Can we talk about how mnk, drg, and blm are blatantly overpowered right now?

I chose Dancer as my choice of DPS. Have I shot my own leg?

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Originally Posted by Vendalwind

It is litterally not based on feelings. Every argument ive stated has been logic and math.

Every single fracking one.

You also choose to intentionally omit 50th percentile below. Thats cherry picking and is in fact feely craft. And if you look sub 50 it will become clear that trick is variable with party skill.

And keep in mind raid dps is more rounded out when other buffers are in a group too.


Insteas of dismissing the idea because of your poor cherry picked fact above consider doing the following instead;

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Let's look at lower percentile and let's see how "Cherry picked" my trick attack "feely craft" is


10% Percentile - 791 DPS (or 7.7% of total DPS)
25% Percentile - 818 DPS (or 7.6% of total DPS)
40% Percentile - 826 DPS (or 7.5% of total DPS)
50% Percentile - 843 DPS (or 7.5% of total DPS)
75% Percentile - 846 DPS (or 7.3% of total DPS)
90% Percentile - 878 DPS (or 7.3% of total DPS)
95% Percentile - 907 DPS (or 7.4% of total DPS)
99% Percentile - 954 DPS (or 7.4% of total DPS)

Still not seeing the math to back up trick attack being massively group dependant on average. (also a NiN will typically make up around 13% of the difference with their own personal dps)

Theres plenty of valid reasons to advocate for buffs but "my dps utility is very sensitive to my group" is demonstrably not one of them.


None of the above is perfect but there really isn't any indication that this is an observable thing that's occurring in any kind of numbers.

Where are you looking to get the trick attack percentage for each percentile?

EDIT, I see you're just taking the PDPS and RDPS numbers.

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Originally Posted by Makrar

Let's look at lower percentile and let's see how "Cherry picked" my trick attack "feely craft" is


10% Percentile - 791 DPS (or 7.7% of total DPS)
25% Percentile - 818 DPS (or 7.6% of total DPS)
40% Percentile - 826 DPS (or 7.5% of total DPS)
50% Percentile - 843 DPS (or 7.5% of total DPS)
75% Percentile - 846 DPS (or 7.3% of total DPS)
90% Percentile - 878 DPS (or 7.3% of total DPS)
95% Percentile - 907 DPS (or 7.4% of total DPS)
99% Percentile - 954 DPS (or 7.4% of total DPS)

Still not seeing the math to back up trick attack being massively group dependant on average. (also a NiN will typically make up around 13% of the difference with their own personal dps)

Theres plenty of valid reasons to advocate for buffs but "my dps utility is very sensitive to my group" is demonstrably not one of them.


None of the above is perfect but there really isn't any indication that this is an observable thing that's occurring in any kind of numbers.

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You are right, that is definitely not as significant a gap as I would have expected. I can tell you tho in my personal runs i have seen bigger disparities. (that is definitely a feely statement) Where are you getting this info? PM it to me or something because im actually legitimately interested, i Dont know how to navigate our resources to find that info so concisely.

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The problem with your above is looking at it as % of the NIN's total contribution. Thats not how it should be observed, but rather the percent in and of itself valued. IE 791/954 yielding an 18% difference and a gap of 163 rDPS, additionally compared with the total skill gap the NIN has in pDPS as well.
In a perfect balance world many people say the balance between classes should be ~500 dps from worst class to best within a role, so when looking at NIN having the trick allow for a 163~ dps gap is actually fairly significant.

It is still how you look at it tho. I'm operating under the hope that balance is much more aligned. If you check that post I linked in an earlier statement my theoretical improvement the a 2 raid 2 utility dps should gain over a 4 pure man dps group happens to be exactly... 400 dps. That was with 2 utility dps considered. Meaning I expected in my theoretical analysis to see ~200 rDPS gained by proper group comp as compared to improper. Which is interestingly close to 163.

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Originally Posted by SaberMaxwell

What? lol

BRDs and MCHs refused to party without a DRG a lot of the time because of shown pDPS, not rDPS. It wasn't "I like you cuz you increase my numbers," it was "I don't want to party with you because you don't." MNKs abandoned for NIN, SAMs abandoned for anything, BLMs abandoned for SMN, when pDPS was all that was shown people only cared about the jobs that could boost their pDPS. With rDPS and aDPS, we get a much clearer picture of where jobs stand in a hierarchy, and the team comps that are prioritized for highest rDPS...give the highest raid-wide DPS now.

