Quote Originally Posted by Moirear View Post
The amount of spell speed you sacrifice to get a higher crit rate (of not even 25%) on BLM lowers your dps slightly because of long casting times. Throwing around numbers without context or timeframes to measure them by, then saying that if these attacks proc, and if they crit, they might just outburst other DPS jobs?

I don't understand your point. Are you trying to argue that BLM is the best DPS job? Because that would be a laughable sentiment.
Please don't do that.

If you're going to mock one person's argument because they don't have a spreadsheet of parsed numbers between XX DPS versus XX BLM, don't assume his own argument is simply invalid, as neither of you are providing anything beyond opinion at this point.

While I'll lean with Gormogon to a point, it's all about the situation. BLMs do excel in Burst damage, as we're meant to. But if a situation is movement intensive, such as bomb lanes in Brayflox, yes it screws us up unless we just eat things and let the healer deal with it, or ignore us, whichever. A melee DPS should always stay upwards to the highest numbers in a single target fight, but there have been many instances when that's not the case with me either, in movement based fights as well. It does depend on crit and proc chance, but it's simply a chance.

It's also why that player requested a boost for all BLMs during the Tokyo event, because movement is out greatest issue currently.

Also, just to toss it in, depending on the type of content, such as Brayflox, I'll take a second BLM over any other DPS any day of the week. It was one of the things I specifically looked for during my own speedruns for my animus grind. Because whereas another DPS will require a third, or possibly even fourth flare to clear groups of mobs, a second blm 99% of the time ensured that we had everything dead by my second flare, theirs as well. So again, it's all about the situation.