Quote Originally Posted by Lohi View Post
But it's currently not the class we started with either, and the Isengard changes drastically upended the feel of it. Harmony never really worked or found a niche and seemed to exist only because they needed 3 stances (sort of worked ok in skirmish raids though). So upending it again will probably feel familiar I guess.

I also remember in Moria how many minstrels from beta predicted doom, and many put theirs on hold until the first patch (I had lots of alts so I put mine on hold).
Very true Lohi. And I remember being exceptionally concerned about not being able to mainheal raids in yellow with the Orion changes before learning to love using harmony. I think the point being made in the paragraph from which you've picked out that sentence though is that the minstrel is in a rough state of development as of now and that these changes have stripped the minstrel down and then looked to build it from ground up. We are going to be looking at fixes to this continuing after release, that's by official confirmation now. So, doom and gloom, yeah take your point, but really the class isn't fully up to speed for launch day and it's been slow going over the past 10 weeks of beta to see changes and bug fixes being implemented. If I tell you that as part of the changes one of the skills deemed essential to minstrels and placed fairly high into yellow line was 'call to the fellowship' it may give you some insight into where beta minstrels are coming from. And there are some concerns around the strength of blue line healing being just a tad excessive, although the concerns around dps output are now scheduled to be addressed within beta.