Originally Posted by
Saefinn
I think this is always an important thing to remember and kinda why I don't like the "meta" mentality. If you're going to pure optimisation at the top percentile, maybe it works, but the majority of the player base does not fit into that category. I see more value in people who love and are really into the job they play and get the most out of it than one who has picked it because it's "meta". Generally when somebody loves their job and dedicated to the roll, then they will find ways to maximise it and make up for its shortcomings. I was like this with ARR SCH, I know somebody who was like this with HW MCH (when they were rejected for MCH's low DPS), I've known a couple of MNK's like this and so on.
Personally, I love playing DNC and will be pushing to try and maximise my own DPS out of it and the group DPS. The only problem I have at the moment is if there is a dip in latency, it can interrupt the flow, but that's the same with similar jobs. I don't mind the RNG, because it's not infrequent enough to make me hate it but more procs wouldn't go amiss, it does play a little bit like HW MCH, but I also liked HW MCH. The latency may have something to do with being in the UK whilst being on a US server, however, I'm one of those RP weirdos and that's where the RP community at. There are a couple of VPN's claiming they'll improve latency, so I might try them, see how they do.