Quote Originally Posted by Yandere-chan View Post
Using FFlogs as a basis isn't scientific at all. FFLogs has no control group. The perceived meta classes will be played more by the top cut of players and receive more stacked buffs exaggerating any difference that may exist in either direction. Or, what is more likely, there may just happen to be by chance more worse players/groups with certain roles than others. There is litterally no control. It's just random logs posted by a small % of the playerbase. This is no basis for Square to make any adjustments over. Square needs to look at very specific test instances where every player is of equal relative skill and look at each class with the same exact number of external buffs being applied to them. Anything less than that is not accurate at all, and even that has room for error.
FFlogs counts raid buffs as part of the DPS of the job giving the buffs rather than the one receiving them now. In effect all jobs in that list are under the same circumstances.