I DON'T like Stormblood RDM

[Gaethan_Tessula]

To illustrate just how ridiculous that would be in practice, any job that increases the raid's total DPS by 10% would, at the suggested numbers to follow, have to have a PDPS of around 3,000.

I played an MMO once, as a support character, and just applying 4 stacks of the basic "always on unless something uses the opposed debuff or dispels" offensive buffs had me increasing raid DPS by ~30%. I had an entire other hotbar of other, shorter term, buffs. So, wow, this really puts THAT in perspective.

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Overall a good concept, though it depends on lot on tweaking things like attribute bonus and the exact nature of the cannon buff bonus. An issue that I think is pertinent, but you may not. In completely equalizing out of the box DPS, DPS ceases to be a balancing mechanism for any aspect of a job (or role skills) not covered by damage. This includes things like non-damage support skills, and if the DPS maximum is assessed in a whiteroom it may also not account for difficulty in keeping uptime for specific fights or aspects of a job that prevent that from happening.

As FF14 is currently balanced, non-damage related aspects on DPS tend to be trivial (even if the development team seems to think otherwise, see the impetus for this thread), but this hasn't always been the case in past expansions. I think removing all such skills, or refusing to make new ones, would be to FF14's detriment, but such abilities could further diminish the allure of the DPS advantage Cannon's bring under this model (though ~3% more DPS can be make or break ). Unless, somewhat counter to concept, Cannon's are also granted such abilities. Ex. BLM is returned Apocatastasis or something.