Quote Originally Posted by Rahspdoy View Post
But what if your a bard? You know how Bloodletter gets to 'skip' its cooldown right? Its based off your Dots 'critting'. Your dots critting are based off your crit chance. How much 'more' damage are you going to do using Bloodletter 4 times vs only 2? How about Repertoire? Same thing, its based of your dot critting, which is based off Crit chane. Does Balance help that? No.. Spear does. A Balance cycled for the 150% boost effect to use on a Spear helps even more.

While I play BRD or MNK with a fellow AST, Spear will always feel way more empowering and much more noticeable than Balance would ever be, or playing Tank with a Bole and enemies doing no damage, they just didn't ruin fun for AST players, they also did it for all the other players who loved getting buffed by them, MNK just lost IR so Spear would have been their new substitution.