Thread: BARD 2.1 change [requesting letter from the producer explanation]

Originally Posted by Emblemelite

I love how you can just tell who in here is and isnt clearing Turn 5 on a a weekly basis. I bet 90% of the people saying RoD nerf isnt a big deal have never lived through a gigaflare on Twintania.

Two things:

1.) Warrior now gets a 10% damage reduction on one of its abilities, for nearly a quarter of the cost of RoD. RoD has effectively been moved to Warrior, helping out the "stack Paladin" situation.

2.) Limit Break bars fill slower with stacked classes coming in 2.1. Combine this with #1 and bring a Paladin/Warrior combination into Twintania is a great idea, and quite needed.

Yah, Bard was nerfed on that respect. But Twintania becoming harder to defeat because your RoD got nerfed isn't really the problem. If anything the Virus nerf is what's going to make DS more dangerous now.

1) not entirely true...Warrior got this buff after a combo and it's a single target skill. We had a direct AOE skill. Things are a little bit different. It was a huge skill when your healers or tank had problems even with big pulls of mobs.

2) this is another stupid change they made...at least they could add after the first couple of members with the same class. It's not always easy to find a full variagated party.

Originally Posted by pandabearcat

Since it costs 200 TP, does like, 100 potency damage, i'm going to go with "hell no".

That was my guess

On the flipside then: Does the bard not having to worry about RoD uptime provide any meaningful improvement to their damage?

Originally Posted by Sylari

That was my guess

On the flipside then: Does the bard not having to worry about RoD uptime provide any meaningful improvement to their damage?

Yup. I don't play Bard, but that's still 200TP kept in a Bard's pocket.

Warrior becomes useful in a party composition, and Bard can focus on DPS.

Originally Posted by Curcio

Yup. I don't play Bard, but that's still 200TP kept in a Bard's pocket.

Warrior becomes useful in a party composition, and Bard can focus on DPS.

"Focus on DPS" that just got nerfed even though it was already the lowest of any DD at endgame...
That's not exactly a consolation prize that is going to make Bards feel any better about RoD.

Maybe the evasion down thing increase the critical hit chance? I am wishfully thinking that it would. Or maybe maybe in the future there will be some bosses that will increase their evasion like a buff so RoD will be useful.

Originally Posted by Cupcakesu

In a good end-game party, a Bard has nothing worth bringing to the table over other classes except a quick Silence and emergency MP.

Yupp those are our superior Puzzle Pieces !

I wish they've buffed our Songs though ...nerfing cross class buffs, removing RoD's sweet effect. It's a big nerf to us.

But hey at least we didn't got nearly incapacitated like SMN (joking, though it's sad)