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Brd is apparently busted atm so there’s that

Busted good or bad?

Good

It shits on both mch and dnc

In relative DPS? Or personal as well?

Not that it really matters since it’s the start of an expac and things will change and it’s not like the others are bad

Based on the damage it brings to the group

So relative I guess

Okay

Sorry, I was just using the terminology I've seen people use

I think fflogs has it as rDPS and aDPS

Yeah I’m just used to seeing rdps haha, brain forgot what the r stands for

I'm nowhere near a flavor of the month player, but I like what I'm playing to not be absolute shit when I'm playing well, so even if it was lower DPS than the other ranged, as long as an 85th percentile BRD is close to an 85th percentile MCH and DNC, I'd be fine

But yeah pretty much everything is a good choice rn so I’d just keep at it, DRK is kinda sad atm but that’s an outlier and will probably get changed soon enough

(I hope)

Yeah, what the hell is up there?

They just didn’t give them anything with the expansion

Is the bigger change to their potencies than PLD and WAR because they use both physical & magical damage?

It’s biggest selling point was utility in prog, blackest night was an insane ability and covered a ton of shit the others couldn’t

But the expansion gave all the other tanks insane and FREE mitigation tools while changing nothing about DRK

DRK is now the only tank that has to sack damage to mitigate

On top of not getting any new cool tools

Also physical/magic damage essentially doesn’t matter anymore so that’s something

They’ve slowly removed most of the specialized buffs for either type

Sorry, I was asking if they got a bigger reduction to their potencies because they made physical & magical potencies use the same formula

Oh, no clue

But that wouldn’t really matter since the potencies didn’t really change, they were just converted iirc

And with the stat squish we have no way of really knowing anyways

I have DRK at 45, and I already didn't really like playing it because of having to juggle restoring HP, restoring MP, and dealing damage. With PLD, it was just "mitigate damage while doing your rotation, lose a GCD to heal now and then," WAR was "do your rotation, 1-2-3 heals, 1-2-4 gives damage buff," but DRK is like, "getting low on health? 1-2-3. Need MP faster? 1-2-1-2. Need more damage? Use MP. Need more damage while low on MP? Well, guess you better regen MP. Oh no, you tried to regen MP too much, now you need to 1-2-3 again!"

It probably gets better later, but it just feels awful at lower levels, and I don't experience that with PLD or WAR when synced lower.

Well you always wanna finish your combo at least, 1-2 for mp sounds good but it’s a lower gain in the long run

You lose too much damage by doing it

Yeah DRK is weird, used to be a lot more about just managing your mp but they’ve move away from that with time

Now it’s just in a weird state of being a pseudo warrior clone with more button mashing

That was the case in shb too

It honestly feels like DRK had more buttons at level 50 in HW than it did at 80 in ShB.

Kinda

Though a lot of those buttons were redundant

And not just ones removed through turning some skills into traits, turning some into role abilities, etc

Like, wasn't there a fuckton to Dark Arts before?

And they just kinda removed that

Also, does Yoshi-P just absolutely hate DoTs?

Honestly they had it right the first time, but for every expansion after it’s just kinda gone in weird directions

Who knows

Like, the complete SMN rework, that's one thing, but it seems every DoT that still exists has been nerfed besides the low level healer ones

Brd is a good example of that actually

I'm pretty sure the BRD ones last 15 sec longer but have half the potency

Dots used to proc all your damage sources of bard, but now that’s not even the case anymore iirc

That's a significant damage loss, because you're doubling the potency, but only increasing the amount of ticks by 30%

err, halving the potency*

It is actually double the ticks, server ticks are at 3s intervals in this game and the dots went from 15-30 right

Unless I’m misremembering

30 to 45

Wait, I don't know math

Oh wait they’re 45 now

thats 5 more ticks, not 3 more

I missed that completely

I thought you were referring to old changes, didn’t realize they increases the duration again

Okay, so if its 50 pot, 30 sec, 10 ticks, 500 pot. 25 pot, 45 sec, 15 ticks, 375 pot

So it lasts longer, but does 75% of the damage.

75% of the total damage over a longer duration.

It’s pretty funny actually, bard aoe used to be all about putting up multiple dots to get procs for your big damage sources, but now it’s not even worth putting them up outside of 1-2 targets

Since they don’t proc your shit

Did you have to DoT each target individually? I stayed away from shadow priest in WoW because it was an absolute beast for all of Legion, but I HATED using a GCD and 1.5s(before haste) applying Vampiric Touch, another GCD for Shadow Word: Pain, swapping target, repeating for every single target in a fight

You did that up to about 3 targets yeah

After that it wasn’t worth it iirc

Pain in the ass honestly

I wanted to try BRD when I started playing in 2015, until I found out that you had to hardcast everything starting at 52, so I stayed away from ranged until returning and saw that they decided to get rid of that.

I loved HW BRD, that shit was my jam, the 1.5s casts let you weave an off-global every gcd and move around mostly freely

Was fun

"Mostly" freely is the problem.

Xiv also has a kinda weird mechanic where your casts technically go through to the server about 2 3rds into the cast time

Which means you can move freely after a certain point without interrupting your cast

It's because with the best possible connection you can have, you're running at a minimum of 250-300ms

Nah that’s not the case anymore

The game had a built in 100ms for some reason back in ARR but that was fixed in HW

I dunno, everyone I've seen has said they definitely experience some latency

I mean not outside of just normal latency though

I meant between the time you press a button on your client and the time the server registers it, sorry

Everything is server-side so you’ll get latency based on your proximity to them