Rain of Death was not nerfed. Bard is becoming what it was intended to be.

[Sinth]

If bard can lower an enemy's evasion by 10% he is inherently reducing the required Acc of the party. This allows the party to make additional choices in gear (less acc, more secondary stats). I believe this change affirms the Bard's role as a support job and when used in the sense I described above can provide the party with 10% more stats allocated in areas other than accuracy. If this isn't support, I don't know what is. This is a huge buff to bards (or at least the groups they are in) in end-game content.

[NeonC]

Im not casting rod, not even if you ask nicely.

[DKage]

What if it's free?

[NeonC]

If it's free sure, why not. It still cost 180 and can not be kept up the full fight. Basically making it useless.

[Rayokarna]

I'm still wondering when support classes were introduced. When ever I check my class it says DPS...

[Grembo]

I'm still wondering when support classes were introduced. When ever I check my class it says DPS...

lol, is the term DPS actually used even once anywhere in the game?

[Rayokarna]

lol, is the term DPS actually used even once anywhere in the game?

Duty Finder.

[Maxu]

is 10% damage off of the tank suddenly not support or something? i guess not! also 180 TP a pop to keep up -evasion for the 3-4 other dps so they can wear different gear isn't happening.

[Maku]

Actually Yoshida has said many times that the BRD is a DPS that simply has supportive skills. It is not a support class. They have not balanced the game to have a support class. RoD is too pricy even at 180 to provide 100% unless the BRD did NOTHING else in which case the other DPS with their 10% worth of other stats would not be able to make up for our loss in DPS from having to do nothing.

[Songi]

Figures this topic was made by a Dragoon. As much as I like Dragoons most of their playerbase doesn't know how to think before they post.