The obsession with DPS is actually pointless without knowing enrage timers. Pretty much nobody here plays at a level where they are going for speed-clear world records. As soon as you hit the enrage, the best class is the one that can recover from mistakes, and cover for others mistakes, the best. And needs the least healing/space. And the least attention from others through buffs, and so on.

I find it to be hilariously funny how the NA crowd is always so concerned about DPS in a vacuum. This has never mattered in any MMORPG in the history of MMORPGs, as long as you got the enrage timers beat. Being alive and not needing to be fed by others is always better than pushing out a little more DPS than the others.

Not to mention, I can guarantee you, if NIN was top DPS, nobody relevant could play them reliably at that level. Parse a few fights to see what I mean, but I simply dont believe anybody here pushes out the numbers we see in those parses, not even close.