Crystalline Conflict Tier List (with deep maths!)

[Myrha_Lhlalheva]

You're literally just proving their point about what they said in the 2nd thing you replied to.
BRD burst is so valuable because they can combo silence with it and other jobs can help to instantly kill the picks for it before the status effect drops (provided that the target has already used purify and can be CCd with no resistance), this is why NIN+BRD in LP is a very common 2 picks to bring (though there is other combos as well) because NIN and BRD can 100-0 anyone within a silence. Obviously strats like that are rarer in Solo Q because there's no voice comms, but you can still callout who you silence with a Quickchat/Target Marker macro, or even just silencing the person everyone is hitting so they can't recupe or guard through the bursts and die faster. You heavily underestimate the potential of BRD.

How is timing crowd control with Nocturne different from timing crowd control with literally anyone else? I've had the silence discussion before, but even then--why isn't everyone crying bloody murder about White Shift Resolution? It does quadruple the damage that Nocturne ever did, retains its 25y range, and now lays down the same duration silence but in an AoE, all on the exact same cooldown.

I do very much agree with what Aisi said about BRD's good burst availability--I think THAT'S its real strength. Having access to your burst almost on demand with very little immediate setup is very valuable. But let's not pretend that the number available is particularly high. Saying that you can 100-0 anyone when Seiton does literally 50% of the work is a bit odd, isn't it? And saying that crowd control secures kills when someone has no purify is borderline unnecessary, I think I could've figured that one out.

Just read everything you've written there. It's like 4 instances of "BRD can help its team kill people", not "BRD can kill people." It's not a burst powerhouse one-shot wonder, it's good at helping secure kills that your team couldn't otherwise complete. Does that mean it should be rated highly when comparing single-target burst capability? If I press my entire kit to include LB and I cannot solo kill a SGE/BLM if they press Recuperate even one (1) time, do I say that I'm one of the heaviest bursters in the game? I'd say no, but if you want to say yes then feel free.