Can we please stop giving melee bad stigma?

[PriyaJugulataris]

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You do realize Yoshi-P did say the summoner is still top ST damage right?
SMN/Monks usually top the charts atm but it's all around silly.
Melee population has a higher learning curve, and also a moderate amount of bad players which make for a higher percentage of bad melee.
Hell, I prefer having one melee and one blm/summoner/bard for fights because of such.
But it depends on content. Titan EX? idgaf. Ifrit EX? idgaf. Garuda Ex? if the everyone can change their strategy idgaf.
Just find good players, make friends with them, and run with your friends.

[NoctisUmbra]

You do realize Yoshi-P did say the summoner is still top ST damage right?

I'd like to see where Yoshi P said this. Then I will look at it and laugh.

SMN is most definitely not top single target DPS. It excels when there are multiple targets because it then has the ability to use DoTs on more than one target instead of spamming Ruin, making for an effective DPS increase.

MNK and DRG are kings of single target DPS by a significant margin when comparing DPS caps. How much this translates to content depends highly on player skill, and given content.

[Ricdeau]

You do realize Yoshi-P did say the summoner is still top ST damage right?
SMN/Monks usually top the charts atm but it's all around silly.
Melee population has a higher learning curve, and also a moderate amount of bad players which make for a higher percentage of bad melee.
Hell, I prefer having one melee and one blm/summoner/bard for fights because of such.
But it depends on content. Titan EX? idgaf. Ifrit EX? idgaf. Garuda Ex? if the everyone can change their strategy idgaf.
Just find good players, make friends with them, and run with your friends.

I wasn't trying to say that ranged was incapable of topping DPS. I was pointing out that melee are easily capable of it on most content contrary to what was said by xEscaflownex. Specific content does have a baring on what class excels, but the statement that melee can't top any current content is just mind boggling.