I'm disgusted with the bard nerf.

[gadzi_h]

I would really disagree here, and it really doesn't make much sense considering the new Hawk's Eye is pretty much going to give all of our skills used during the buff 100% accuracy.

200 TP is an insane amount of TP to invest into a 10% evasion down.

You can get a free RoD from using Wide Volley - 15% chance. So on occasion when you are spamming mobs you will get the buff for free.

[Laf]

As i Dragoon i agree with the bard nerf, I was doing my rotation perfectly against Titan, and i was getting outdps by a low geared bard... You are supposed to be a support class...
Good Job Square Enix. Hope you dont revert that nerf !

You didn't read thread, did you? BRD's dps is hardly effected after this "nerf". 1 useful support skill is killed thou...

but why -10% to evasion, debuff is useless... -10% to mobs acc would be much better.

[Kevanov]

You didn't read thread, did you? BRD's dps is hardly effected after this "nerf". 1 useful support skill is killed thou...

- Blood for blood reduced to 10% in cross-job.
- Internal release reduced from 20% to 10% in cross job.

Yeah its true that the damage reduction was better than the evasion, i mean dps isnt as important as damage reduction for most fight.
I dont understand this change but for all the other changes, I agree with SE.

[Xellos2099]

This thread is mainly about the rod change. Rest we can live with

[Kirschey]

wrong thread. hue

[Laf]

SE could do some adjustments to base damage and songs to make BRD a more proper support class, but I guess they just don't care.

[Wolf_Gang]

It's an indirect buff to DPS, since you won't have to spam Rain of Death.

Group still get the affect if they bring a WAR tank.

[Sephir]

This thread is mainly about the rod change. Rest we can live with

Yes. I can accept the dps nerf but the ROD nerf nope!

It totally sucks and it's going in the wrong direction for a supposed half-support class like bards.

Please remove this s**t.

[Emblemelite]

RoD nerf is actually a buff. Now that WAR takes care of the debuff you don't need to spend TP for it anymore. What's there to be angry about?

I can just tell most people who post here have never ever ever ever cleared Turn 5. I'm going to tell you where the BRD debuff for RoD is going to be missed the most.
Surviving that first gigaflare from Twintania with 1-2 people having a couple stacks on them. I want to see a WAR run over to Twintania and put the debuff on her then run back to the neurolink. It was always nice to be able to apply the debuff from within the neurolink, but I guess I can live without seeing as how its the only time I use the ability.

[DBR]

Just one less thing I am expected to do, I'm fine with losing it.

But I don't know why they bothered giving it an evasion debuff as a replacement instead of simply bringing its TP cost down to a reasonable level, its not something that will ever have a use thanks to being able to cap accuracy.