Support chrono/druid/warrior is tuned enough, please start buffing firebrand/renegade etc.

[zealex.9410]

And here i am thinking that all the healers/supports/buffers are actually busted.

[Daniel Handler.4816]

> @"CptAurellian.9537" said:

> > @"maddoctor.2738" said:

> > Renegade with Ventari Legend is the only alternative to Chronomancer as far as Alacrity is concerned. One option would be to increase the output of Alacrity from that build so it can compete with Chronomancer.

> >

> > Firebrand can provide Quickness, another option would be to make Firebrand better at Quickness application maybe? I'm not sure how Firebrand compares to Chronomancer in Quickness application.

> >

> > Of course the big question then would be, even if Firebrand and Renegade are able to "replace" Chronomancer (for Alacrity + Quickness), why use 2 slots (4 for both sub-groups) instead of 1 (2 for both subgroups)?

>

> FB quickness provision is almost fine, it just needs some more range and party priority instead of proximity priority. Your big question isn't really accurate, since FB and renegade replace chrono _and_ druid. For groups that bring two healers anyway, that combo would make perfect sense for the second subgroup if the problems of the FB/ren combo were addressed.

>

> As to the overall topic, I'd say we need both. The abomination that is chrono, especially the chaos variant, needs some of their boons removed. Being able to provide close to any boon in the game in a single spec is super bad design. At the same moment, FB and renegade need some rather small, but targeted improvements to make them competitive. FB quickness application has to become more reliable, while renegades need a proper damage/support stat combo and probably less clunky healing abilities. With such changes, we'd have two distinct supporter combos, both of which have their own strengths and weaknesses.

 

If they do nerf chaos further it should be after the targeted improvements you described. I'd rather development time go into realizing them sooner than later. Clunkiness bothers me more than elitist lfgs.

[ArthurDent.9538]

> @"Shikaru.7618" said:

> > @"ArthurDent.9538" said:

> > > @"Shikaru.7618" said:

> > > > @"ArthurDent.9538" said:

> > > > I am going go after druid because people have been saying it is reasonably balanced and that chrono is now the real problematic support spec. Druid isn't too bad in the sense that staff glyphs and the druid traitline aren't overpowered aside from glyph of empowerment (same prolem as frost spirit just a smaller multiplier on average) and grace of the land (shouldn't be 10 targets as it overshadows alternative sources of might heavily). The biggest problems are the core ranger utilities sun spirit and frost spirit which allow druid to add far too much dps to a group while building as a full healer which no other healer can possibly compete with.

> > > >

> > > > Frost spirit and to a slightly lesser extent glyph of empowerment needs to be changed to simply providing common boons. It is pretty much impossible to balance unique group damage modifiers in a way that they are not overbearingly strong unless the modifier is incredibly tiny. For a power comp if we assume that the 9 other players in a squad do 10,000 dps each on average for a total group dps of 90,000, when adding a healer if that healer is a druid with frost spirit that brings the 9 other players in that group up to about 10,750 dps for an average group dps of 96,750 a difference of 6,750 . This single utility is now causes the addition of 67.5% of an entire average player's dps just by existing which is absolutely absurd amount of power for a single utility. For other healers to conceivably compete against it they will need to bring 67.5% of the dps of an average player + whatever the dps that the druid is capable of + able to compete with the disgusting amount of utility that druid brings + have enough healing to be able to solo heal a raid squad at any boss and do all of that all at the same time. Sure a dps ranger can bring the frost spirit instead of a druid, that doesn't change how ridiculously high the amount of dps this utility skill adds compared to any other utility aside from warrior banners (another major problem). Bring all spirits back to 5 targets and change frost spirit to just pulse a certain amount of might, when traited it also pulses fury, this leaves it still potentially useful but optional as there are other ways to stack might and fury.

