5.08 Patch - DPS still not balanced.

[whiskeybravo]

P.S. For the love of god, please, stop mention how all jobs can clear - if you don't understand how it's absolutely irrelevant to the balance between jobs i suggest you learn first what the term "balance" means...

Hey look someone used lower percentiles to make a point, haven't you learned that's not relative to balance?

Sarcasm aside, you realize you example isn't that much different from my own, right? I already conceded that at any given percentile the upper jobs have a significant advantage. Thanks for looking at the extra turns, though. Although I'm not so sure of the integrity of your claim. For example I used the lowest jobs of an average comp build of 2 melee, 1 ranged and 1 physical - if you simply added up the bottom 4 irrespective of imitating a reasonable composition then the results would be more misleading than necessary. In e2s the bottom 4 dps are DNC, RDM, BRD and SMN. If you're running that comp you probably don't deserve to clear in the first place honestly.

What I actually said is your were implying speed killers influence the data to such an extent it would impact the accuracy of higher percentiles enough to at least partially explain the sizable gap between say, Black Mage and Red Mage.

The problem is that you can imply beyond original meaning. I simply choose to look at the statistics with a grain of salt. I mentioned the intricacies of the statistics about 15 times throughout my posts because there are an incalculable number of little things that make taking 1-2% off the spread one way or the other at least a reasonable starting spot. That doesn't mean the one or two things I mention make up my entire worldview. Either way, the conversation has been exhausted. I can't make my point any more clear and concise so if you haven't gotten them yet then you won't anytime soon, I guess. Peace.