Quote Originally Posted by Capn_Goggles View Post
It's not so much underrating samurai as it's more accurately representing the DPS it's bringing in and of itself; of course, that's also going to affect the rDPS of the NIN, but to a much lesser extent than one would imagine.
It's actually more than you might think - Samurai leverages Trick to the tune of around +200 dps or so compared to Monk, and maybe +175ish compared to Dragoon. Most speedrun-minded folk see that as the value of bringing Samurai, though maybe ideally it'd be seen as an a+b synergy bonus where maybe NIN+SAM outdoes MNK+DRG or something. But in the context of NIN being a lock throughout much of history, it's a benefit specific to SAM.

In any case, fflogs' rdps rankings have no idea any of this is going on, and it's a not-trivial blind spot.