Quote Originally Posted by RiyahArp View Post
but you are comparing this to other classes, when it should be on whether or not the job clears content.
In that case, they should never touch the jobs again. Everything can clear.

There is a stark difference between viability and balance. If certain jobs are superior to their counterparts people will be naturally inclined to favour those jobs, albeit with some exceptions (Machinist). Can Dark Knight clear Savage? Absolutely. It still has a harder time doing it while equally benefiting the group less. Now in more casual oriented groups, they aren't going to care. The higher up the totem pole you climb the more likely you'll come across people who value more than simply clearing. For myself, I use FFlogs as a silly little "achievement" system no different than PS4 Trophies. I reach say, 70, then try to best myself each week. That keeps Savage interesting for me (key word: me). Without it, I would simply get the gear I want and move on to something else. Granted, with Ultimate, I'll likely do that regardless.

I suppose the simple question to ask is: Why should Dark Knight mains just accept their job has inferior utility, DPS and mitigation tools? Should Samurai mains also enjoy the fact they offer absolutely nothing to their group and will soon be out-dpsed by Monk? People like to feel their job of choice contributes on a close enough playing field.

Ultimate is content so hard that barely 2k people or so have cleared it in NA. It shouldn't be used as any balance example pro or con, any more than RDM clearing floor 200 in POTD means we need to rebalance jobs too.
On a rare occasion, we agree. Hence why I find "but it cleared Ultimate!!" little more than a cop out.