Originally Posted by Solymir  |
I know I am picking one statement out of the post, and it's not what the OP question is completely about, but I wanted to share an awesome party I had in the Nyzul-Thickets.
The party was rdm/whm, brd/whm, and war/nin x4 (one of which was me). The bard was the puller, and did an excellent job. Mobs were Colibri and Bugard on the lowest tier of the zone. I don't remember any of the lullabys being reflected onto the warriors, though it is possible they were cured quickly, or knocked awake by the colibri. |
I was kinda just spelling out the worst case scenario, there's a lot of BRDs that refuse to go to this camp because they can't adapt to the differences or refuse to submit to a back line role. A good BRD can work around it but...
My whole problem with BRDs pulling is quite a few don't perform the core function of their job - buffing. There are quite a few CORs that can't hack it at buffing either, they lose focus and concentrate too much on the melee element, but the job is built in such a way that the potential to pull and keep buffs up is more practical than it is with BRD at merit level. We're talking about a five minute duration vs. Two minutes, so it baffles me when a COR can't keep up or refuses to drop DD to do this, in addtion to BRDs not buffing and just pulling.