Bard - they broke my job

[Bman10119]

My only gripe is how WEAK and useless sidewinder is. 60 second cooldown for an ability that only gets decent potentcy from having both dots up, and still is out damaged by a single empyreal arrow, or all the bloodletters you can use in its cooldown window. its a depressingly weak ability. why did they nerf it?

[SlyRoyale]

My only gripe is how WEAK and useless sidewinder is. 60 second cooldown for an ability that only gets decent potentcy from having both dots up, and still is out damaged by a single empyreal arrow, or all the bloodletters you can use in its cooldown window. its a depressingly weak ability. why did they nerf it?

Wanderer's Minuet +30% damage buff more or less makes the potency decrease hardly noticeable. After the boost is factored in, Sidewinder is about 130 potency vanilla, about 233 with one DoT up, and roughly 333 with both up.

[Linadae]

My only gripe is how WEAK and useless sidewinder is. 60 second cooldown for an ability that only gets decent potentcy from having both dots up, and still is out damaged by a single empyreal arrow, or all the bloodletters you can use in its cooldown window. its a depressingly weak ability. why did they nerf it?

To keep us from playing pre-52 Bard. They wanted a clear line stating that Wander's minuet is what you're supposed to use and if you don't want to use it then you're bad and you should feel bad.

Which is why I no longer play bard and am currently looking for a new class to play. So far...nothing has interested me. Might wait till the next expansion and see if they come out with something that isn't Bow/Gun mage.

[Tharian]

Bow/Gun mage.

You know... I think this is the fundamental problem here... people are trying to force the Bard and Machinist to fill the same basic role as the Gunner from Final Fantasy X-2... when it seems that the Developers would prefer that the Bard and Machinist fill a role that more closely resembles the Gun Mage from the same game.

[yamochan]

well in the end its rly not what the developers want the class to be its what the player wants to play if the bowmage as it is does not suit someone he will reroll. if there are no classes that you like anymore players will wait for some changes if those changes dont come players will quit. its rly that simple actually ^^ guess why we lost a good lot of ppl already.
i for myself am putting up with the bowmage right now i dont like it and i dont like any other class cause well they are all the same now range wise (BLM, Bowmage, Gunmage and Dotmage) but i dont want to leave my raid hanging.
i dont know how many other ppl will do the same ...