> > > >

> > > > And then we have sun spirit. Sun spirit is actually sort of balance able since it isn't actually a multiplier and instead adds a calculable amount of burning on average, it is just massively over tuned compared to other utilities. At a baseline sun spirit applies 2 stacks of 2.5sec burning every 8 seconds * 10 players for an average of 6.25 stacks of burning on average while it is active and the downtime is very low. For reference signet of fire which is another utility skill with the main purpose of stacking burning only maintains an average of 1.6 stacks of burning on average, there simply aren't any skills utility or weapon that can stack close to that amount of damaging conditions with only a 1 second cast every 80 seconds. Even if we take into account the small amount of downtime between sun spirits dying and being re-summoned the amount of burning that it deals is far too high. The other issue with sun spirit is that the burning does not scale off of the summoning ranger's condition damage but the condition damage of allies. This means a full healing druid without any condition damage can be the cause of a huge amount of burning damage when it is paired with some condition builds, which is a part of the main problem, druid it just adds a massive amount of extra damage to a raid group compared to what any other healer can reasonably do. Make sun spirit scale off of the ranger's condition damage/expertise akin to thief venoms and razorclaw's rage, then increase the cooldown significantly and reduce the spirit duration so that the damage is brought in line with other condi damage focused utilities.

> > > >

> > > > These changes will leave druid in a place where it doesn't have as much raw healing as firebrand, ventari rev, or tempest however it is still a strong choice of healer due to having a tremendous amount of adaptable utility. Entange, pushes, a pull, projectile defense, group stealth, group stun break, condi cleanse, spirit res, search and rescue, great cc, might, fury, protection, etc. allows druid to easily stay competitive even without it's massively imbalanced unique buffs just by having a tool for any situation. And when it comes to healers as long as one of them contributing way more damage than all the others then they should all be reasonably competitive with each other.

> > >

> > > I'm curious if the damage multiplier itself or if its the fact that it's a unique buff offered nowhere else. Bringing spirits back to 5 targets would simply force the 2 existing druids to run frost spirit and we're still back at square one. I think the issue is that these buffs are unique and even if they were nerfed down to 3% from 5%, people would still take them because it raises the dps ceiling. That on top of spotter being so important because crit chance is such a key stat to cap for power classes that even if spotter only gave 25 precision, people would probably still take the class since it lets them take 1 less piece of assassin's gear.

> > >

> > I supposed I didn't make it clear enough but for frost spirit I would get rid of the unique modifier and just replace it with might. Might serves the same purpose of boosting group damage however since it is a common boon it would no longer feel obligatory as there are alternative ways to reach might cap. As for stuff like spotter, assassin's presence, pinpoint distribution, and empower allies; They are somewhat too strong compared to other traits however they aren't on the level of spirits and banners where you feel obliged to take the class for the buffs regardless of how crappy the class is in every other regard. Case in point being the extended period of time when rev was completely out of the raid meta despite bringing assassin's presence because the rest of the class was just too far behind on dps and didn't have enough of anything else to make up for it. Even now revs run invocation instead of devastation in condi groups and holosmiths don't run pinpoint distribution despite still taking the trait line. I believe those traits can be reasonably balanced by making the war/ranger/rev have slightly less utility/dps than other classes but the stat trait helps make up for it and keep it competitive.

>

> I actually don't mind the other stat buff traits. It's specifically spotter that I have an issue with because landing crits is so important to dps. Not critting on a power build for any particular hit essentially negates the significant stat investment you've made into precision and ferocity in that moment which is like 3,000 stat points just doing nothing.

>

> While this is not solving the problem at all, if we swapped AP with Spotter on ranger/rev would we start seeing dps rev be taken as a mandatory slot or would we see people shift to more assassin pieces?

 

Honestly spotter is arguably the weakest of the stat boosting traits (other than the guardian toughness one) because precision has a usefulness cap at 100% crit chance. Say we want to compare the value of empower allies' 100 power against spotter's 100 precision for a build that needs exactly 100 more precision to reach 100% crit chance. If we drop empower allies we lose 100 power and get 100 precision from spotter which is alright. On the other hand if we drop spotter, we will then take a bit more precision either through some assassins gear or precise infusions to regain that 100 precision which will cost exactly 100 power since berserkers and assassins have the same total of power + precision, in this scenario as long as you are willing to adjust your gear a bit there is no difference between empower allies and spotter, and this is best case for spotter. Certain builds like power reaper, radiance guard, power rev, and holosmith can go over 100% crit chance with full berserkers and power infusions so spotter is wasted on them while the power from empower allies is always desired. Other builds might need a bit more precision to hit crit cap but are close enough that spotter would put them over 100% crit chance in which case they can optimize much more easily for exactly crit cap with assassins/precise infusions and end up with higher effective power. Spotter only really comes out ahead for people who can't be bothered to have a few alternative gear pieces so that they can build to maximize crit chance when spotter isn't around and in that case they aren't really min maxing and this competition doesn't really matter. If we compare spotter to assassin's presence, ap wins because of 50% extra stats makes it just a stronger version of empower allies and if compare to pinpoint distribution spotter wins for power comps and PD wins for condi comps so it is a split.

