Quote Originally Posted by Sparkthor View Post
MCH was pretty popular on HW, but it's popularity was probably heavily tied for being part of the best (and only) top raid compo back in time : WAR, DRK, AST, SCH, NIN, DRG, BRD, MCH.
It's kinda strange : bow and gun mage were heavily turned down but performances were here so played.

I however wonder how people can think EW BRD to be the worst iteration as it stricly better than ShB one :
- Loss of many bloodletter/rain due to having one charge, so full CD reset hardly happen and double proc were wasted.
- Need to apply DOT on target in case of mutlti target situation.
- Having dot to roll in not better than having a song active.
- Not being buffed by it's own party abilities.
- Being a 80s rotation job which never/poorly align with standard 2/3min party cd, and never with reopener at 6min.
-Charges were beneficial no ones gonna argue this
-DOTs retaining no synergy isnt a pro at all, and dungeons are less fun now that you cant spam AA or RoD 5 times a second. Making Soul voice very very static as a gauge, borderline contrived even now that it only doesn't accumulate soul if no songs are running and its as trivial as the DNC step execution.
-Having a dot to roll in takes more effort than having ur songs active. making the job less punishing and easier/routine/boring
-tangibly I never cared about this complaint as it only adds something to the invisible measure of dps only parsers can see and is irrelevant in all none dps check content. Plays the same with or without
-Fair

Adding Sidewinder is boring to use, a dot checker is no reduced to fleche. but im not entirely down on EW BRD just needs a few additions to be the most fun ranger with laughable competition from the other 2 jobs ppl main "because i dont have to think"