Samurai Feedback Post

[wereotter]

The issue is that Square Enix will not take into account DPS utility when balancing DPS classes, meaning Samurai and Black Mage will always get the raw end of the stick

I think they started with that intent when Stormblood launched with how much utility jobs like SMN and DRG have, so they rightly started the expansion with lower damage. Then Square caved to the complaints and buffed the jobs so that now jobs have both high damage, utility, and mobility regarding mechanics. This is blatantly in contrast to their initially stated goal that high mobility, high utility jobs would have low personal DPS.

[HaroldSaxon]

I think they started with that intent when Stormblood launched with how much utility jobs like SMN and DRG have, so they rightly started the expansion with lower damage. Then Square caved to the complaints and buffed the jobs so that now jobs have both high damage, utility, and mobility regarding mechanics. This is blatantly in contrast to their initially stated goal that high mobility, high utility jobs would have low personal DPS.

I'm not so sure. Utility classes were still strong in 4.0 - hell, BLM was utterly broken in a bad way - both damage wise and rotationally back then. While DRG, MCH and SMN did get buffs, Bard was still very strong, as was Ninja. RDM was also a bit stronger, albeit due to a bug.