Best DPS after Black Mage

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Originally Posted by randysquirrel

if you're going to bring numbers into it, at least be accurate. 17k wildfires and 12k fire IVs are nowhere near the ceiling amount these moves can hit for

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This. I dont have the best gear, and ive seen back to back 14k crits on F4 before. So i know we can go higher.

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Originally Posted by Frizze

This. I dont have the best gear, and ive seen back to back 14k crits on F4 before. So i know we can go higher.

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Its always fun to see those high numbers. I hit two consecutive 23k fire IVs in my opener, about a month ago. My gear is better now, but I still have a ways to go. I took hate even through quelling and died straight away, but we still had a laugh about it. I can't imagine what those with bis are hitting

Bard
Pros-
High burst
Lots of CDs to stack or save
Loved for Foes
Repelling shot is actually the shit
Mobility even with cast times

Cons-
Mana slave [When your healers struggle, you suffer :(]

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Originally Posted by Yhoiryo

Better to run some parses instead.

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You shouldn't tell players to violate ToS....

to OP, I think Monk is second highest burst on single target

Mix it up and try different jobs to see what you like playing best. Almost any job can be at the top as long as it's played with skill. All four of the dps on my static vie for top place. It really depends on the fight and how everyone plays. But yeah, like everyone said, aggro =/= top dps. If anything, when a dps rips hate off the tank and they have the tools not to do so, they're not playing their job properly.

Single target: MNK.
AoE: SMN.
Single target and AoE: BLM.

Big burst: MCH, BRD and BLM.
Balanced burst: NIN and DRG.
Low burst: SMN and MNK.

Jobs with big bursts have abilities to lower their enmity generation and must use them before their openers. Even mid fight where their opener is ready again.

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Originally Posted by Yeol

Jobs with big bursts have abilities to lower their enmity generation and must use them before their openers. Even mid fight where your opener is ready again.

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they can but surely must not use them... if the tank(s) are aware of the impact they'll be fine. and as a side note... buffed DW every 60 seconds is calling low burst nowadays? (well... yeah i know, i know without stacks smns are worth a shit but that shouldn't be the generally situation. if we talk about that we can talk about messed up rotations at all for any cls)

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Originally Posted by Neela

they can but surely must not use them... if the tank(s) are aware of the impact they'll be fine. and as a side note... buffed DW every 60 seconds is calling low burst nowadays? (well... yeah i know, i know without stacks smns are worth a shit but that shouldn't be the generally situation. if we talk about that we can talk about messed up rotations at all for any cls)

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If your MT wants to hold 1500+ dps in dps stance, yeah they must use them. And if you had a NIN "Shadewalker" is a must.

When I said SMN has low burst I didn't mean it is shity xD (I apologize if it came out that way).
It is just lower than other jobs when it comes to bursting on single target.
Our SMN usually is top dps after MCH and NIN finish their openers, till the end of the fight he holds his position like a boss.

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Originally Posted by kingatlas

You shouldn't tell players to violate ToS....

to OP, I think Monk is second highest burst on single target

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It's a gray area, SE won't ban you for parsing yourself to improve your gameplay.

It's when you bring it up, telling people that you parse and worst case, telling other people that they're doing poor dps as they can report you for it.

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Originally Posted by Neela

they can but surely must not use them... if the tank(s) are aware of the impact they'll be fine. and as a side note... buffed DW every 60 seconds is calling low burst nowadays? (well... yeah i know, i know without stacks smns are worth a shit but that shouldn't be the generally situation. if we talk about that we can talk about messed up rotations at all for any cls)

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TBH SMN's really bring a lot more DPS, even out of DWT. Thanks to R3 having a 200 potency it should be used out of DWT as SMN's can be flexable with mp.

I do agree, SMN is a pretty perfect class. Even on mono target it can come really close to a BLM, and on aoe it is godlike. Plus virus, E4E, and res are a very decent stuff to put out on a fight.
But my favorite dps class is SCH, by far. ( hihi)