Do bards deserve all the nerf ?

[bardaboo]

Let's not forget about the cross class skill changes too. They took away a lot of our damage output potential (considering I'd have to pop all my cooldowns to come close to grabbing agro in a single mob fight with a decent tank seems unnecessary). Which I wouldn't mind if they were attempting to make bards focus more on support. But gimping some of our support abilities too? That makes no sense. Pick ONE thing to change. And considering that you can't be a source of continual support, it's nice to be able to do damage. But now our only source of support is our songs (which drains our mp and can only be used once during any boss fight) bards are a lot less useful. Maybe add more songs? Like upping healing power by even 5 percent could be a nice addition. Or making mobs more likely to recieve crits. Who knows. I'll still play bard.

[Black91CRX]

My DPS had dropped pretty bad since patch. Even my FC mates commented on it while running Manor HM. It's pretty bad when they can tell a difference.

[Warlyx]

we did turn1-4 today i noticed that i did (As brd) less dmg than before....but the mnk , did way better dmg so ...what we lost was gained by the monk....

we probably are going to be BRDless next week ( for turn 1-4) , to see how faster we clean it. healers aren having mp problems in those turns

*Turn 2 is silenced by the 2 plds

[NeruMew]

we did turn1-4 today i noticed that i did (As brd) less dmg than before....but the mnk , did way better dmg so ...what we lost was gained by the monk....

we probably are going to be BRDless next week ( for turn 1-4) , to see how faster we clean it. healers aren having mp problems in those turns

*Turn 2 is silenced by the 2 plds

If they properly fixed latency, we shouldn't have issues with silencing anymore. From what I've played (only Ultima fight) new latency seems to work perfectly fine. We'll have to see though. (casts are still clunky, but atleast now you don't get hit by shit once you're out... though I noticed quite a huge fix to this a while ago, it was still rocky at times).