There are drawbacks with anything, but in my opinion rDPS paints a much better picture of job (not necessarily player) performance.

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...... what part of my post confuses you. During the time of pdps being shown onlogs "i like you because you buff my numbers" like how brd and mch would prefer to not raid with anyone but a drg... how is what you said different besides being like entering a building with the left door instead of the right?.

And that when it went to rdps, it became "now you just want me to pad your numbers"

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Originally Posted by Shurrikhan

For this additional effort for which their metrics of performance will never increase they are called "selfish".
Meanwhile, jobs whose rDPS is literally carried by their party are considered the more "selfless" jobs.

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As what this implied. Which is not what was intended. It was intended to show the worth of a class with less pdps, without you having to manually do the math yourself. But now since logs show rdps, now the utility classes get the "padding"

@Shurrikhan

And before we continue the tangent on the meaning for the term 'selfish dps'. The fact that you knew what they meant and slapped them with it anyway is the problem. Instead of going "i dont like the term as its outdated" you then distorted what they were trying to say. So you even FURTHERED any person misreading what they meant.

A utility dps, sacrifices their pdps to give utility to the pure dps (since you dont like 'selfish dps') who then works with it to bring more damage for the raid as a whole. By this and your logic no class is actually selfish by your way of using the word. Since this is a teamwork based game.

You just went out of your way to prove a point. Granted, most of us posting on forums do.

There are two things you need to remember to account for when looking at the value of trick attack now.

1. Most of the really good players have fled the job to play mnk and drg.
Players like that have no qualms jumping onto whatever is strong at the moment to reap the benefits, and not waste their time. What this means is that current top end NIN performance is missing a lot of the 'usual suspects' (and their very excellent groups) who would have shown you what truly optimal trick attack usage looks like. A '99' now would probably be more like a 90 or 95 if all the good players came back to play NIN, so their ceiling is basically artificially depressed.

Just look at the fastest runs for all the savage bosses in the speed category (these are the runs with the highest raid dps, as high rdps = faster kill), see how far you have to scroll before you find a group with a ninja, and how rare they are.

2. The proportion of total NIN damage that trick attack accounts for being invariant across percentiles is fairly normal
The reason it's the same is because even though 99th percentile groups are better than 10th percentile groups at taking advantage of trick attack, 99th percentile ninjas are also just plain better than 10th percentile ninjas at their own personal rotations. So their own personal damage goes up, as does how good their 7 group members are at dumping damage into trick attack - which keeps the proportion even across the board. Now, if you don't want it to be 'even', all you need to do is take that 10th percentile NIN and put them in a 99th percentile group, then you'd see trick attack's contribution proportion rise from 7% to 10% or something. Put a good ninja in a bad group, and it'll go below

What you should be looking at is the absolute value of the dps increase from trick attack, which does increase as you can see. And you can certainly argue that it or ninja's personal dps needs to be buffed, as clearly even combining the two (via rdps parsing) they don't even approach monk and dragoon numbers - but I don't see anyone disputing that here.

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Originally Posted by Makrar

Selfish DPS need good groups as well to parse well - this isnt some unique stipulation that applies to non selfish dps

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This statement is now outdated with the advent of raid dps as the main mode of ranking. I'm a little unsure what you mean by it actually because nothing in your comment addresses it or proves it at all, you just talked about ninja instead of selfish dps. When it comes to raid dps, selfish jobs now do the exact same damage in every fight because any damage they would gain from 'good groups' and their buffs wouldn't have been added to them anyway. No longer do you need to worry about whether your bard knows how to foes on time or not, you'll be credited for your performance the exact same way no matter which group you're in.

Conversely, under this mode of parsing it's support jobs that have the burden of being dependent on their group. You might be a 99th percentile ninja in terms of personal skill, but if your group does not know how to make use of your trick attack, you won't get as much dps credit from it as other ninjas which will result in a 90 or 95th percentile parse in reality.

Edit: I'd actually like to know where you got those original trick attack numbers from in the first place, did you just choose random ninja parses at each percentile tier or something?
https://www.fflogs.com/reports/kd4D9...translate=true
Look at this log from the current rank 2 ninja on Titan. Mouse over their rdps number and you see 1381.5 dps has been credited to trick attack, out of their 13507 rdps total. That's 10.2%, so...

gonna let ya know mnk/drg grey parse is better than a ninja 80-99 parse sooo thats saying a-lot Especially if your just trying help pugs on Nin and just get booted out for just being a Ninja literally enter pf gets kicked...fully geared nin begone...

