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it's probably the retard from a few threads back who thought blm's still had aoe sleep in pvp.
it's true, shirk is awesome, but war and drk got shat on in this xpac. they lost their native stuns and native dots, as well as loads of self-sustain via bloodbath, not to mention utility (and some dps) such as old reprisal/low blow and storm's path.
pld lost nothing, except access to blood bath. even with 4 pld skills being tossed into the role pool they still make out better than war and drk, because pld can take those 4 plus 1 other and be done with it, while war and drk basically use the same 4 pld will use (reprsial, rampart, shirk and voke) and then choose between conv and awareness.
although this is as much a problem with the cross role stuff in general as it is with war and drk. the main point being that drk and war got dumbed way down for no good reason was fracture/scourge really that hard a button to press every 30s? without much of anything to show for it. meme cleave is fun, sure, but the only reason it's a major gain in dps has more to do with storm's path granted 2x the resource it did back in HW and ARR. meanwhile, drk's get good a good tank/utility skill disguised as an OT dps booster that actually does fuckall for boosting damage compared to just using the mp on dark arts. plus drk has two full combos now by which i mean one full combo because no one uses the PS combo outside of the initial pull, if even then
i've said this before and i'll say it again; it's like two development teams were working on job balance for SB. you have awesome stuff like rotating songs with unique personal buffs for brd, or pld's super smooth half-magic/half-physical rotation, fortified with amazing utility on top of solid damage. but then you also have the shitshow of pre-4.05 war that somehow passed muster with 50% gauge loss for stance swapping, or the incredibly back-ended smn damage rotation, or the initial iteration of plenary indulgence/confession stacks many whm's i know enjoy the skill now that it procs off of aoe heals instead of just single targetit's also apparently bugged now and has a 100% chance to grant a confession stack, which nobody has been complaining about because otherwise it would be shit. why didn't the pld/brd treatment happen to every class? why did drg, war, drk and blm get dumbed down; unnecessarily so; while other classes had some interesting and in the case of pld, sorely needed complexity that was added to them?
i like the xpac so far. but as much as i like it, i gotta be honest that some of the changes they made to the jobs seem, at best, backwards and hamfisted.
personally i'd like to see the old geirskogul/botd mechanic brought back via dragon sight. make it a buff with a set duration that can be extended by using the appropriate attacks. make it so that, when done right, a drg can have that buff up on themselves and an ally of their choice full time. cut the damage boost it grants if you have to, but give the class something to make up what was lost.
don't even get me started on what war and drk need