The Unofficial "Why is this still a thing" Thread

[Bourne_Endeavor]

You don't lose anything, the raid loses 400 DPS on you by not having a DRG paired with you. That's the definition of raid utility.

If you weren't there, the raid would also lose what you offer as utility.

That's being pedantic. Piercing personally buffs physical range, thus they do lose that chunk of damage, which causes the rdps to decline. The point remains no job is utterly dependent on one for a sizable boost to their damage except Bard and Machinist. It's simply poor design when slashing can be applied by three jobs yet piercing is Dragoon only. And it remains why the physical meta has dominated since Creator.

Maybe I don't quite understand how the 5% is applied, but if it's effectively a 5% flat damage buff, that would mean you would have to do 8,000 dps to lose 400. it seems you're more likely to lose about 200-250 (4000-5000dps).

I suspect those calculations include everything Dragoon offers, which actually pushes the loss higher; 500ish. Disembowel alone roughly accounts for 250-300 though, yes.