Quote Originally Posted by wereotter View Post
Honestly, the piercing debuff is the reason DRG is a mandatory slot in raids, and it's a failure of design when you look at another job, monk in this case, who's blunt damage resistance does absolutely nothing to contribute to party damage. This is where rather than advocate for SAM to get a piercing debuff, maybe we just have magic resistance down and physical resistance down. Divide the melee jobs into two groups so maybe MNK/DRG give physical resist down and NIN/SAM give magic resistance down.
You give it to the tanks. Giving DPS permanent vulnerabilities enforces more party compositions, where as giving it to tanks does not. It wouldn't even have to be different vulnerabilities among them, just each tank job is capable of applying a stack, at 3/6% increased damage taken. Let it go up to 9% if you want to triple tank something.