Monk should it be "Nerfed" ?

[ForteNightshade]

while i do think the general sentiment of taxing for mobility is not wrong and i'm not screaming "brd/mch/dnc need to be top dps" i dislike the reasoning you offer, not because you are wrong but because things like "we could easily end up with another alphascape" for example we may just aswell not do so, than what ? the classes are underpowered now, not in a potential next raid tier that in this shape may never come.

Then it still doesn't matter. For argument sake, let's assume Dragoon is pulling 15,500. If Machinist were at 15,250, no one is really going to care because the two jobs are close enough together that trading one for the other doesn't impact much. I'm a bit confused why you're bringing up how underpowered the range on when I already acknowledged that. And they need a serious buff. But you still need to prepare for potential differences going forward. If they balanced the Range purely on this tier alone, a fight like O12S would be horrendous for melee. Hence why their needs always be that slow gap to account for those variables.

As for bad players. Overstated or not, it has to be considered with regards to balance. If you ignore how the majority of groups will not cater towards melee uptime, it can swing things in the opposite direction where melee get stigmatized. Once again, I question why you're referencing how lopsided the Range and Melee are. I never disagreed with that nor did I insinuate otherwise. I simply said you need to have a mobility tax, just not one as absurdly high as what we have now.

Someone who says "they could improve my job but I still won't be happy if another job is still strong" doesn't have an opinion on game balance worth taking seriously.

... what a person mains has no bearing on their opinion if said opinion is, in fact, accurate? She's right. Buffing Samurai would just create more problems because Monk shouldn't be pulling ahead of Black Mage. And I don't main any of them, by the way.