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Originally Posted by TaiyouSeishin

...... what part of my post confuses you. During the time of pdps being shown onlogs "i like you because you buff my numbers" like how brd and mch would prefer to not raid with anyone but a drg... how is what you said different besides being like entering a building with the left door instead of the right?.

And that when it went to rdps, it became "now you just want me to pad your numbers"

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Just the part where you're saying it wasn't always "you just want me to pad your numbers." Why take a nin? Trick Attack. Why? It pads numbers. Why take DRG? Litany, piercing, tether. Why? Pads numbers.

Number padding is less possible with rDPS than before, where before everyone could single Target buff a singular player to get them an orange. Now if you really want to go out of your way to pad you'd need to more or less handpick the whole static to have a composition your job would do best in.

Which is a very comp focused way of padding, contrary to your original stated complaint about rDPS.

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I dont disagree with anything you're saying here - Ninja needs a buff (a big one) along with increases across the board for the lowest performers. What i wanted to highlight that the rDPS scaling more to the group performance while there, its not something that is massively impactful when averaged out. IE - there shouldnt be bigs buffs added on top of proper tuning because you provide a dps buff/debuff.

They should get buffs so they roughly equal/ slightly ahead or slightly below everyone else once all things are taken in consideration


The numbers was taken from the Ninja rdps - adps from the aggregated data summary across 4 fights. It wouldnt surprise me if the max value of trick attack achieved by a group was double the average if not more. I mostly picked Trick Attack as an example because its an easy point to look at and the same behavior should hold true across the jobs.

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...... what part of my post confuses you. During the time of pdps being shown onlogs "i like you because you buff my numbers" like how brd and mch would prefer to not raid with anyone but a drg... how is what you said different besides being like entering a building with the left door instead of the right?.

And that when it went to rdps, it became "now you just want me to pad your numbers"

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To be fair, your second point literally means the same thing as the first (or is very poorly explained, as you're not really talking about how the padding in the second point is happening - unless you're talking about speedrun padding, which was always a thing), which is where the confusion is coming from. The only padding that's really possible now is based on how well other party members are taking advantage of any party buffs you may provide, rather than super buffing one party member to high heaven for the sake of a ranking on a website.

On that note, I see the switch from total DPS to raid DPS as something that's highly interesting in how it altered community mindset, and shows how much power FFLogs has on the raid community. Before the switch, people were calling Dancer being the new meta, and kept saying that Bards were going to be dead. So many people were making plans to include Dancer in their raid parties purely because they wanted said Dancer to pad their personal numbers on a website ranking. This incredible overreaction led to the site owner switching to raid DPS display where damage contribution from party buffs is no longer credited to the beneficiary of said buff, and added to the original caster instead. Almost immediately, Dancers got dropped overnight, especially when data started coming in, showing that Dancer's actual party contribution really did not make up for their low personal DPS. (Ninja too, but the Ninjas noticed what was happening long before the DPS display switch, since Trick Attack contribution isn't as obvious as a Dancer supporting a single party member.)

I'm of the mindset that the change to this raid DPS display is still one of the best things to happen to the community, because it shifted the community away from enforcing a more unnatural meta based around stacking party buffs to inflate one's personal ranking on a third party website, and instead exposed fundamental design/balance flaws inherent between the classes themselves. Had we kept with the old system, we'd have ended up with an underpowered support class (or two if you include Ninja), where a large portion of the community would have argued for them to remain as is because 'they get guaranteed raid slots due to being good at directly padding other people's numbers'. I noted a shift in behavior among Red Mages especially, as I don't really see them holding back Embolden during their openers for their own numbers anymore - which is a net positive on the teamwork scale. I'm also really of the mindset that if this change happened a whole expansion sooner, this support/piercing meta wouldn't have dominated the SB raid scene as much as it did, and Black Mages/Samurai would have been more readily accepted into parties. (Red Mages would have still been screwed though, and Ninja likely wouldn't have been considered a meta class.)

(And another positive is that this raid DPS display made it disgustingly clear that Monk and Dragoon especially are just straight overpowered, since they're not categorized as selfish DPS and yet have the damage output matching them + party buffs on top of that. It also shows that the gap between Black Mage and the other two casters is far wider than anything considered reasonable, and that the other two are being taxed far too much for possessing Raise. Staying on the old system would have likely muddled the waters a lot, because people would still be placing emphasis on data revolving around a smaller pool of classes in regards to party composition - even though the averages under the old system would eventually display a similar disparity between classes that the raid DPS shows, the numbers on the higher end of the data points would have exclusively revolved around specific party setups.)

