Blood Letter and Straight shot

[Naberrie]

This is why I waited till after 2.1 to do any serious end game gearing, even when people were telling me I needed to gear my BRD ASAP. Nah, I'll wait to see what kind of nerf bat SE hits BRD with. I knew something was coming.

Wonder if I can quit that relict reborn quest and do another job instead...

I hope it is a tooltip error, but I played FFXI. I've seen this before.

[Brady672]

While I don't think these nerfs were required in the slightest, I think they're setting up Bard for the inevitable "Hybrid" role that Bard is already supposedly filling.

I'd be totally okay if they buffed their actual support with this nerf, but nada :/

[Billzey]

It is a tooltip error. Heavy shot and bloodletter still do the same damage.

[Cupcakesu]

Yep, Bloodletter is still hitting the same as Heavy Shot with 150 Potency.

[Zafrei]

I think they're setting up Bard for the inevitable "Hybrid" role that Bard is already supposedly filling.

I'd be totally okay if they buffed their actual support with this nerf, but nada :/

Logical sadly, I hope not though. While I enjoy the additional support role being tacked on, I chose archer because I enjoy being a damage dealing archer, take that away and there isn't another class that appeals anywhere near as much.

It is a tooltip error. Heavy shot and bloodletter still do the same damage.

Hoping it's this!

[am0n]

While I don't think these nerfs were required in the slightest, I think they're setting up Bard for the inevitable "Hybrid" role that Bard is already supposedly filling.

I'd be totally okay if they buffed their actual support with this nerf, but nada :/

Except that it won't work. SE hasn't provisioned for a support class in their party makeups. It's 1 Tank, 1 Healer, 2 DPS (and multiples of this ratio). If you drop out one of the DPS for a support, either they need to be solid enough DPS that they aren't really support, or provide so much party buffing that it becomes almost obscene in an 8 Man when people break the pattern and bring an extra DPS instead of an extra support. If they had 5 man parties (Tank, Healer, 2xDPS, Support), then I absolutely think it could work, especially if they balanced content around this from the get-go.