Quote Originally Posted by Kabooa View Post
Lets say Summoner brings 500 damage bonus from Devotion. If we equalize the RDPS of Summoner to Black mage (we'll use an arbitrary 15,000), then Summoner must have 14,500 Personal DPS.

We'll say Devilment and Standard Finish is 10% just to round it off. That's 1500 for your Black Mage.

That's 1450 for your Summoner.

But wait, you're saying that RDPS benefits should be -greater- than what a PDPS based job can bring. So lets just amp Devotion a bit. Lets say in a team of like minded and able individuals, RDPS from Devotion is worth 1000.

That means Black Mage is 15,000 and Summoner is 15,500.

Why bring the Black Mage?

Consider further we apply this to Machinist.

Machinist is just a PDPS class so it should just be equal to Black mage. 15,000.

Why bring the Black Mage?

Bard is job like summoner, so 14,500 + 1000.

Why bring the Black Mage and Machinist?

Ninja. 14,5000 + 1000

Why bring the Black Mage, Machinist, or Samurai?
All the debates keep going from one extreme to another.

Summoner rdps shouldnt meet or exceed blm rdps because it brings more than the dps increasing utility.

Nin amd dragoon, conversly dont bring anything but dps increase utility, if that utility dont increase total dps, they may as well not exist. But you dont want them to outright trump pdps. A NIN's TA benefits more than just one person, so their pdps needs to be lower, and thats fine, but THEIR issue is that their own pdps nullifies TA, and if TA just breaks even, their is no point to bring them either.

You shouldnt have to work and synergize with a class just to make them break even with their more powerful counterparts