Quote Originally Posted by HyoMinPark View Post
While jobs may have still had imbalances in the past, they are nothing like the current imbalances between the top 3 damage dealers (MNK, BLM, DRG), and the ones at the bottom (SMN, RDM, DNC, BRD, MCH). There are anywhere from 1,000 rDPS to 2,000 rDPS differences between the jobs with very little reason for such a large gap to exist. The balance could definitely be much better, and the only way to draw attention to it—short of simply boycotting the jobs as players did with MNK and NIN—is to make threads about it, and then hope the developers read them and take them seriously. This isn’t even to mention how SAM still deals less in terms of rDPS compared to a melee that has utility (MNK).

As for the physical ranged thread, I don’t recall anywhere in the opening post of that thread that states that the role would be “EXCLUDED from ALL CONTENT FOREVER”—just that they will start seeing exclusions in more than just Savage via the trickle down effect metas tend to have. Some of the physical ranged have already been excluded from Savage since the tier dropped—DNC being one of them. They were locked out of early Titan progression and clear runs due to their lower damage leaving less room for error in an already minimum item level setting.

With regards to “waiting and seeing”, both MCH and DRK waited the entirety of Stormblood to see changes. RDM waited until Patch 4.4 to see buffs to its potencies. WHM dealt with the defunct 4.0 Lily system the entire expansion, despite the 100+ page threads on here warning the developers that it was a poor mechanic since the Stormblood media tour. Given these precedents, simply “waiting and seeing” doesn’t always seem to work.
Screw the Savage meta. The people who help "trickle down" that garbage are not worth actually listening to for anything.

People who exclude specific jobs from party comps are either actually pushing the very limits of this game, or they are pretending they can outside of Savage for some reason and are trying to imitate those who are while also having a very crappy attitude to be around. No developer should listen exclusively to either one of those groups. 5.08 was never, ever promised to be the grand fixes that Samurai or Ninja are in need of, nor was it intended to be the nerfs some of the angrier folks in this community were expecting the current dps kings to get slapped with.

If Samurai want to be king DPS so badly, they should also have to play the same ridiculous keyboard bemani than Nin or Smn do to go along with the huge bursts they get to squirt out just for following a rotation correctly.