Job Vision: Watch paint dry

[Korpg]

I actually just want an INTERESTING comparison. But I'm quite flexible on this test. You can skip the avatar if you want to.

What you'd get with this test, is an example of how much melee traits and difference in armors make between the jobs. The idea to include the avatar were to see if having 0 traits but 1 avatar balanced it all out. I.e. a quick test to see if DA + attack bonus + better haste gear = 1 avatar pet.

And the reason G.Axe isn't part of any of these tests, is because I'm already pretty sure using the best weapon for WAR puts it as a better melee than SMN... else why would anyone play WAR over SMN? (Discuss this with Dallas though. He likes the discussions about WARs being half as good as SMNs)

Ask yourself this: What is the purpose of this test?

And let us know what you come up with.

I see what you think this test will do, but in all honesty, what is the purpose of this test? Is it to determine how SMN can stack up to WAR given a solo situation? Party situation? Really, what is the purpose of the test, you think?

[Malamasala]

I see what you think this test will do, but in all honesty, what is the purpose of this test? Is it to determine how SMN can stack up to WAR given a solo situation? Party situation? Really, what is the purpose of the test, you think?

I'm pretty sure I said it is like a BLM nuking level 1 mobs to find base damage on nukes. It is not for checking if a BLM in a party will own level 1 bunnies, but out of curiosity.

In this SMN test, it will show how much of a difference traits and armor selection does. This is a bit more unknown than if there is a difference between G.Axe damage and Staff damage, which for some reason you people want to compare. I mean... what do you expect to find? Staff out-DDing G.Axe? You are only making a mock test to troll.

You could honestly do the same with WAR and DRK if you want to. Equip both with staffs, check how different they are in damage output from traits/armor/spells. That would tell you how close DRK is to WAR, ignoring multi hit crit WSes (which DRKs cry for).

tl;dr it compares melee trait importance, and some armor importance. Nothing more, nothing less.