Do SMN and BRD need 2 DoTs?

[HyoMinPark]

Oh this was a thing? I only played as early as 2.0 and they only skill I remember losing was that "needle-like" rain of arrows

Flaming Arrow was a 30s ground AOE that dealt damage over time to all who went into it. It was on a 60s cooldown and could snapshot raid buffs. It was a part of BRD from 2.0 to the end of HW. They removed it going into Stormblood.

If you’re talking about Rain of Death, BRD still has that.

Im not advocating for the dumbing down of summoner or bard, I’m highlighting that there are redundant skills.

Simplifying them into a single button is dumbing them down. BRD already lost enough of its complexity going into ShB—it really doesn’t need to lose anything else.