Quote Originally Posted by Tilgung View Post
No ranged classes were ruined. At all. The hits you took were relatively small. SMN is still a ST/Cleaving monster. BLM annihilates every other class in AoE and still has great ST damage.

Bards took the biggest hit. Mostly in utility I suppose, losing RoD's damage reduction. The CD nerf (the only damage nerf, Heavy Shot and Straight Shot 'nerf' are toolkit errors) was figured to be ~7% damage loss. You've still got the best uptime and utility.
A shame they changed out RoD's effect, because now I'm never really using it unless it's for the free proc. I never really use my songs either, because the TP one is worthless unless I myself need it (I can't see people's TP bars), the MP one is really only for WHM, and the Requiem is only for BLM. Some utility class we are, all our utility is worthless for helping except in really specific circumstances.