Thread: My only issue as a bard in 2.1

Bards have taken quite the nerf in 2.1. To be honest I am HAPPY about it, no way I wanted my Bard to be a heavy damage dealer, so everything makes sense to make sure they wouldn't be dealing as much with their cross-class skills.

The only issue I have with the changes made in 2.1 is the "nerf" or "modification" made to RAIN OF DEATH.

First off, what good is that change when you are leveling up ? You get Rain of Death at level 45. You don't MISS anything at level 45, nor do I miss anything at level 50 running Coil. So the skill becomes a useless skill for a Bard playing solo.

If you are in a situation where you are trying to hit monsters (a pack cause rain of death is aoe), and you are missing A LOT on that PACK of monsters, you probably DON'T BELONG IN THE DUNGEON YOU ARE IN.
1 Boss/Mob that dodges a lot I would understand, but why have an AOE skill remedy 1 issue that 1 unit is causing.

Wouldn't it be better for the skill to be a -5% damage and -5% Evasion ?

Rain of death isn't to help you. It's to help others that have trouble reaching the accuracy cap.

Originally Posted by LunarEmerald

Rain of death isn't to help you. It's to help others that have trouble reaching the accuracy cap.

Which is like... nobody who should be actually doing said content.

Maybe bards should have the damage penalty from songs removed now.

I believe the damange penalty from songs is good. Actually it should be applied to ALL SONGS, but make the songs better. Rain of death needs to go back to something more helpful, anything basically. Could even be -10% resistance for 20 seconds, increasing your party damage. The -10% evasion is the worst possible debuff that the skill could get.

Until 4 man content is removed, there is no room for a support role, SE can balance 2 melee and 2 mage ranged dps, but get an Archer in the mix they have no Clue what to do.

SE planned classes while drunk, and made them in the dark...

Originally Posted by Phai

Until 4 man content is removed, there is no room for a support role, SE can balance 2 melee and 2 mage ranged dps, but get an Archer in the mix they have no Clue what to do.

SE planned classes while drunk, and made them in the dark...

Even 5 man, a pure support is a waste over a 3rd DPSer. It's only in large groups, aka raids, that pure support vastly outweighs the loss of a DPS overall. Depending on the support abilities of course. Starting to think that outside coil (inside if party geared enough) better to roll as ARC and be more versatile as DPS due to the increased number of cross class skills as compared to BRDs with support buffs that for the majority of content are wasted slots on the action bars.

Agreeing with OP. No idea what SE is doing. Claims to nerf bard because bard can support and damage is OP (really?).

Okay, nerf BfB from 20% to 10% is fine, but RoD?

Honestly, at times in coil, I think our WHM manages her MP well. And thus the 10% damage reduction were more used/useful than Mage's Ballad lol.