Quote Originally Posted by Afania View Post
Ok I just found out the reason why my spreadsheet result seems to have smaller gap than what people expected, it's not that BLU spreadsheet is wrong, it's the WAR spreadsheet didn't have updated calculation at high pDIF situations.

If someone has Nightfyre's fixed version spreadsheet feel free to publish updated DPS comparison.

Also please note that WAR atm is one of the strongest DPS at capped pdif situations. Even if that makes BLU a bit more behind(as it should for a hybrid job) at capped pdif situations I'd say it's probably still highly competitive against other DPS jobs like DRG, NIN, MNK and possibly SAM and such.
In the case of WAR it's about Warcry and Blood Rage. Warcry is +700 TP Bonus and +11% Attack for 60s on the entire party. 700 TP Bonus is crazy powerful on any Weapon Skill that scales with fTP like Resolution / Cross Reaper / ect. The other ability is Blood Rage, +40% Critical Hit Rate for 60s on the entire party, which does similar things to any Critical hit WS. These abilities don't stack and overwrite each other so the WAR needs to choose the appropriate one for the group they are with. I've switched to WAR/NIN with my sword and spammed crazy nice Vorpals just to demonstrate this to people saying the exact same things you were.

A note on those spreedsheets, they should never be used to compare jobs. They are designed to allow you to compare gear X vs gear Y for the same job in a variety of situations, this game is far too dynamic for them to be accurate between different jobs. Something as simple as fight length will have dramatic effects on the result because they don't take time into consideration. Take the above WC / BR for example. Both those abilities are on a 5 min timer with a 60s duration meaning in a fight of infinite length (spreedsheets) they are up 1/5th of the time. Yet in the game nearly every fight is over with before WC/BR wears which makes it up 100% of the time, that alone dramatically shifts the relative power index of not only WAR but every other job in the party. Almace CDC is no longer BLU's best WS option then. But reverse the situation, take away the buffs and strip down the support and suddenly that fight is taking several minutes and that WAR is spending more time in -DT gear (another thing the spreedsheets fail to take into account), now the BLU has the advantage.

Which brings me to my last point, for the love of god stop giving everyone 3000TP free AM3 at the start, a lot of content doesn't allow you to do that. By the time the person has built up TP the fight is halfway over with and a couple seconds later it's finished. It heavily bias's the comparisons between builds.