Quote Originally Posted by Lastelli View Post
A 5-10% difference from the second highest dps? Really? I mean we now have the dps - balance column on fflogs so it's not that hard to check that SAM is not actually outdpsing other jobs by a lot.
I'm going to entertain this because I was curious on the actual number.
Let's consider Sunsano EX.
Checking that same column (no-Bal dps), highest SAM is 4.5k (and there's three of them). The highest DRG has 3.8k, again without balance. You can say these are outliers. The second highest SAM is 4.3, and there's a fair number of them. For DRG, the number is 3.7k. This is a 600~700 dps difference. The highest non-bal BRD and MCH were around 3.7k and 3.5k (I think I saw one 3.6k MCH). In the optimal scenario where you have both in your team, you should be getting around 160 dps off the BRD with Disembowel (dots aren't affected by this) and 175 from the MCH.
That's, obviously, 335. So the three Litanies you'll get over the fight and the four dragon sights need to equate 300 raid dps over the course of the whole fight. If you only have a BRD/MCH (more likely), this number becomes 460 dps.
I'm not sure Litany can close that gap.

This whole analysis is also biased pro-DRG- there are a lot more 4.3k+ SAM than there are 3.7k+ DRG, so you'd expect that if you looked at a non-bal 90% percentile, the gap the DRG has to close off sheer utility would be even bigger.
He may be wrong, but what he said warrants thought, and I do think he's right (that's a lot of damage for those two buffs to gain over a 7~8 minute fight).