Quote Originally Posted by whiskeybravo View Post
Nobody cares because it discredits their entire argument. Fair enough I suppose.

That's OK. It's only been what 6 weeks or so since savage released? How much of the community has even cleared or attempting savage? Half? A third? A quarter?

I'm no more stubborn than anyone else. If you don't agree then you don't agree, doesn't change a thing.
Does it ever get tiresome building all these strawmen?

You don't balance around lower tier parses because people aren't playing the jobs to their potential. Therefore, the data will be misleading at best or flat out useless. Look at say, 50%, and you'll see Black Mages dropping Eno-chan; Dragoons overcapping their Eyes; Monks losing Greased Lightning, and etc. All of this makes the data pointless. Hence why you look at the higher end percentiles where these mistakes won't occur. This gives a far more accurate indication of what the actual strengths and weaknesses of each job is.

As for clear rates. Enough people have cleared the statistics average out. It won't make a difference if we evaluate now or two months from now. Red Mages aren't suddenly go up by a 1,000 DPS. In fact, the gap is likely to widen—and the stigma increase when Ultimate comes out.