Quote Originally Posted by Souljacker View Post
This is exactly the real reason that SE does not want us to use a parser. This way we will see how broken the jobs are in relation to one another, and as an answer to this post above me, yes - DPS classes should be within the same realm as one another. Very close, not 100dps apart. This doesn't make them the "same", but it allows them to perform the same "role" as they are supposed to. We cannot have one DPS class so much further ahead than the others because what happens is the others aren't asked to come to the fight. We leave them behind because why would you ever bring an inferior class?
So we should have 1 single DPS class? I mean, that would solve the problem if you want all DPS to be the same and not have an inferior or even superior class.

Each DPS has a role to play. It's a damage dealer (I really dislike that they are referred to as DPS - that's a rate) whose role is to simply deal damage in some way.

Monks deal damage constantly, and the longer they are able to deal that damage constantly, the more powerful it gets (to a point). Once they lose that momentum, their dps plummets as they build it back up again. Dragoon's don't have that problem. Their damage starts of in the middle, and it maintains itself in the middle, with occasional bursts/spikes as needed.

And that is perfectly fine.

If you want to deal the high sustained damage, then take up Monk. If you want to be able to provide that much needed spike damage (either to push a phase change or to take out adds etc), then you have Dragoon.

And it's only in specific circumstances which result in the large disparity becoming obvious, and that's when you are under ideal, or close to, conditions where a particular job excels.

Let's have our Monks dispatch adds swiftly, or maybe we should give them the same kind of AoE power as BLM because BLM is a damage dealer who excels as AoE damage, and it's not fair that Monk isn't able to do that. What's the difference in that suggestion to making Monk and Dragoon stand on equal ground?