Does anyone think the Swiftcast nerf was too harsh for BLM?

[Fainto]

This nerf was purely meant to make it harder for BLMs to essentially oneshot people... Before this change you could do like 5k damage in 7 seconds... with only 2 hard casted spells.

Raging Strikes > Fire III (hard cast) > Phantom Dart > Fire (40% chance for proc) > Fire III > Swiftcast + Flare

Healing through this is difficult since you don't realize big damage is coming until that first Fire I hits... with a 40 percent chance that after it hits it will be followed up with something like 3.5-4k damage in the next 3 seconds. Only way around this is to lustrate/bene the person being focused and you only get a very short amount of time to do it. Honestly, even with the nerf, this combo is deadly because the flare will STILL be as high potency as a Fester and the combo of Fire III + Flare will still do considerable damage.