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Originally Posted by SaitoHikari

On that note, I see the switch from total DPS to raid DPS as something that's highly interesting in how it altered community mindset

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I don't think it's switched all that much. It's "How gud I am". Seems like a pretty sour outlook, but fact of the matter is, the raid scene in any game is competitive, and having a ranking system provides impetus, wherever it's rooted (Self competition, inter-competition, end result, ego, whatever), to rank higher.

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Originally Posted by Kabooa

I don't think it's switched all that much. It's "How gud I am". Seems like a pretty sour outlook, but fact of the matter is, the raid scene in any game is competitive, and having a ranking system provides impetus, wherever it's rooted (Self competition, inter-competition, end result, ego, whatever), to rank higher.

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Well, the 'how gud I am' mindset hasn't changed at all, that isn't something I intend to dispute.

What I was saying is that the reasons behind taking specific classes (and the community perception of said classes) changed. Again, if the old display was still in use, I guarantee you that people would still be calling Dancers overpowered for community-enforced reasons beyond SE's original intent, and that would have made it difficult to argue for adjustments to Dancer even if said adjustments could have been for non-raiding quality of life reasons. The 'raw DPS' classes also wouldn't be as readily accepted as they are now either - the way I see it, classes like Black Mage are actually in the same spot now as they were back in SB, what changed is that people are putting less emphasis on taking classes for their ability to inflate everyone else's numbers (since that doesn't really exist anymore outside of speed kills, and that's closer to a player skill metric rather than class balance).

Whatever they do with NIN, I just hope they dont touch our ogcd ninjutsu.. oof... Just the thought of it scares me. They already put so many nails in the coffin. GCD Ninjutsu gonna be the last nail to a dead class Imo. Probably great for casuals tho. Yay...

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Whatever they do with NIN, I just hope they dont touch our ogcd ninjutsu.. oof... Just the thought of it scares me. They already put so many nails in the coffin. GCD Ninjutsu gonna be the last nail to a dead class Imo. Probably great for casuals tho. Yay...

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Well given everyone on the forums is a casual, it sounds great to me.

I'm going to pipe up because I hope SE pays attention to these things.

From my perspective as a 2.0+ SMN main; I look at the state of difference between BLM and SMN and I'm in shock. The justifications for it are complete and utter crap.

DPS raise is a heavy tax to see a few more mechanics or maybe get that once in a 1000 savage clear because of a raise. Eden savage right now is so tight that a SMN or RDM having to complete the raise at all is probably a grounds for enrage. So what's the point. I say take it, I don't want it. I hardly even use it unless both healers go down and when that happens it's likely a wipe anyway. And in truth, this has always been the case to various degrees in raid/savage content.
No. Just No. Raise is given too much weight as a non-direct rDPS contributing metric. It's a novel "oh crap" button that usually results in not much of anything in high level encounters. If it's a high enough tax to send SMN to the bottom 3rd, I surrender that BS. You can have it.
It's value is in casual content, like Eureka and dungeons. Even then it's just a community QOL skill, nothing more.

If you take raise away (but I think even with it), there is ZERO reason my rDPS on SMN shouldn't be equal to or even greater than BLM whatsoever. And in terms of "knowing the fight" or "being a turret" I'd argue that with SMNs current rotation and sh--show of broken pet/demi mechanics, we have it harder than BLM ever did.

For the first time ever (and there were some low points), I feel like abandoning my all time main. And I'm not alone. I've put a lot of energy into being as exceptional at SMN as I can and I cannot be asked to do the same from the ground up on another job. Most importantly, I shouldn't feel like I need to.

So yes, at least from the caster perspective either BLM is to over-tuned or SMN is to under-tuned. And doing less DPS on dungeons trash pulls then most fells bad (I mean at least we had the AoE king title in the low times), but that's a whole different story.

Welcome to the game state where all utilities are nerfed and combo removed to non-existent. Everything is homogenized into damage ditching dps number and guess who become OP and who become unwanted.....-_-

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Smn never should have even been close to where it has been in the past. You should never have provided equal damage contribution while having a raise, and especially not greater damage. Raise is valuable, it always has been, and it shouldn't have been free to have.