[Shikaru.7618]

> @"ArthurDent.9538" said:

> > @"Shikaru.7618" said:

> > > @"ArthurDent.9538" said:

> > > > @"Shikaru.7618" said:

> > > > > @"ArthurDent.9538" said:

> > > > > I am going go after druid because people have been saying it is reasonably balanced and that chrono is now the real problematic support spec. Druid isn't too bad in the sense that staff glyphs and the druid traitline aren't overpowered aside from glyph of empowerment (same prolem as frost spirit just a smaller multiplier on average) and grace of the land (shouldn't be 10 targets as it overshadows alternative sources of might heavily). The biggest problems are the core ranger utilities sun spirit and frost spirit which allow druid to add far too much dps to a group while building as a full healer which no other healer can possibly compete with.

> > > > >

> > > > > Frost spirit and to a slightly lesser extent glyph of empowerment needs to be changed to simply providing common boons. It is pretty much impossible to balance unique group damage modifiers in a way that they are not overbearingly strong unless the modifier is incredibly tiny. For a power comp if we assume that the 9 other players in a squad do 10,000 dps each on average for a total group dps of 90,000, when adding a healer if that healer is a druid with frost spirit that brings the 9 other players in that group up to about 10,750 dps for an average group dps of 96,750 a difference of 6,750 . This single utility is now causes the addition of 67.5% of an entire average player's dps just by existing which is absolutely absurd amount of power for a single utility. For other healers to conceivably compete against it they will need to bring 67.5% of the dps of an average player + whatever the dps that the druid is capable of + able to compete with the disgusting amount of utility that druid brings + have enough healing to be able to solo heal a raid squad at any boss and do all of that all at the same time. Sure a dps ranger can bring the frost spirit instead of a druid, that doesn't change how ridiculously high the amount of dps this utility skill adds compared to any other utility aside from warrior banners (another major problem). Bring all spirits back to 5 targets and change frost spirit to just pulse a certain amount of might, when traited it also pulses fury, this leaves it still potentially useful but optional as there are other ways to stack might and fury.

> > > > >

> > > > > And then we have sun spirit. Sun spirit is actually sort of balance able since it isn't actually a multiplier and instead adds a calculable amount of burning on average, it is just massively over tuned compared to other utilities. At a baseline sun spirit applies 2 stacks of 2.5sec burning every 8 seconds * 10 players for an average of 6.25 stacks of burning on average while it is active and the downtime is very low. For reference signet of fire which is another utility skill with the main purpose of stacking burning only maintains an average of 1.6 stacks of burning on average, there simply aren't any skills utility or weapon that can stack close to that amount of damaging conditions with only a 1 second cast every 80 seconds. Even if we take into account the small amount of downtime between sun spirits dying and being re-summoned the amount of burning that it deals is far too high. The other issue with sun spirit is that the burning does not scale off of the summoning ranger's condition damage but the condition damage of allies. This means a full healing druid without any condition damage can be the cause of a huge amount of burning damage when it is paired with some condition builds, which is a part of the main problem, druid it just adds a massive amount of extra damage to a raid group compared to what any other healer can reasonably do. Make sun spirit scale off of the ranger's condition damage/expertise akin to thief venoms and razorclaw's rage, then increase the cooldown significantly and reduce the spirit duration so that the damage is brought in line with other condi damage focused utilities.

> > > > >

> > > > > These changes will leave druid in a place where it doesn't have as much raw healing as firebrand, ventari rev, or tempest however it is still a strong choice of healer due to having a tremendous amount of adaptable utility. Entange, pushes, a pull, projectile defense, group stealth, group stun break, condi cleanse, spirit res, search and rescue, great cc, might, fury, protection, etc. allows druid to easily stay competitive even without it's massively imbalanced unique buffs just by having a tool for any situation. And when it comes to healers as long as one of them contributing way more damage than all the others then they should all be reasonably competitive with each other.

