Quote Originally Posted by Tsilyi View Post
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The development team today clearly—and definitively—stated that there are no major advantages or disadvantages to any setup. In short—this 'meta' is a player made concept, and to the individuals who have access to all the information and data, it is a silly construct.

Now as for the specifics. Yes, whoever parses the most DPS is the optimal DPS. There is a law of averages; if a few parses had a raid feeding the BLM to do the most possible damage, it would be balanced out by a myriad of logs from countless comps. There is more than enough data on FF Logs to squash the outliers. So if you cannot agree that the highest parsing DPS is the best / optimal DPS, then it just shows you do not understand how DPS works.

And to bring it all back to the tidbit I listed: the developers definitively said there are no major advantages or disadvantages to any comp. Meta or not, buffs or debuffs or not, the devs do not think that there are any meaningful benefits, and thus you can take the numbers as they are. That should be /thread. Unless you want to say the creators of the game do not know what they're talking about, which is rather silly.

Although it is nice to have a discussion, instead of another poster who just wants to scream WRONG at everything.