I'm disgusted with the bard nerf.

[Yoruichi4478]

IS reducing enemy evasion by 10% equals to increase accuracy by 10% too?if it is, well thats quite a buff u know esp with some nerf to BiS gears with tons of accuracy

Ask all the tanks you currently know if they would prefer 10% reduced attack dmg vs 10% reduced evasion and also ask if they've ever seen what they're hitting show an eva msg in their log. I've never heard any tank on my server say the boss/mob has too much eva.
At least now brds will be able to use the tp they would've used for the current effect of RoD for more single target rotations.

[Valanthe_Liadon]

The Japanese patch notes said that RoD's TP cost got reduced to 180. (Google Translated it)

[Lunavi]

This is bull. I am ok with a nerf in their DPS to make them support, but this is just bull. What people asked for was to make BRD more support focused. This does not fix that. Only makes them worse in all fields :/

[MisakiSatomi]

No one runs out of TP to make Paeon useful at all.

What? Monks run out of TP in 1-3 minutes.

[Gaddes]

Maybe this is their tactic to make people playing BRD switch to musketeer when it comes out? The nerf is really pretty lame... I'm glad BRD is just my secondary job. :\

[Amocoru]

We aren't really support though. We can't heal anyone (outside our LB), we can't raise in battle, we can't make others stronger (other than offensive casters).
No one runs out of TP to make Paeon useful at all. The really need to fix that song, not nerf RoD.

No one runs out of TP? Do you even RUN coil? >.> If I were you I'd be more concerned about Virus rotations being completely and totally shut down. Bosses are going to sit on our faces now

[Razla]

I don't mind the DPS nerfs. I was expecting to see Blood for Blood vanish completely. If anything, I was expecting less DPS and more movement towards support.

But Rain of Death? WTH? People complained we should be more support than DPS. So.. come the patch, we lose a tiny bit of burst DPS... and completely lose a SUPPORT ability? What is up with -10% evasion? That's utterly pointless.

Some people said it would be useful for members who didn't have enough accuracy. That's not very comparable. If it were being used for a lack of accuracy, the BRD would have to try to keep it for most of the fight. As it were pre-patch, BRD would only need to throw up RoD at certain points in time to cover a mob's burst damage (i.e. Titan tumults).

I use Rain of Death all of the time in Endgame content.. specifically P5 Titan HM, Caduceus' splits, Dreadknoughts, and Twintania. Even better when stacked with Virus... and Virus got nerfed too?

BRD got dumbed down. x_x

[Yoruichi4478]

I used Rain of Death at key moments to help mitigate certain moves that could cause critical dmg and/or death. Oh and if you don't have enough acc and u expect a brd to use rod now to compensate, nu uh. Go get your acc gear and get acc food. It is your responsibility to be properly and adequately geared for the content you're wanting to do. Giving what we used to do with RoD to a war is all well and good on single targets but please correct me if I'm wrong since I don't play war, but the move they have with our old RoD description, is it part of a single target rotation or does it go with an aoe ws of theirs?

[Aegis]

Yoshi-P explained the rationale for the ROD nerf a couple of weeks ago.

Bard is the go-to class for any content. They were too useful, could perform too many functions, so one function (mitigating incoming damage) was taken away.

Be thankful it wasn't silence.

[MichiKyou]

I understand it being too useful. But to remove the evrsitility instead of making otherclasses more versitile?
That's a little silly. The game doesnt have a public test server, so the community and dedicated players cant actually give feedback on the classes. The devs miss things. Hopeuflly they'll balance this.. you know.
in.. 2-3 months in the next patch.

grumble grumble.