> > > >

> > > > I'm curious if the damage multiplier itself or if its the fact that it's a unique buff offered nowhere else. Bringing spirits back to 5 targets would simply force the 2 existing druids to run frost spirit and we're still back at square one. I think the issue is that these buffs are unique and even if they were nerfed down to 3% from 5%, people would still take them because it raises the dps ceiling. That on top of spotter being so important because crit chance is such a key stat to cap for power classes that even if spotter only gave 25 precision, people would probably still take the class since it lets them take 1 less piece of assassin's gear.

> > > >

> > > I supposed I didn't make it clear enough but for frost spirit I would get rid of the unique modifier and just replace it with might. Might serves the same purpose of boosting group damage however since it is a common boon it would no longer feel obligatory as there are alternative ways to reach might cap. As for stuff like spotter, assassin's presence, pinpoint distribution, and empower allies; They are somewhat too strong compared to other traits however they aren't on the level of spirits and banners where you feel obliged to take the class for the buffs regardless of how crappy the class is in every other regard. Case in point being the extended period of time when rev was completely out of the raid meta despite bringing assassin's presence because the rest of the class was just too far behind on dps and didn't have enough of anything else to make up for it. Even now revs run invocation instead of devastation in condi groups and holosmiths don't run pinpoint distribution despite still taking the trait line. I believe those traits can be reasonably balanced by making the war/ranger/rev have slightly less utility/dps than other classes but the stat trait helps make up for it and keep it competitive.

> >

> > I actually don't mind the other stat buff traits. It's specifically spotter that I have an issue with because landing crits is so important to dps. Not critting on a power build for any particular hit essentially negates the significant stat investment you've made into precision and ferocity in that moment which is like 3,000 stat points just doing nothing.

> >

> > While this is not solving the problem at all, if we swapped AP with Spotter on ranger/rev would we start seeing dps rev be taken as a mandatory slot or would we see people shift to more assassin pieces?

>

> Honestly spotter is arguably the weakest of the stat boosting traits (other than the guardian toughness one) because precision has a usefulness cap at 100% crit chance. Say we want to compare the value of empower allies' 100 power against spotter's 100 precision for a build that needs exactly 100 more precision to reach 100% crit chance. If we drop empower allies we lose 100 power and get 100 precision from spotter which is alright. On the other hand if we drop spotter, we will then take a bit more precision either through some assassins gear or precise infusions to regain that 100 precision which will cost exactly 100 power since berserkers and assassins have the same total of power + precision, in this scenario as long as you are willing to adjust your gear a bit there is no difference between empower allies and spotter, and this is best case for spotter. Certain builds like power reaper, radiance guard, power rev, and holosmith can go over 100% crit chance with full berserkers and power infusions so spotter is wasted on them while the power from empower allies is always desired. Other builds might need a bit more precision to hit crit cap but are close enough that spotter would put them over 100% crit chance in which case they can optimize much more easily for exactly crit cap with assassins/precise infusions and end up with higher effective power. Spotter only really comes out ahead for people who can't be bothered to have a few alternative gear pieces so that they can build to maximize crit chance when spotter isn't around and in that case they aren't really min maxing and this competition doesn't really matter. If we compare spotter to assassin's presence, ap wins because of 50% extra stats makes it just a stronger version of empower allies and if compare to pinpoint distribution spotter wins for power comps and PD wins for condi comps so it is a split.

 

Now that you mention it, this is probably another reason why I dislike Spotter so much. It's the only stat buff that can cause gear changes in the absence of it. IDK how the math exactly works out but I would imagine there would be a number of classes that would need to bring assassin, sigil of accuracy mixes. It's the only stat that has a perceivable floor, whereas EA, AP, PPD all just raise the dps ceiling but would not cause any changes in gear/builds if they're absent.

[Kal Bhairav.6589]

what's the point of all this.. nerf one, buff other, cry about buff and nerf, nothing changes roles. Class might change bur roles stays the same.

[Miellyn.6847]

> @"maddoctor.2738" said:

> Renegade with Ventari Legend is the only alternative to Chronomancer as far as Alacrity is concerned. One option would be to increase the output of Alacrity from that build so it can compete with Chronomancer.

>

> Firebrand can provide Quickness, another option would be to make Firebrand better at Quickness application maybe? I'm not sure how Firebrand compares to Chronomancer in Quickness application.

>

> Of course the big question then would be, even if Firebrand and Renegade are able to "replace" Chronomancer (for Alacrity + Quickness), why use 2 slots (4 for both sub-groups) instead of 1 (2 for both subgroups)?

