Samurai's Battle Design

[Eliadil]

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This is an interesting question, because with your way of balancing then having a party (nin, drg, dnc) buffing a monk should make overall more damage than the whole party buffing a samurai ? Why ? If SAM, even boosted, cannot compete with a boosted monk or a dragoon, then can you explain to me what is the point of actually having a sam in your party ?

Also maybe checking how sam was integrated into comps in stormblood could help you too. SAM and BLM were always the one to receive every buff, because they can give back way more numbers. Still, for every 1% of dps they got increased by their group, the group didn't get anything back. Which is why Samurai was never actually played that much through Stormblood's high level content. Because peoples wanted everybody to be able to buff the party. Remember "meta comps".

Why do peoples will keep boosting a Samurai in their party whenever there is one instead of buffing a Dragoon or a Monk ?

Let's take a Dancer as an example.

Dancer will buff Dragoon, that does 10k5 DPS. It will add 5% to its damage.
Dancer will buff Samurai, that does 11k DPS. It will add 5% to its damage.

In what situation will the dancer actually give more damage ? When it boost the Samurai. However, Dragoon also compensate for their lower pDPS because DRG can also buff other party members as well, giving them more damage.

In the ideal scenario, the total damage of a whole raid (8 peoples) should remain unchanged no matter what class you pick. However, the way the damage's dealt by each class should change based on raid composition. This way it allows every class to be picked for every type of content without making some class less usefull to clear said content.

Right now this isn't the case however. Ninja doesn't deal enough, RDM and SMN are not dealing enough too and each of these three classes do not provides enough buff to rDPS to compensate for their low damage. On the other end, Samurai is also not doing enough damage because a monk deals the same amount of damage than a samurai while having buffs to increase the rDPS of other peoples. This means that right now, a Samurai has no chance to be as usefull as a monk, a dancer, a bard... Because each of these class compensate their "lower" damage by having some really good rDPS. Things that a Samurai does not have.

Hope it helped you understand a bit of the situation.