Quote Originally Posted by Dualgunner View Post
The sheer combined uptime. I'm unable to get in game but devotion not only increases damage but healing too; radiant shield is one of the longest physical dps buffs in the game and boss pending gives tons of added potency damage on top of that. Compare that to blm's nothing and rdm's 1/6 uptime (20s / 2 min) on embolden.
Devotion is 2% on 1/8 affecting 8 people, Embolden is avg 6% on 1/6 affecting 4-5 people. And the way buff stacking works, point is on embo. Plus I don't know if you play SMN but timing it is a bit difficult (come on garuda, it is AN ORDER). So please, devotion is not "amazing". It is good utility. It is as it should have been from the start.

Radiant shield is very good, but only a little better than contagion if you play contagion right. I think the 50 attack works on a cooldown as well (won't hit 8 times if 8 people take an AOE).

So SMN has good utility, but not "amazing", otherwise it would have thrown off meta comp powerful synergy already.

What I find very true that DPS of SMN is 200 to 300 points too high right now and he needs a nerf (but a smart one, a ceiling lowering without affecting the base).

And the opposite for BLM, a 200 to 300 points buff (be it flat potency or a mechanic improvment)

On RDM, a buff also (100- 200 points ?) cause it is true he is treated like a bard while having nowhere near the utility if no one dies.