 

Renegades can reach 100% alacrity easily. The problem is that they don't have reflects, pull, portals, quickness and less CC.

[maddoctor.2738]

> @"Miellyn.6847" said:

> Renegades can reach 100% alacrity easily.

 

Really? How does that build look like?

 

 

[Miellyn.6847]

> @"maddoctor.2738" said:

> > @"Miellyn.6847" said:

> > Renegades can reach 100% alacrity easily.

>

> Really? How does that build look like?

 

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vlAQNAscmnnNWMTyJvmRNlZzsoytZ4UZ3MIs8bmFNl6PIPymcNJmiqodACgGA-jBSBQBNVfAAeEAP4EAcV1fCryvss/gZVCqvjAAA-e

 

Just cycle through Ventari and Kalla, big heal during Ventari for alacrity and F4, Elite during Kalla for alacrity and damage/support/heal. You can tweak it for better damage/more healing (e.g Sigil of Concentration, less concentration as a stat) but this is the base build.

[TexZero.7910]

> @"Daniel Handler.4816" said:

> > @"TexZero.7910" said:

> > Disagree. Firebrand is fine currently and Renegade might even be slightly out of line. The problem wont simply be fixed by buffing these specs but by shaving down the unnecessarily overloaded kit of Chrono.

>

> Slightly out of line? You realize we are taking about the support build right?

>

 

You realize Renegade isn't really supposed to be "support" right ?

That Anet has bent over backwards to try and force it to be viable so hard that they've overloaded it.... No, i suppose it getting nothing but buffs for several patches went unnoticed.

 

I'm not surprised though, it's revenant. Their support elite Glint does less support than Kalla.

[maddoctor.2738]

> @"Miellyn.6847" said:

> > @"maddoctor.2738" said:

> > > @"Miellyn.6847" said:

> > > Renegades can reach 100% alacrity easily.

> >

> > Really? How does that build look like?

>

> http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vlAQNAscmnnNWMTyJvmRNlZzsoytZ4UZ3MIs8bmFNl6PIPymcNJmiqodACgGA-jBSBQBNVfAAeEAP4EAcV1fCryvss/gZVCqvjAAA-e

>

> Just cycle through Ventari and Kalla, big heal during Ventari for alacrity and F4, Elite during Kalla for alacrity and damage/support/heal. You can tweak it for better damage/more healing (e.g Sigil of Concentration, less concentration as a stat) but this is the base build.

 

Thanks for the build!

[Etheri.5406]

> @"Miellyn.6847" said:

> > @"Oglaf.1074" said:

> > > @"Nivik.2961" said:

> > > It seems to me that chrono is a pretty big problem. All of the community wants their spec to perform at that lvl of effectiveness in all game modes. (Reasonable considering Mesmer players pay the same as everyone else). But I think that if all classes became that effective it would brake the game; especially PvE. For one class to be that integral to every single organized group is faulty. IMO

> >

> > Messers and Druids have become far too mandatory for Raids, I think.

> >

> > Member when Anet thought the Trinity was bad?

> >

> > Oh, I member.

> >

> As you can see with fractal speed runs, druids are far far away from mandatory. Druids get already dropped for a 3rd DPS slot. Mesmer is the real problem and druids will cease to exist in raids when chronomancer finally gets nerfed.

> The only utility a druid brings is might and healing. Everything else is part of core ranger.

> It's just that neither firebrand or revenant brings something that couldn't be done by chronomancers but better while providing unique things like frequent portals.

>

> > @"Daniel Handler.4816" said:

> > Balancing isn't so relative that nerfing the meta improves the kits of near or non-viable supports. I'd rather have cohesive specs become the status quo, than others be lowered to inadequacy.

>

> All supports are perfectly *viable*. But only chronomancers and druids are *optimal* right now. Mainly because of the broken chronomancer.

 

It's not fair to compare druids viability from a 5-man point of view. Druid's main strengths got rebalanced to 10 players. Spirits and GOTL all affect 10 players. As a result, druid is significantly stronger in 5 man content than in 10 man content.

 

I agree druid is more replacable than chrono; and also more balanced; but spirits and 10 man gotl are still quite overpowered.

Can we please get actual balance rather than these dumb bandaid gimmicks that just make things worse in the long term? GOTL should not apply to 10 players; just get rid of it already.

