Quote Originally Posted by Sylve View Post

But what a lot of people don't really pay attention to is the fact that Monks and BLMs need those lower dps jobs around in order to achieve the numbers they do. Some would call it padding, But its literally what they're designed to do. Take advantage of damage buffs given by party members.
Rdps is pdps + contribution. Which means that "padding" is actually subtracted from thos blm and mnks and given to the ones who gave the (de)buff in the first place to get their rdps total.