Marauder needs a damage boost now ~

[Defmetal]

Only in FFXIV would you see players advocate for mediocre damage for slow weapons and high damage for fast weapons.

FFXIV really does need some Traits like in FFXI though, a Double Attack trait would probably fix the low damage problem even if its a low trigger rate (it was 10% base in FFXI)

[Rexus]

Only in FFXIV would you see players advocate for mediocre damage for slow weapons and high damage for fast weapons.

I'm definitely not saying it should be like that, but I can see why weapons stats are tailored the way they are. If axes had as much, or more attack than lances, no one would be able to get even close to their AoE damage. Your typically used axes have higher Acc/Crit/Parry than lances. MRD has skills that enhance crit and parry rate. There are reasons why MRD weapons don't have the highest DPS.

LNC has an obvious edge over MRD DPS because...it's a pure DD job. It seems like a good chunk of people only view MRD as a DD, not a DPS Tank hyprid. Really, it's kind of scary how easily some people call 'gimp' on a class when we have just touched the surface of what classes (and eventually, jobs) are to become.

[Lienn]

I'm definitely not saying it should be like that, but I can see why weapons stats are tailored the way they are. If axes had as much, or more attack than lances, no one would be able to get even close to their AoE damage. Your typically used axes have higher Acc/Crit/Parry than lances. MRD has skills that enhance crit and parry rate. There are reasons why MRD weapons don't have the highest DPS.

LNC has an obvious edge over MRD DPS because...it's a pure DD job. It seems like a good chunk of people only view MRD as a DD, not a DPS Tank hyprid. Really, it's kind of scary how easily some people call 'gimp' on a class when we have just touched the surface of what classes (and eventually, jobs) are to become.

Now we're getting into an agreement! Agree completely with your post. MRD does wasn't designed for single target fight. It cannot WS for the same as a single target DD does because often its damage will spread against multiple targets. Its the basic of tactical board battle...when you calculate the damage you actually need to consider all targets involved... An example would be you having a dude "L" that can deal 30 damage to a single target...then you have the dude "M" who can deal 10 to 4 targets at same time. When you look straight to the main target you will say L owned M by far...30 is way stronger than 10...but if you look to battle as a whole, M actually was more effective than L because the total spread damage was of 40. This is the base where MRD was built on...the multiple targets fighter, focusing on spreading damage instead of deling optimal damage in a single target.