Top DPS in you t5 clearing groups?

[PenutButter]

T1: MNK. A good SMN can compete or even beat MNK if he's DoT both. DRG comes real close to MNK. And no, a BRD should NEVER beat an equally geared MNK or DRG who plays correctly, even if he's DoT both.

T2: Enraged = MNK. Normal = MNK ideally but T2 is hell for melee.

T4: BLM on AoE and total damage. MNK on single target and 2nd overall if he knows how to manage his TP for some AoE. Bane only affects 3 targets; if there are a lot of targets, SMN can't even beat MNK, DRG, and even BRD in AoE if those jobs are going all out, so no freaking way they gonna beat BLM. If you lose to a SMN on this turn as BLM, I'm sorry but you fail HARD.

T5: MNK or SMN. Ideally MNK but SMN have a MUCH easier time this turn. However, SMN is perhaps the hardest job to master so you have to know your SMN.

Finally, its TOTAL damage that matters the most.. Fortunately, 99% of time, total damage and overall dps correspond, assuming you set it so that you lose DPS if you stop doing damage, such as being dead.

[Shizuna]

Finally, its TOTAL damage that matters the most.. Fortunately, 99% of time, total damage and overall dps correspond, assuming you set it so that you lose DPS if you stop doing damage, such as being dead.

I agree with total damage mattering the most, since everyone I parsed with had different numbers for some reason even though everyone I know uses ACT. You can say that you are parsing over 320+ and yet be doing less total damage than the one who parsed like 290-300.


Overall, in my static:
T1 - SMN / BRD almost outdps
T2 - SMN (I feel like this depends on what route your taking. There's one where ADS get slight damage reduction to magic damage and the other is piercing and blunt damage.)
T4 - BLM / SMN
T5 - SMN

[Shizuna]

T4: BLM on AoE and total damage. MNK on single target and 2nd overall if he knows how to manage his TP for some AoE. Bane only affects 3 targets; if there are a lot of targets, SMN can't even beat MNK, DRG, and even BRD in AoE if those jobs are going all out, so no freaking way they gonna beat BLM. If you lose to a SMN on this turn as BLM, I'm sorry but you fail HARD.

I will have to disagree on this though. SMN do have the ability to outdps almost anyone. SMN should DoT the non-Bane targets and use Miasma 2, Shadowflare, and Rouse+Enkindle. I would even use bane twice in t4 for the spider mobs.

Here's 2 instances where I did the most damage than almost everyone in my party:
http://i.imgur.com/a64EqTC.png (123664 total damage. I barely outdps the BLM here, but he's not usually in the static.)
http://i.imgur.com/SSf5RsB.png (122580 total damage. Now, this is my static BLM and we had a different DRG in this one.)