Is dancer a waste of time?

[HyoMinPark]

DNC can hit over 10,000 in terms of rDPS. It could use maybe slight potency buffs, but at 95th percentiles for the current EX fights, it’s only ~400 rDPS behind MCH, ~300 rDPS behind BRD. We’ll see how well it fairs in Savage, but thus far it is in a better state with its direct competitors compared to SMN and RDM versus BLM.

[LunarEmerald]

DNC can hit over 10,000 in terms of rDPS. It could use maybe slight potency buffs, but at 95th percentiles for the current EX fights, it’s only ~400 rDPS behind MCH, ~300 rDPS behind BRD. We’ll see how well it fairs in Savage, but thus far it is in a better state with its direct competitors compared to SMN and RDM versus BLM.

Those are some cherry picked parses. Dancer doesn't do dps like that unless you get lucky with procs. Dancer has pretty bad sustained dps if your luck is average. I'd say 9000 is a more reaistic dps number for dancer with rDPS. It's a good 1000 or so behind everybody else.

[HyoMinPark]

Those are some cherry picked parses. Dancer doesn't do dps like that unless you get lucky with procs. Dancer has pretty bad sustained dps if your luck is average. I'd say 9000 is a more reaistic dps number for dancer with rDPS. It's a good 1000 or so behind everybody else.

Those are not cherry picked. I specifically stated 95th because it's a fair representation of higher level play. I also only brought up its rDPS against jobs it directly competes against (the physical ranged). It doesn't compete against melee or against a caster for a spot in a raid.

95th percentile on Innocence has DNC at 10,244 rDPS. 90th percentile is 10,028. 80th percentile is 9,718. Even 75th percentile is above your 9,000 spitball (9,595). At 75th percentile on Innocence, DNC is 900 behind BLM, the highest damage dealer. For MCH and BRD, the gap is ~600 to ~700. This gap lessens the higher you go (95th is ~200 to ~250 between DNC and BRD/MCH for Innocence). It widens for DNC versus BLM at the higher levels, where it actually exceeds the 1,000 you presented, but my comparison was against the physical ranged (and the difference between DNC and other DPS above it in terms of rDPS only exceeds 1,000 with regards to BLM; the second highest DPS [MNK] exceeds by ~900, and each one beneath MNK lower than that)..

The numbers are present on the website under statistics. That's where I pulled them from. Not from a handful of parses I randomly looked up. The lower you go, the larger divides become - but this applies to any job.