If you honestly believe it doesn't have value, where were you in stormblood when rdm did substantially less damage than smn? By your logic, you think they should have the same, sometimes "EVEN GREATER" damage than smn if things were reballanced to what you want, but you don't agree with that last bit, do you? You just want your Mary Sue smn back to being the best prog, speedrun, and open world/solo job and pretending it's balance.

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Originally Posted by Siccoroa

Can we talk about how monk, dragoon, black mage, and, to a lesser extent, samurai are overpowered right now?

Currently i think that smn, mch, nin, brd, rdm, and dnc are all well balanced number wise, no matter which of those you choose to play they all bring roughly the same raid dps. The difference in dps between smn, the highest dps, and dnc, the lowest dps, is less than 300 raid dps.

For comparison, sam does 500 more raid dps than smn. Drg does 900 more raid dps than smn. Blm does 1000 more raid dps than smn. Mnk does a whopping 1200 more raid dps than smn.

In my opinion it would be much better for the balance of the game if every dps brought roughly the same amount of raid dps.

Source for dps numbers: https://www.fflogs.com/zone/statisti...unt&dataset=90

Edit: Explanation for raid DPS vs personal dps

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Great...even more homogenization. That will totally make the game more fun like what happen right now....not!

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Originally Posted by TcomJ

Great...even more homogenization. That will totally make the game more fun like what happen right now....not!

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Having all dps classes do the same damage does not necessarily mean they're all the same, they can be all different in terms of gameplay but all equally viable.

I don't think any of those jobs need nerfs, samurai, ninja and summoner need buffs and some adjusts. Asking for nerfs is never the correct decision while buffing the rest will make everyone happy.

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Originally Posted by Umsche

Having all dps classes do the same damage does not necessarily mean they're all the same, they can be all different in terms of gameplay but all equally viable.

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It does means you have to get rid of all their auxiliary tools, and not everyone's okay with that.

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Originally Posted by Zerathor

You just want your Mary Sue back to being the best prog, speedrun, and open world/solo job and pretending it's balance.

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Isn't that what this thread is about? Oh sorry I could've sworn you were talking about black mage for a second.

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Isn't that what this thread is about? Oh sorry I could've sworn you were talking about black mage for a second.

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When the prog actually mattered, Summoners still outnumbered Black Mages, just not by a 31:1 margin.

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Originally Posted by CrashofZenki

Whatever they do with NIN, I just hope they dont touch our ogcd ninjutsu.. oof... Just the thought of it scares me. They already put so many nails in the coffin. GCD Ninjutsu gonna be the last nail to a dead class Imo. Probably great for casuals tho. Yay...

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I wager Mudras will either become like Dancer steps or Gunbreaker's Continuation. I actually like the latter idea myself. It would essentially be TCJ without the lost autos, immobility and etc. Buff Ninja's potencies and maybe slap Trick down to 5%. That would be a good straight to making it feel much better.

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Having all dps classes do the same damage does not necessarily mean they're all the same, they can be all different in terms of gameplay but all equally viable.

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No, that kind of collective mindset will destroy RPG which attracts players to play the genre through individualism.

If you do that, nobody will play the hardest job like BLM and go for say DNC.MCH, Brd then.

What kind of RPG is it that we don't want to have unique buff abilities, role interactions, combos etc. The most brain dead RPG is that what you guys want? That's the biggest oxymoron. RPG is not first shooter game dude.

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No, that kind of collective mindset will destroy RPG which attracts players to play the genre through individualism.

If you do that, nobody will play the hardest job like BLM and go for say DNC.MCH, Brd then.

What kind of RPG is it that we don't want to have unique buff abilities, role interactions, combos etc. The most brain dead RPG is that what you guys want? That's the biggest oxymoron. RPG is not first shooter game dude.

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BLM is hard? That’s news to me lol

Hardest BLM, er?

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Hardest BLM, er?

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Leylines man in savage raid?
I guess since difficulties are subjective, we can overlook that and never take difficulties into consideration at all too either. Otherwise elitism will just ruin the job fantasy for a few anyway.

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"Homogenization" really has just become a meaningless buzzword for people who want the flavor of the month classes to remain at the top forever huh.

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"Homogenization" really has just become a meaningless buzzword for people who want the flavor of the month classes to remain at the top forever huh.

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Would Warriors be complaining about the significantly buffed Inner Release v2 if that were the case? Would DRKs be complaining about copying said Inner Release into their Delirium? They're each optimally bursty, just absent of previously iconic and distinct mechanics. Their loss was gameplay, not performance, and yet both are/were scorned.

