The changes to the armours aren't a nerf to scouts at all, so I don;t know why people are focusing on that. What the person is saying about us not tanking is its not our primary role, and medium armour isn't a worn armour for a character whose primary role is to tank. hence they did heavy armour and then light armour for brawlers.
Medium armour didn't take a nerf, its still the same, and still better that light armour, however if anything as the gap between medium and light armour has closed a bit, it makes using light armour a more viable armour chioce if thats what we wanted to do.
So as far as thats concerned, its not a nerf to bards or scouts at all its a benefit.
The agility changes went in last patch, the latest round on test nerfs strength. Well yes this effects bards as they buff str, although dirges due to their supposedly more offensive role tended to have buffs with str attached extra, where as troubs have agility, so in that respect it prolly hits dirges more (which i play), and we also debuff str too, so again effects us.
However, it was brought in to curb some of the high level fighters having such high level dps, most scout dps seems to come from CA and then weapons attacks + poisions, so scouts are effected less by that change, bringing the dps of scouts and fighters at high levels more in line.. troubs are still a scout so its swings and round abouts on that change... however yeah the benefit of this balance is seen more by the other scouts than bards as some of our dps contribution comes from the fighter classes via buffs.
what you can hope for in this is that they alter the str stat, and if they then still see fighters kicking out the damage, they'll take a closer look at how CA, regular melee, weapon delay & haste all figure into the dps equation and realise things are perhaps not working as they "might" be intending.
Message Edited by Jziad on 02-11-2005 10:16 AM