Ninja also works well with Drk for the slashing debuff. And Dragoon just works well with anything/everything thanks to battle litany, but I see the point you're trying to make.
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Ninja also works well with Drk for the slashing debuff. And Dragoon just works well with anything/everything thanks to battle litany, but I see the point you're trying to make.
You shouldn't be pairing DPS one by one with the tanks. DPS ratio to tanks is 2:1. Unlike healers to tanks.
NIN buffs all three tanks equally. As a matter of fact, NIN works better for the other tanks just because of Goad. But WAR synergy with NIN is good because they can drop DE.
MNK and DRG get and give no direct benefit to and from the tanks. But they have their raid utility.
The right way to look at it imo is:
You don't need a MNK if you have a DRK.
You don't need a NIN if you have a WAR. But WAR adds to NIN nicely.
DRG is king of DPS and there is no reason not to bring one, like ever!
Unless you are on EU server, latency is killing their optimal play for most as there is no way you can weave 2 oGCD's durning GCD its just impossible(NiN is on same boat due mudras). So because of this MNK is actually most optimal melee class for EU players if you are suffering from heavy latency/delays.
As long as you have a WAR + PLD or DRK you're golden for current content.
Former static was MT WAR-OT WAR at start then I swapped from WAR to SCH and we got a PLD so we were MT WAR - OT PLD. The pally took a game break we got another WAR again. The OT WAR swapped to DRK in Heavensward till we disbanded lately (some other story).
I don't see any issues in any combo seeing that were our compositions SCOB and FCOB echoless.
Wonder what you talk about I level mnk for fun and am on an odd connection that makes me lag in the evenings currently... my DPS is shit because I rarely get to activate 3rd skill of combos and keep GL up :o