Everyone's talking about smn buffs. But what about mch

[Karshan]

Oh, look.

More arbitrary numbers.

Put it this way - If there was no difference at all between the job's numbers, you take Bard, Dancer, Summoner, and a token Melee for the limit break.

300 was just to account for variance and give a number, but my idea is closer to 0. There shouldn't be any notable difference so that, well yeah we could take a comp like the one you suggest and not affect efficiency : what's wrong with what ? Why should there be always 2 melees ?

Without a difference, there could be any comp, no one would feel left behind. You're a BRD ? welcome, a SAM ? welcome, a BLM ? welcome !
Our team wanna run MNK SAM SMN MCH : sure ! and my friend, DRG BLM RDM DNC, sure as well ! You're only doing 1% less than the "best meta comps" so there's no issue and welcome !

Also. Not to be picky. But nice strawman, you focused on the 300 and not on any of the arguments I put in there. You develop your idea further in you 2nd answer , but you misread that I adressed that already, for mobility and unfavorable mechanics at least : it is ALREADY in the chart. Sinc it's what happened IN FIGHT, not on a dummy. rDPS is what has been managed in fight, so despite less mobility, BLM still absolutely trumps a BRD (also a reminder, mobility is the best it's ever been for BLM, if you play it right the turret image is a meme by now)

What I didn't adress is indeed raise, that is not taken into account in charts and is a decision factor : and I think it should be gone if all rDPS come close.

What I think, is that you don't like the idea of not garanteeing 2 spots for melees ; this idea that 2 melee is mandatory has to die too.
People won't cast them out "yay we don't have to do melee uptime strats !" > wrong, your tanks thank you for forgetting them already, plus there is a lot of time where melee uptime strat is just smoother so it will be kept even if 4 range are in the fight.