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[PriyaJugulataris]

Um while most BLM's aren't that angry about it (IMO, It's a change in rotation, though people will judge if it's worth it or not to them.), Bard's received significant nerfs dps wise, regaling them to a support slot that has had it's support function lowered as well. To a class surrounding dots, losing a dot (1/4) is a big deal. So it's not that much of an overreaction. In your tanking land, you paladins were held supreme. Now it's pali/warrior is viable and better. In DPS land, melee dps got buffed damage wise, ranged got debuffed. This results in more relative upheaval. Coupled with the lack of forewarning, and sheer lack of necessity, People are angry.

[MBTL90]

Um while most BLM's aren't that angry about it (IMO, It's a change in rotation, though people will judge if it's worth it or not to them.), Bard's received significant nerfs dps wise, regaling them to a support slot that has had it's support function lowered as well. To a class surrounding dots, losing a dot (1/4) is a big deal. So it's not that much of an overreaction. In your tanking land, you paladins were held supreme. Now it's pali/warrior is viable and better. In DPS land, melee dps got buffed damage wise, ranged got debuffed. This results in more relative upheaval. Coupled with the lack of forewarning, and sheer lack of necessity, People are angry.

"Significant Dps Nerfs"

Blood for Blood:
say baseline damage is 100/sec.
With blood for blood
2400 damage while active(20 sec)
6000 while not(60 sec cd)
8400 total
105 damage/sec

Nerfed
2200 while active
6000 while not
8200 total
102.5 damage/sec

Blood for Blood nerf is about a 3% nerf, and I imagine internal release is less. This also assumes that abilites go on cd as soon as they get used, not after duration, of which I have no clue about. For some reason I never actually checked if this is the case or not. They said they were going to nerf brd dmg, and they did slightly, without changing the class. I honestly thought they were going to add a cast bar to one of the abilites, but all they did was very slightly nerf damage.

[ProxyTooMuch]

"Significant Dps Nerfs"

Blood for Blood nerf is about a 3% nerf, and I imagine internal release is less. This also assumes that abilites go on cd as soon as they get used, not after duration, of which I have no clue about. For some reason I never actually checked if this is the case or not. They said they were going to nerf brd dmg, and they did slightly, without changing the class. I honestly thought they were going to add a cast bar to one of the abilites, but all they did was very slightly nerf damage.

Bards aren't nerfed that badly. Add everything up it amounts to about a 3.75% to 5% damage nerf whereas summoners are looking at a ~7% single target damage nerf. BLM got their aoe damage nerfed quite dramatically (no more Blizz III -> Fire III -> Flare). Virus got nerfed pretty hard, too.

So overall, Coil just got a bit harder.

[Viridiana]

Bards aren't nerfed that badly. Add everything up it amounts to about a 3.75% to 5% damage nerf

We also lost a good bit of the utility that supposedly justified nerfing our already-low dps. . .

Seems like everyone wants to talk about BRD losing one piece or the other, but so few want to talk about how we lost both at the same time.

[NephHalp]

We also lost a good bit of the utility that supposedly justified nerfing our already-low dps. . .

Seems like everyone wants to talk about BRD losing one piece or the other, but so few want to talk about how we lost both at the same time.

The reason for the RoD and virus changes is because of the storm's path change for warrior (10% damage reduction). Groups who were already doing a virus/eye for an eye/RoD rotation could add in a warrior and basically have a constant 20% reduction in damage instead of just 10%.

[Kal-El]

The reason for the RoD and virus changes is because of the storm's path change for warrior (10% damage reduction). Groups who were already doing a virus/eye for an eye/RoD rotation could add in a warrior and basically have a constant 20% reduction in damage instead of just 10%.

^^ Ahhh you beat me to it! This 100%.

I've never had a coil party without a BRD.

No matter how much you got nerfed you'll still be more sought after than melée DPS.

[Viridiana]

The reason for the RoD and virus changes is because of the storm's path change for warrior (10% damage reduction). Groups who were already doing a virus/eye for an eye/RoD rotation could add in a warrior and basically have a constant 20% reduction in damage instead of just 10%.

^^ Ahhh you beat me to it! This 100%.

I've never had a coil party without a BRD.

No matter how much you got nerfed you'll still be more sought after than melée DPS.

Oh, so we have too much utility. Cool, take away our utility, but leave our DPS alone.

Again, I perfectly understand nerfing one aspect or the other. That they hit both is what makes me wonder why.

[YuiSasaki]

BLM got their aoe damage nerfed quite dramatically (no more Blizz III -> Fire III -> Flare).

Who'd use a full mana flare to begin with....

[Sleigh]

Who'd use a full mana flare to begin with....

There are some rotations, optimal ones from my testing in fact, that base AoE around Flare. It's not about having full MP, it's about being in Umbral Ice III to get faster cast times on both your Fire III or Flare (with the double Flare method being taken away in 2.1) and then again faster cast time on Flare. It is/was quite effective, more so than Fire II rotations.

[Leiron]

Blood for Blood nerf is about a 3% nerf, and I imagine internal release is less. This also assumes that abilites go on cd as soon as they get used, not after duration, of which I have no clue about. For some reason I never actually checked if this is the case or not. They said they were going to nerf brd dmg, and they did slightly, without changing the class. I honestly thought they were going to add a cast bar to one of the abilites, but all they did was very slightly nerf damage.

They also changed Heavy thrust to provide a 15% damage buff instead of 10%.
There were a few changes that upped the overall DPS for a DRG and MNK but the other DPS classes pretty much got nerfed slightly.