Musings on DNC and meta comps in ShB

[Gemina]

I find the dance partner concept really interesting for a lot of the reasons that have already been brought up. It is a bit of a conundrum as to which player the DNC picks. I am not sure why NIN or BLM would even be candidates considering NINs will spend a good portion of time using mudras and BLM has no weaponskills to feed back over to the DNC, but I am going off of very limited information, and I ignore leaks.

I don't mess around with parsers, but outside a static group, exactly what guarantees lie in place for a DNC who does use them? If parsers give information over time so you can select a better dance partner, this is going to be ascertained through combat as well, just not to a numbers extent. However those of you who have been playing for a while, I know you can tell who is struggling and who is performing well without parsers. That first selection though in a PUG, no matter who it is, will be a shot in the dark.

Regardless of how well the job plays and future adjustments, what I know for certain is SE is not going to add/allow parsers so DNCs can determine the right partner. Whatever strategies are baking up in the ovens right now and in the future are going to have to be made without that ingredient.

[Crushnight]

I find the dance partner concept really interesting for a lot of the reasons that have already been brought up. It is a bit of a conundrum as to which player the DNC picks. I am not sure why NIN or BLM would even be candidates considering NINs will spend a good portion of time using mudras and BLM has no weaponskills to feed back over to the DNC, but I am going off of very limited information, and I ignore leaks.

I don't mess around with parsers, but outside a static group, exactly what guarantees lie in place for a DNC who does use them? If parsers give information over time so you can select a better dance partner, this is going to be ascertained through combat as well, just not to a numbers extent. However those of you who have been playing for a while, I know you can tell who is struggling and who is performing well without parsers. That first selection though in a PUG, no matter who it is, will be a shot in the dark.

Regardless of how well the job plays and future adjustments, what I know for certain is SE is not going to add/allow parsers so DNCs can determine the right partner. Whatever strategies are baking up in the ovens right now and in the future are going to have to be made without that ingredient.

This is why i've been sorting things out into opener, sustained and burst partners because there may be more optimal partners during certain points of the fight.

This is based on SB and trailer

Openers - Brd/mch/nin would be good picks due to having a decent amount of weaponskills front loaded at the beginning and require little setup if at all

Sustained - mnk/sam/nin just due to their high dps or speed

Burst - this is the tricky one another jobs burst with the buff would have to be worthwhile for 2 dances of downtime from dnc as you would want to go back to the best sustained dps when you can this leaves few jobs that seem worthwhile to do sam/blm/brd why is blm here well it seems like its burst could be very potent but only time will tell if its potent enough for loss of fan stacks as well.

Nin may seem like a bad dance partner with its ninjutsus but its speed at being able to do weaponskills is why its considered and its why i think dnc/mnk is the best pairing for sustained dps due to GL4, sam makes for a better partner than nin due to nin's ninjutsus though and speed is the reason drg is not considered for any spot atm