Quote Originally Posted by Viridiana View Post
27 October to 9 December. That was how long DRG was a burden in FCoB. That's a day over 5 weeks. Unless you're going to try to count all of SCoB or something. Meanwhile, SMN has been a burden for the last, oh, I dunno, 17 weeks. That's over three times as long. And Kona, you're still ignoring the fact that i130 gear was always going to solve DRG's being a burden.

Editing to add in times for WAR and BLM:

WAR was in a bad spot from launch to 2.1. 20 August to 14 December is 16 weeks. That's faster than SMN if SMN were fixed with tonight's maintenance. BLM was lacking in SCOB from 26 March to 7 July. That's less than 14 weeks; which, again, is faster than SMN would be if SMN were fixed tonight. And by comparison, DRG took 5 weeks. So, yes, compared to the other two, DRG was fixed quickly. And if SMN has to wait for 3.0 it'll be a bit over 20 weeks to fix one class.
DRG had been noticably weaker than MNK (roughly 8% which is comparable to the situation of SMN and BLM now) since launch of the game, thats 1 and a half years.
Everyone knew that DRG was weak, it only became really apparent with the introduction of NIN.

The fix wasnt quick at all. Lets hope it doesnt take them that long with SMN.