Can someone with a galaxy brain explain this to me? I know of the SOI changes, but this statement seems like nonsense to me. Pretty sure the actual reason to bring firebrigade is the huge dps increase both classes bring and braindead 1 button press buffing that anyone can do. In fact SOI only extand boon for flat 3 second and only apply to boon you have in your bar. That old nerf put concentration stats become kind of useless on chrono for SOI. You can play a full zerk chrono and just extand that 3 flat second how btw was 5 second before the re-nerf. My point on this chrono have now harder time to give alac+quickness VS a quickbrand and a 10man share alacrity Renegade specialy on a very dynamic fight. A fight how your stant on same spot dosent make any difference. This his also one of the main reason you dont see a lot of chrono in fractals/open world cause fight are too dynamic. Raid didn realy change a lot cause boss are very static most of time or you try to keep them static as possible. Sadly only veterant chrono will still find that easy to play but new player the learning curve his hard. Example: 2 Firequickbrand+ 1 Rev Alacrity any of them can also cover the full healer role and this his where the chrono his useless cause he got a poor allies healing+buffing. easy to a firebrand provide 25 stack might+ perma protect+perma regen+perma quickness and stability to10 man on demand. Chrono canot do that anymore so Anet just replaced Chrono for the Firebrand and that kind of sad. Cause most of raid/fractal group will target THE class how can cover maximum role in 1. tank/healer/buffer. My best choice for now his firebrand vs any other but you can still relly on chrono or rev but its more work.