RNG was fundamentally broken, and significantly more powerful than they were at the time that the game is aiming to replicate. Sorry if that fact upsets you, but that's the case and is why people would like it fixed.

Relative to SMN prior to the nerf.... like literally the exact thing your post was about. It's great for buffing parties... It's pretty freaking terrible at dealing damage now.

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Are you just going to keep repeating yourself, or point to what was actually broken?

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I wouldn't take a RNG to merit/xp with me as it is now, so that's not really the point.

They'd be welcome to end game as a normal DD. They were allowed for a number of things in era, when it was functioning correctly. They just weren't like they are here.

Before the SMN nerf it was WAAAAAAY more powerful than it ever was on retail. That's why it was used so much more. It's still extremely useful in endgame.

I don't ever recall SMN being a top damage dealing class on retail- am I mistaken?

Depends what you were fighting.... that being said, SMN was probably overbuffed for damage.. Hence why I never complained about his changes to SMN damage. It's pretty pitiful now though for most things.

Which is in stark contrast to RNG, where it was working as intended for the era right before the yalm distance change. It wasn't overpowered. RNG was just a very powerful job for some content at the time.

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so no... we're just taking your word for it on being broken?

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This was a change to how the class was played that was extremely controversial even on retail. Nas could just literally lower their damage if they were doing too much, much like he did with.... Summoner, which is STILL absurdly uncoded compared to retail, but was fairly and rightfully nerfed in its damage output. Got to disagree that they are the same. And for those comparing it to beast, beast was nothing like retail, and was brought back in line or nerfed too hard. All three of these are different >.>

I don't disagree with your points here, I'm just more of a "let's wait and see before we blow a gasket" type of person. I stand by my "one month" prediction. People will adjust and things will be fine. SMN isn't dead and RNG won't be either. Will the overall power level decrease? Perhaps? But will the job be garbage. Nope.