Questioning the design of TP

[Kevee]

Your single target DPS can't last forever, only if you're conserving by using non-optimal rotations.

[Shaiandra]

Your single target DPS can't last forever, only if you're conserving by using non-optimal rotations.

Fair; but if that's the case, doesn't that make TP classes even worse?

If I'm not mistaken THM doesn't have a long-term resource. Their MP bar goes down and up and down and up, so it's more of a short-term resource that determines when you can/should use spell X and when you can't. So aside from cooldown phases, a THM can maintain sustained DPS for 10 minutes just as well as it can for 5 minutes.

Whereas PGL and LNC have a long-term resource which will eventually deplete, even if you use your only one TP restorer and never Sprint or AoE? Does that seem balanced?..

[Kevee]

Fair; but if that's the case, doesn't that make TP classes even worse?

If I'm not mistaken THM doesn't have a long-term resource. Their MP bar goes down and up and down and up, so it's more of a short-term resource that determines when you can/should use spell X and when you can't. So aside from cooldown phases, a THM can maintain sustained DPS for 10 minutes just as well as it can for 5 minutes.

Whereas PGL and LNC have a long-term resource which will eventually deplete, even if you use your only one TP restorer and never Sprint or AoE? Does that seem balanced?..

THM/BLM is the only class/job that's special, and really, has an infinite resource of gain and decay.

All other DoM classes are subject to long-term mana management.

THM's damage overall does take MP and efficiency into account. Your damage tanks considerably when you're outside of Astral Fire so the more times you have to swap over to Umbral Ice the less overall damage you are doing. It adds up in longer fights.

Anyways, there is no question that the team is doing their best to ensure that fights are balanced so everyone can participate. They will likely not have any sort of AOE heavy battles if it would leave melee totally useless. This was a major problem in 1.0 that they have, I feel, mostly fixed.

Either way, if higher tier fights continue to require a lot of movement, BLMs will have a much harder time than melee do as they have to move around a lot and will keep getting interrupted.

It's an infinite continuing cycle, though.

No other class/job can do that. Once they run low/empty on their resource, they have to STOP or greatly SLOW DOWN what they're doing.

Also, turn 4 is fairly AoE heavy but has been cleared with 3 melees/1 BRD. Paeon does wonders.