Alin's Tranquil nerfage

[Cyneric]

   Test update notes cap our hate decrease to 41%. I have a master 1 with 49% hate reduction <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />It's not like our class has huge dps, or can tank, or can heal much....our strength lies in our ability to help other classes do better.<div></div>

[Thessik_Ironta]

<div></div>Along with that line of thinking.. just how much does a troubador help his group? I know the buffs are good, but how good? does it justify having a troubador as a group spot instead of a ranger?

[Cyneric]

With our hate reduction, proc, power and skill buffs, we can let casters do a lot more damage...Yes it would be nice if our buffs could be akin to having a lot more dps in the group but dps is not the total story.I do feel that bards could use a little dps boost, as having pretty much every tank in the raid and a few healers(*cough* furies) and all casters out damage us.<div></div>

[Iggyopalus]

<div>I would assume this was done since i think we get an upgrade for this and they didn't want us to be reducing hate by more than 50%. The new version will likely be about 49% at master like our old one. Had to expect this since earlier they did the same thing to the paladin skill that was only a single target buff.</div>

[pera]

<span><blockquote><hr>Iggyopalus wrote:<div>I would assume this was done since i think we get an upgrade for this and they didn't want us to be reducing hate by more than 50%. The new version will likely be about 49% at master like our old one. Had to expect this since earlier they did the same thing to the paladin skill that was only a single target buff.</div><hr></blockquote>Yeah kind of sad really :-/</span><div></div>

[TheFat]

<div></div><p>Since over the life of the game they've stated they want to make the level cap, what? 200 I think it was? I've been wondering just how much more they can increase some of our percentage buffs. I mean, my poor little troub is only 40 and I'm already starting to see some horribly small increases.</p><p>If they had an appreciable increase in percentages you'd end up at level 200 with 150% haste buffs, 200% run speed... I mean, are they willing to do that sort of thing? I doubt it. Before it's all over with I'd expect them to either revamp some of the songs, replace them, or just give % increases by points. 22.4% to 22.9% or something like that. Which, in my humble opinion, would stink.</p>

[Menjar]

<div></div><blockquote><hr>Thessik_Irontail wrote:<div></div>Along with that line of thinking.. just how much does a troubador help his group? I know the buffs are good, but how good? does it justify having a troubador as a group spot instead of a ranger?<hr></blockquote><p>Sure -- I just heard from a L60 friend that Ranger DPS got mega-nerfed this issue.</p><p>So we should still be completely fine. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[Cabel]

<div></div><blockquote><hr>Cyneric wrote:   Test update notes cap our hate decrease to 41%. I have a master 1 with 49% hate reduction <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />It's not like our class has huge dps, or can tank, or can heal much....our strength lies in our ability to help other classes do better.<div></div><hr></blockquote><p>Ouch!  8 % taken off really hurts.  I have an adept 3, and it's 2 percent.  I guess master quality will be 41% and Adept 3 will be somewhere in the 30s.  I'm expecting an 8% drop to my Adept 3.... It's too bad, but it's something that I can live with if our DPS calms down a little.  Kind of hard to calm DPS down when it's an orange con raid target and we have to burn it down as fast as possible.  <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p> </p>