Dear Dragoons. Your AoE is actually good.

[Alistaire]

That is the most well-thought out terrible statement I've heard in a while.

The main thing to look at is to get the pulls done quick.

At 6+ enemies most jobs are better off standing around waiting for tp to come back to do more aoe moves on them than doing single target moves.

There's 2 #s you'll see, "more damage per gcd", and "more damage per point of tp". When you do more damage per tp spent aoe'ing, it will always be better to do that than to do any form of single-target, even when you need to wait a tic to do another aoe move.

As for thread title, I think it's almost missing the point. Dragoons, ninjas, whoever, even if your aoe isn't "good" compared to other jobs, it doesn't mean it's ok to sit there and do even less than what your subpar aoe would do by hitting things single-target when your aoe would outmatch that.

The NIN could go about 333 seconds before going into TP starvation.

I'm sorry, if a single trash pull in a dungeon goes anywhere near that I'm ditchin.