Ninja Bard nerf?

[Norbi]

Well this is disappointing.

[Daenerys_Sedai]

I was equipping my BRD with DL and all that fun stuff. This is indeed disappointing.

[Iymala]

It is shady that they did not announce thee changes. I know the community was not happy with the Bard changes they announced, but they accepted them. To further nerf Bard damage... and not post anything about it in their notes... just poor business.

[Grimner]

Wow. Even though we're already the lowest DPS class I was planning to stick with my BRD after the announced nerfs. But this... looks like it's time to finish leveling my WAR.

[KaosuNoTenshi]

So, our Zenith is the lower DPS, we're getting nerfed with the X-Skills and now they Ninja Nerf our Skill's Potency??

Ok, I think is time to get MNK to Lv50, BRD isn't usefull anymore... Thanks...

[Idlehand]

Thanks Yoshi, The BRDs of FFXIV appreciate your love.

[Soulburn32]

I don't know how you guys didn't see this coming. They didn't tell us about these changes but the writing was on the wall.

1 BRD per group was going to be the new normal setup.

1 PLD | 1 WAR | 1 WHM | 1 SCH | 2 Caster DPS | 1 Melee (DRG/MNK) | 1 BRD

[Hotsauce]

RiP bard. This is just unacceptable. Do they not realize they are killing a whole class by doing this? Casuals complain brd dps is too high. Yoshi listens to masses and nerfs bards to basically be "mana bitches".

[AkashiXI]

This is terrible. Coupled with the huge buffs Melee DPS got, and our already nerf to CC AND utility, what reason is there to bring a BRD? I hope SE explains the nerf to our skill potency =/

[RyuDragnier]

I don't know how you guys didn't see this coming. They didn't tell us about these changes but the writing was on the wall.

1 BRD per group was going to be the new normal setup.

1 PLD | 1 WAR | 1 WHM | 1 SCH | 2 Caster DPS | 1 Melee (DRG/MNK) | 1 BRD

Here's the problem, 8 man parties won't feel much of a sting from this, but what about 4 mans? All of the burden now falls on the other DPS to pick up the DPS we can no longer bring as well, and a 2 Bard group will now guarantee a really hard time in a 4-man dungeon, they won't be able to kill fast enough. And if you happen to enter anything that requires fast DPSing, heaven forbid if you have Bard anywhere near it. This nerf may have not killed us, but it sure as hell put the rest of the party at risk because we as a class can no longer pull the level of DPS we once could. The RoD nerf did enough to our ability to support. But adding ninja nerfs on top of it? Our ability to support just hit rock bottom.