Can we please stop giving melee bad stigma?

[Artemiz]

You guys want Advanced Combat Tracker or FFXIV App?

I can't help but think your parser results are screwed up in some way, not taking damage into account or something because my experience is the exact opposite of yours, I don't parse in FF14 but even so the results of patch 2.1 where obvious to me. Before 2.1 I would have agreed with you, for just about any mob I could easily out damage melee but not now. If melee don't have to play the hokey cokey then I'll struggle to out DPS them unless I out gear them by quite a bit. As a BLM I'm king of AoE, I'm happy with that and in terms of damage potential I think it's about right as it is, melee are the ST specialists and they're good at it.

[NoctisUmbra]

I can't help but think your parser results are screwed up in some way, not taking damage into account or something because my experience is the exact opposite of yours, I don't parse in FF14 but even so the results of patch 2.1 where obvious to me. Before 2.1 I would have agreed with you, for just about any mob I could easily out damage melee but not now. If melee don't have to play the hokey cokey then I'll struggle to out DPS them unless I out gear them by quite a bit. As a BLM I'm king of AoE, I'm happy with that and in terms of damage potential I think it's about right as it is, melee are the ST specialists and they're good at it.

It wasn't really any different in 2.0. A competent MNK could still far exceed any ranged in single target. Only difference then was DRG wasn't as good.

As far as DPS ceilings go, BRD had the lowest and still remains the lowest. The high mobility of the job, however, lends to them being able to perform more consistently and reliably in content. Where content that requires a lot of movement, like extreme primals, can seriously inhibit the performance of a BLM, a BRD will barely be affected.