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When the prog actually mattered, Summoners still outnumbered Black Mages, just not by a 31:1 margin.

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When the prog actually mattered, that is to say, Titan in early week 1, black mage was undoubtedly the best in slot choice for the caster slot. Even the best groups in the world were not clearing with a death. Give it enough time and that ratio will reverse itself in the easy fights too, these things have inertia like I said.

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"Homogenization" really has just become a meaningless buzzword for people who want the flavor of the month classes to remain at the top forever huh.

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For me, it's not the homogenization; it's the way casters are balanced. Right now, the optimal way to learn and clear content is to use SMN (or RDM) first because of raise and switch to BLM for farming. No other roll has to deal with that. Playing one roll for clearing content, and then another for farming. The raise tax on SMN and RDM are way too high. Balance casters like ranged are balanced. BLM is high damage no utility, SMN is slightly lower damage, some utility, and make RDM low damage, high utility.

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When the prog actually mattered, that is to say, Titan in early week 1, black mage was undoubtedly the best in slot choice for the caster slot. Even the best groups in the world were not clearing with a death. Give it enough time and that ratio will reverse itself in the easy fights too, these things have inertia like I said.

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If we're using the race teams, then Caster is overly represented by Summoners.

When Black Mage was brought, it wasn't unusual that it was replacing Dragoon and paired with Summoner or Red mage.

Oh it's pretty unusual alright, to the point where I decided to stop wasting my time looking down the list when it's mnk drg blm + ranged as far as the eye can see. As for summoner, I've already explained very nicely earlier why the trend looks as such and why it's set to reverse, and I'm not inclined to do so again.

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Oh it's pretty unusual alright, to the point where I decided to stop wasting my time looking down the list when it's mnk drg blm + ranged as far as the eye can see. As for summoner, I've already explained very nicely earlier why the trend looks as such and why it's set to reverse, and I'm not inclined to do so again.

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That's fine. And if nothing changes in the by the time 5.2 rolls around, it'll probably still be Summoner/Red Mage + Black Mage replacing melee for the bleeding edge.

See you next tier :)

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5 months is a long time and we got two slated balance patches let alone what drops with 5.2

Don't worry, Summoner will be undisputed again. Won't that be fun for everyone.

Well at least someone is more optimistic than I am, though for a change I'd be quite happy to be wrong.

My hunch is 5.08 and 5.1 will be nothing but qol changes to dot and egi assault related matters, and no potency changes at all except indirectly. They said as much during the live letter after all, potencies and output were not mentioned explicitly like in the case of ninja and samurai. That'll leave us with a job that plays very slightly better, but still has crippling flaws that have gone unnoticed like trances and energy drain having poor downtime flexibility. All this changes nothing about its pecking order relative to blm.

In the best case scenario, people realize this and smn engagement continues to plummet, the job will be sent back for another look over that won't happen till 5.2 - or later. Worst case, the job turns into machinist where any legitimate flaws are drowned out for good by people - who generally don't raid - talking about how flashy and fun the job is to play.

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5 months is a long time and we got two slated balance patches let alone what drops with 5.2

Don't worry, Summoner will be undisputed again. Won't that be fun for everyone.

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Thing is smn won't kick blm out if they get buffed enough they would kick out all physical ranged, blm is probably solid in group play unless they take the nerf sledgehammer to its face, but physical ranged is in trouble of being irrelevant due to their dps not being good enough compared to the alternatives, people are already thinking 2 melees and 2 blms might be better which is a bit of an oof.

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Well at least someone is more optimistic than I am, though for a change I'd be quite happy to be wrong.

My hunch is 5.08 and 5.1 will be nothing but qol changes to dot and egi assault related matters, and no potency changes at all except indirectly. They said as much during the live letter after all, potencies and output were not mentioned explicitly like in the case of ninja and samurai. That'll leave us with a job that plays very slightly better, but still has crippling flaws that have gone unnoticed like trances and energy drain having poor downtime flexibility. All this changes nothing about its pecking order relative to blm.

In the best case scenario, people realize this and smn engagement continues to plummet, the job will be sent back for another look over that won't happen till 5.2 - or later. Worst case, the job turns into machinist where any legitimate flaws are drowned out for good by people - who generally don't raid - talking about how flashy and fun the job is to play.

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SMN has much bigger issues than just potency increases. Waiting until 5.2 would be dumb. Release a major balance change at the same time as the next raid tier? It would be smart to do it during a non major patch like 5.08 or 5.1.