Are role actions a nerf?

[TaranTatsuuchi]

Looking forward to, 'Rescuing,' a DPS running ahead of the Tank now. Mwuha!

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I got the impression that one of trhe requirements to use it was that the player(s?) were on a monster's enmity list.
Thus, it's an in combat only skill.

Apparently it looks like bloodbath, mercy stroke are gone. It does seem like a nerf, but many things were rebalanced so we wont know until patch day.

I think I saw some katakana that I thought was Bloodbath on the melee dps role abilities...

I'd have to crawl back through the stream to be certain though.