Quote Originally Posted by Venur View Post
DPS class deal the damage while support class enhance the damage dealt. For balance sake most MMO will give lower DPS to class bringing buff/debuff since they enhance the raid total damage dealt.

Like you said the monk class just seems to be the only true damage dealing melee class and then everyone else is a tier 2 DPS with buffs. When I heard ninja I didn,t suspected it was a support class at first.
I get that. My only point is that even a Monk depends on a couple support features (Dragon Kick and Mantra) to be a good compositional choice, unless its gear, and therefore its slight dps lead, extends well beyond everyone else's. Ninja is the only dps who needs only to deal damage and rotate its bonus features, with only a faint consideration for composition (Trick Attack timings and Dancing Edge use) and locked out by no particular party makeup. Personally, that's more like what I'd like to see for Samurai. Because so far, that's really only NIN and WAR, each to their respective roles. A true DPS class tends to be more plain, will still be limited in burst to make up for its sustain, and will often have a harder time reaching optimal raid contribution (which will, still, be through support as well).