Quote Originally Posted by ViviAnimus View Post
Turret DPS would be great, mate. Unfortunately, only on T8 you can turret DPS. And EVEN so, on my BLM on T8, I can get to about 350 DPS while on my SMN I can do about 360-370. Even when a Black Mage stands still almost all of the time, the DPS will still be on the lower side if you have equally skilled players playing other classes. Is that really so hard to understand? The Black Mage buff is very much needed. I hope you see the contradiction in a turret DPS not being able to even get over all the rest of the DPS while FULLY utilizing not moving, using everything the right way.
My group's black mage, with an average ilvl of mostly equivalent and equally skilled fellow DPS, is ahead or behind my group's DRG and SMN by 1 to 2% depending on procs, and is ahead of the bard (on t8, which is me with the High Allagan bow) by around 7%. The only dps that is an outlier is the MNK, and he is only 8% ahead on average. There have even been pulls where he was outparsing everyone by up to 2%.

I don't know what to tell you. He could be the ~1% that makes a class massively outperform what it's supposed to do, but I don't think so. The skill floor on Black Mage as a class is pretty low (It's very easy to be bad at knowing how to stand still in a fight, and I mean this honestly), but the skill ceiling seems to be extremely competitive with other DPS classes outside of monks on average.