BRD Charged Actions and update work

[Grimoire-M]

The Crit system was actually better. Stormblood Crit Chance ranged from around 35% up to 40% by the end of the expansion which is pretty close to where we are now at 40%. However, Chain Stratagem and Battle Litany meant that every now and then we could spike our Crit Chance for a bigger burst phase, and it encouraged intelligent snapshotting of our DoTs on buffs. The flat rate works fine, just makes things boring since we are unable to influence it. Nothing was more entertaining than a big opener with tons of Crit Chance.

I have to disagree with this vehemently. The problem with SB Bard was precisely its reliance on crit chance. It made the class extremely dependent on specific raid compositions to shine. It’s not that it doesn’t feel good, but the fact it could shoot from top to bottom DPS based on whether a DRG was present (Piercing wasn’t the ONLY reason DRG/BRD was busted) was extremely annoying. That’s why I said Raging Strikes should buff Repertoire’s proc rate if we got a static proc rate from ShB's changes (which, we did). Any numbers SE went with would eventually feel unimpressive because we didn’t have that burst window to work with like before.

EDIT: Other than that, I think we agree though, including Bard needing charges and not much else. I'm happy with how they play, though I would add that using Ballad would still leak damage unless you adjusted the proc to reduce Bloodletter's cooldown by around 10-12s instead of granting a charge outright. The slight loss of potential prevents the ugly situation where you get back to back double procs and lose a charge. And erring lower on the cooldown reduction would also account for the fact it would happen more frequently with the Raging Strikes change I've mentioned above. This goes double for Quick Nock's proc, which contributes to a ton of leaked damage with AoE otherwise.