I want to say that the most recent RK buff was almost exactly what was needed for the class to catch up in DPS. In terms of single target dps on a training Dummy is not far off from other classes. If still argue they need a raw 5-10% damage buff but that’s not the suggestion I want to make.

The suggestion I want to make is actually to change the Lore-Masters’s Benediction skill. The current skill is -10% fire mitigations, and -20% with catmit. If however this could be changed to just -tactical mitigation, it would balance RK’s in raids, because that is still the issue.

RK can do fairly well in three mans or solo content because their writ of lighting at t3 is going to debuff lighting mitigation by 15%. However, every class in a raid scenario gets huge support for their DPS besides the RK. Beorning are debuffing -15% physical mitigation to targets, helping champs, burgs and wardens do a considerable amount of damage. Plus the Warden is either doing 5, 10, or 20 depending on what line they’re in.

By adjusting the LM’s debuff, it doesn’t break anything. Hunters will still do their same DPS and all the physical classes will as well. The only thing this would fix is bringing RK’s actually into raids. If anything this brings in more balance. It would help beorning bee’s a bit and maybe some of the LM’s non fire skills. Besides that it doesn’t totally break any meta or other class balance

Lastly, can there be a way to spread writ of lighting? In raid scenarios it takes like 7 seconds to get a fully tiered up writ of lighting on a target. It makes it pretty difficult for the RK to be able to swap targets fast to a pin, cocoon, mammoth, anything. This hurts their overall contribution to a raid as well. Maybe have essence of winter spread writ? Feels like having a way to spread writ makes a lot of sense for raid context and before AoE skills like vivid or static. This would also make the frost skills have some relevancy since they really don’t at this point