the 2016 Frontline tier list

[Kyani]

On dps:

- Summoner is obviously known to be amazing, but it has real trouble against Testudo and tank LB in general. If you can stifle a summoner, it's basically useless for the next minute against decent healers.
- Black Mage is the best utility of all DPS, with sleep and freeze. Its damage isn't as good as Summoner, but Swift+Sharp Thunder gives you some good sustained potential.
- Ninjas are great at ambushing people and are probably the best class at landing a limit break
- Machinists are annoying as hell on nodes, but aren't actually that interesting otherwise afaik. Between the Eyes does silly damage, though, and turrets are powerful enough where you'd really like some around.
- Dragoon does a ton of damage, but can have trouble with uptime compared to Warrior.
- Bards don't do great damage, but they're great at interrupting casts at a distance that no one else can really match.
- If you're not Nex Cross, please don't play Monk.

Also, Dark Knight is bad and your best case scenario is being a slightly beefier Machinist turret.