WAR damage is lacking

[CommanderNarwhal]

top FFlogs show warrior doing 2,385 and dark knight doing 2484 on 9 savage, the argument isn't invalid, its proven

[aleph_null]

top FFlogs show warrior doing 2,385 and dark knight doing 2484 on 9 savage, the argument isn't invalid, its proven

Where the fuck did you pull those numbers from?

https://www.fflogs.com/rankings/13#b...ps&class=Tanks

In every boss' tank dps leaderboard wars take the most spots in the first page. In every fastest clear of each fight the war in the group outdps'd the drk, except in the fastest a9s clear, due to the war not using even a single aoe skill (no overpower no decimate) to maximize dps output on the boss, while drk has dark passenger to hit the adds. Even in a12s where wars go into timegate, they still generally outdps their groups' drk.

The only fight where drk often has more dps than war at similar percentile is a11s due to the OT's jobs in that fight, e.g. picking up adds, moving away for GA100, disengaging for spread optical sight, but at higher percentiles (95%+) war overtook drk again, possibly due to skipping adds and/or optical sights, or having the OT eat vuln stack during spread optical sight.

[Sarcatica]

top FFlogs show warrior doing 2,385 and dark knight doing 2484 on 9 savage, the argument isn't invalid, its proven

In case if this thread is not poking fun, you are probably looking at the speedrun static tab. The reason why DRK and PLD can parse comfortably around the same as WAR if not more, is purely because those top tier teams make it happen.

In a9s as an example, the adds aren't aoed by WAR while DRK contributes sick amount of aoes via Dark Passenger and Salted Earth mostly. This has been heavily experimented by the top raiders, it took them to keep evolving the strat from week3 onwards. Now there is even a strat to get lb3 before faust drops at 2:40ish via Scrapline soaking.

TLDR: WAR loses a bit of DPS for a much higher return from allowing DRK doing more.