SAM out classing all other DPS

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This pretty much ended her argument right here there are way more SAMs then anything else besides RDM so the data is a bit biased currently....

There is no bias in data.

If your argument is just that the class is so overwhelmingly popular that it eclipses even Red Mage, and that it just happens that all these super skilled players are all playing SAM simultaneously, that still sets off alarms.

In any other game, if all the top players or even most of the top players are always using the same character or one character in their team, party or whatever, that character is eventually recognized as imbalanced. Overwatch had the same problem. Mccree had an over 100% use rate at one point in competitive because people would rock two of them in one team. When there's such an imbalance of pick numbers, or in FFXIV's case, parses and/or parties that include SAM vs ones that don't, there's a massive red flag. Popularity does not dictate balance, but to imply that because something is popular you cannot determine it's balance is short sighted.

@Lastelli
I don't care if my job is in the top FFlogs parsing. I really don't. If I cared so badly I'd just play Samurai. I like Samurai. It's a fun class. I'm just being critical of it. Red Mage is too strong, it can raise better than healers, manage mechanics better than BLM, and has more reliable damage than SMN since SMN's damage is purely reliant on burst periods. I must be crazy though, actually criticizing that my class is too good. God forbid.

Edit: Also "no build up time necessary" guess that black/white mana bar is just there for show and does nothing for RDM.