Rejoice ninjas!

[Kaze3434]

Not that sad at it. Just using this as an example for "but you dont buff another class by nerfing"

kind of a bad example. they didnt nerf bard to buff anything else. they did it to balance the class. remember, they made changes to blood for blood at that time too.

[ExiaQuanta]

If the Bard example was true, then they wouldn't have done separate buffs for Monk and Dragoon. Bard had too much, that's why your example doesn't hold up.

they couldve just left bard as is and mega buff melees o3o

[Seoki]

You wont be getting nerfed and I don't know why people were expecting a change in a x.x1 patch.

IF for whatever reason you're getting nerfed it will be during a x.x5 or x.x8 patch.

But as I stated that will probably not happen.

They are going to increase DRG's potencies to make them the burst melee they should be and move on.

[Danbo05]

Just make Dragoons able to cross class skills with Rogues instead of Marauders, utility problem solved. Think about it. You get Perfect Dodge AND Goad (and Death Blossom, but nobody cares about 60 potency AOE). You just gotta hit that perfect dodge before hitting jump. 8D

[Fynlar]

People had a hard time telling the difference between Shadow Fang and Dancing Edge? o_o

I never confused those two.

[Lemuel81]

glad to see ninjas didnt get a nerf after all. Was hoping drg would get their buffs tho

[Nalien]

I never confused those two.

I can see how they'd be confusing (especially for console players who're likely to be further from their monitor), but what I don't get is why people needed to get confused by them...

The only icon I ever check for is "Has the Warrior put Storm's Eye up?", other than that Ninjas rotation is such that I never really needed to check if Shadow Fang/Mutilate/Dancing Edge were wearing off beyond initially learning the Job.

[KitanaiKoneko]

Sorry, this isn't Guild Wars 2, nerfing one class does not some how buff another. If anything, that nerfs entire parties since they can no longer do as much as they once could in content. Stick with waiting for your buffs sir, you don't want the entire community despising DRGs just because they led to NIN getting nerfed.

Not exactly. You can have classes that are overpowered across levels of content. In this case a nerf to the strong would be a buff to the weak.

Example: PLD vs WAR in 2.0 -> 2.1, SE could have given only a slight buff to war and then brought PLD down to the level they raised WAR to. Would have had the same effect as straight buffing WAR. And WARs had cleared all 2.0 content in 2.0 so don't say it would have ruined everything and we'd all be stuck on caduceus.

[PArcher]

This patch wasn't for class changes.

Just wait til 2.45. Drg buffs and NIN nerfs are still incoming

[PArcher]

And WARs had cleared all 2.0 content in 2.0 so don't say it would have ruined everything and we'd all be stuck on caduceus.

I seem to recall when WAR cleared t5 back then they got no praise, but their healers sure did. And it was only the best of the best WAR who ran coil in the best statics then since no one else would take them.

WAR were beyond broke back then. A slight buff and a nerf to Pld would not have had the same effect.