Thoughts on class changes?

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Since oddly enough there is no discussion about it yet, and the patch notes are out.

RDM buff is so tiny, I don't know what else we could have expected.
BLM and WHM AoE nerfed for less than 4 targets. Yuppy.

Ummm. You misread those. BLM and WHM were buffed, not nerfed...

The reduction of potency is fixed to 25% of max potency after the first mob. aka the skills do 75% damage to all additional enemies. Not 25% dmg to all additional enemies.

[Tlamila]

Ummm. You misread those. BLM and WHM were buffed, not nerfed...

No. It's a fixed reduction of 25% after the first enemy. So "10% less for the second, 20% less for the third," now becomes 25% less. Only from the 4th target on it's a buff.

I actually read it as a buff too at first, but someone made me notice it wasn't.

[Packetdancer]

No. It's a fixed reduction of 25% after the first enemy. So "10% less for the second, 20% less for the third," now becomes 25% less. Only from the 4th target on it's a buff.

I actually read it as a buff too at first, but someone made me notice it wasn't.

I mean, yes, but I find that generally I'm either targeting one thing with Misery during a boss fight (in which case this changes absolutely nothing) or I'm targeting one of about eight mobs all huddled into a pile trying to chew on the tank's face after a wall-to-wall pull, in which case this ends up being a net buff in terms of damage to the entire cluster. In the scenario where you have only a handful of mobs, yeah, it's a nerf, but I think in common use cases—at least in my common use cases—it's going to work out as worst-case a total wash, and best case a buff.