Christmas in May

[DioK]

Maybe that's just bad luck because 0 -> Crystal twice on BRD I never just got melted and frequently entered melee for various reasons. But time will tell.

It is true, you don’t get melted as easily in CC, if you play well, but that's cause there are far fewer enemies in that case. However, in FL, yes, you melt like butter in a blast furnace if you try to fight at 15 yalms or less on bard. Even worse, now that they've dropped the DR.

[Elfidan]

Yeah but nobody should really be running around alone in FL either. I can't really speak to being squishy there either. It's probably just a difference of play group and play style.

[DioK]

Yeah but nobody should really be running around alone in FL either. I can't really speak to being squishy there either. It's probably just a difference of play group and play style.

Not talking about running around solo (which is an extremely bad idea for a bard to do, imo). However, even with a large group, getting within 15 yalms of the battle-front is very dangerous for bard. There are times you find yourself within that range, cause that’s just the nature of battle, but you generally don’t want to just hangout within that range. You want to get out of that 15 yalm circle as fast as possible.

[Llynethil]

When you think about it, the silence nerf is a stealth drk buff in fl aswell, before you could easily silence before they got their combo going when you saw them running towards your raid, now you have to just wait for everyone to get caught and silence after the draw in has happened to be safe enough.

[Esmoire]

I take back some of my praise for the patch. SAM buff was a bad call.

[Novani]

The SAM buff literally just tries to compensate for the server being absolute garbage at debuff application. I say tries, 9/10 not only does it refuse to register the debuff's existence, but still also insists on ridiculous Line of Sight rules that are a complete mystery to anyone who didn't code it. People right next to each other with the debuff? Nah, can't be bothered to execute them too.

It's almost like we're right back where we started with that, minus any meaningful defense since that seems to only apply arbitrarily too. And put in the environment as is right now... just why.

Edit: Ah yes I forgot, also cases where the LB actually does a literal nothing in damage or execution despite debuffs, how careless of me to forget that game rule. Great rule.

[TheGrimace]

Santa gave me a stocking full of coal.