Quote Originally Posted by Stupified View Post
I think the thing that makes me most upset about the SMN nerf is that being objective, BLM is the better endgame raiding mage choice. SMN is so much fun and BLM is so zzzz. Now that I need to go BLM for endgame raiding I've lost a lot of interest in this game. SE takes one step forward with patch 2.1 and two steps back with their class "Balancing" decisions, at least as a SMN main.
SMN will still be superior end-game DPS. They still have better utility. The only thing this change has done is let Monks come more to the forefront of ST DPS, which is where they should have been all along, given how weak their AoE potential is. Since ARR was released, SMN has been the king of ST DPS while also having very strong AoE DPS. We will still be #1 in ST DPS on many fights, there will just be more fights where MNK can be competitive, or even beat us.

We were really simply too good. I think we needed a nerf, it is just unfortunate that it had to come in a form that makes the class easier to play.

The Allagan Boots change is really the biggest impact of this patch, and if those i90 EM Primal accessories can't help make up the loss of accuracy, then our BiS set will most definitely suffer.