[Etheri.5406]

> @"Kal Bhairav.6589" said:

> what's the point of all this.. nerf one, buff other, cry about buff and nerf, nothing changes roles. Class might change bur roles stays the same.

 

It's about BALANCE; where we have virtually every spec having some "viable" DPS roles yet not a single spec that can replace chrono for instanced PvE; and almost nothing that can replace or do without druid.

 

If you don't grasp that we want these BALANCED so both are viable options; and one is better than the other depending on the specific boss and scenario rather than "chrono is always best, no matter what" then you can add to the discussion. Right now your contribution to this thread is "guys I don't know what you're talking about".

[Agrippa Oculus.3726]

> @"Astralporing.1957" said:

> > @"Miellyn.6847" said:

> > All supports are perfectly *viable*. But only chronomancers and druids are *optimal* right now. Mainly because of the broken chronomancer.

> That will always be the case.

>

> You can, of course, nerf chrono to the point it's no longer optimal (but, due to how that class is made up, ypou'd need to either completely redo it, or break the support ability to the point it won't be usable anymore, which would remove chrono from meta (because it has nothing to offer for high end game besides support).

 

Is that really true? As far as I know, Chrono has a very capable power DPS Chrono build that could well fit into meta! And maybe not Chrono, but Mirage is still very much meta in Condi DPS, even after the nerfs! And if you compare that to other classes ... there is one atm that doesn't even have ONE build in the meta right now (Necro), and except for some gimmicks, they had a very bad history at it as well. Why not take only one mesmer build out of the meta right now, and give it to another class? And imo, it would only be about time to take that very long sitting one: support chrono. You don't have to feel sorry, because their _time_ is just up ... (out of all, a real chrono understands best :) )

[Kal Bhairav.6589]

> @"Etheri.5406" said:

> > @"Kal Bhairav.6589" said:

> > what's the point of all this.. nerf one, buff other, cry about buff and nerf, nothing changes roles. Class might change bur roles stays the same.

>

> It's about BALANCE; where we have virtually every spec having some "viable" DPS roles yet not a single spec that can replace chrono for instanced PvE; and almost nothing that can replace or do without druid.

>

> If you don't grasp that we want these BALANCED so both are viable options; and one is better than the other depending on the specific boss and scenario rather than "chrono is always best, no matter what" then you can add to the discussion. Right now your contribution to this thread is "guys I don't know what you're talking about

 

May be I don't want to know what you are talking about. Is that against this forum rule?

You want balance the way you see it fit. Eitherway, it don't matter much. I will play the way game is designed until I can enjoy.

[Astralporing.1957]

> @"Agrippa Oculus.3726" said:

> > @"Astralporing.1957" said:

> > > @"Miellyn.6847" said:

> > > All supports are perfectly *viable*. But only chronomancers and druids are *optimal* right now. Mainly because of the broken chronomancer.

> > That will always be the case.

> >

> > You can, of course, nerf chrono to the point it's no longer optimal (but, due to how that class is made up, ypou'd need to either completely redo it, or break the support ability to the point it won't be usable anymore, which would remove chrono from meta (because it has nothing to offer for high end game besides support).

>

> Is that really true? As far as I know, Chrono has a very capable power DPS Chrono build that could well fit into meta! And maybe not Chrono, but Mirage is still very much meta in Condi DPS, even after the nerfs! And if you compare that to other classes ... there is one atm that doesn't even have ONE build in the meta right now (Necro), and except for some gimmicks, they had a very bad history at it as well. Why not take only one mesmer build out of the meta right now, and give it to another class? And imo, it would only be about time to take that very long sitting one: support chrono. You don't have to feel sorry, because their _time_ is just up ... (out of all, a real chrono understands best :) )

There is no alternative to chrono however. Nothing is even close, because it just happens there is only one pure support option in the game - the support chrono. And there's only one more espec that has been built around the idea of being a support spec. It just happens to be Herald, and currently it just doesn't work at all for its intended purpose, so it's not even close to being a competitor.

 

All other support options are added on builds whose primary purpose is different (either dps or healing). As they are, they can't replace chrono. Not without them becoming even more OP.

 

So, again, chrono is not broken by itself. There's simply no alternative. And _that_ is soething that must change. And not by nerfing chrono (as that would not miraculously create more options), but by making another true support spec.

 

[Manimarco Devil.1790]

Is firebrand even "viable" in raids? I thought mantras still targeted closest 5 instead of prioritizing party over squad.