Quote Originally Posted by Exiled_Tonberry View Post
I said quite possibly, seeing as they'll be sharing gear and Yoshi stated it'll be a job focusing on high damage output.
No point in doom and gloom until we actually know the lvl 61-70 abilities, though.

Quote Originally Posted by Exiled_Tonberry View Post
As far as what they did to DRG, they pretty much made them mandatory in every composition. You're always going to have a MCH/Bard in your party and DRG monopolizes the piercing debuff. Not only that but they got a huge buff to their DPS capabilities and offers dmg utility to the party in the form of Battle Litany. Compared to Monk who's entire HW toolkit was based around not losing Greased Lightning so often.
Do you even know why they're mandatory in every composition? MCH/BRD dps is high (especially MCH), and the fact that disembowel just increases it makes those two jobs even better. In return, the MCH also buffs physical damage taken by a target, which further buffs their own damage, the BRD's, and the DRG's damage (and probably the NIN too, since the best setup is MCH/BRD/NIN/DRG). These are then all buffed by Trick Attack, and obviously Battle Litany.

The synergy between those four jobs is what made DRG mandatory, not the fact that DRG happened to gain Battle Litany with Heavensward. I'm also not sure what you mean with "huge buff to their dps capabilities", since DRGs aren't the highest current dps.