Quote Originally Posted by Kabooa View Post
Alright.

So what should Bard's 100% be if the 95% should be a difference of nearly 0 'in a real fight'.
should be i would say is way to relative a statement, lets simply take what we got, titan 95%

right now at 95% comparing bard to blackmage we got

bard 13.259
blm 14.764
difference 1505 dps in favor of redmage

at 99% we got
bard 13.462
blackmage 15.252
1790 dps in favor of blackmage

so blackmage gained 285 dps at the top range on bard, if both had started out at the same dps breakpoint at 95% slightly better scaling than we have now would mean blackmage would probably only have gotten like 250 dps on bard.

taking into account that this allready is an "average movement fight" meaning a high movement fight would actually see the bard stronger/at the least closing the gap whereas a low movement fight like voidwalker would see a bigger gap i would say this 250 dps difference at the top (for the "average movement" fight) does the trick, i would throw in another 100 dps for the fact this would actually see bard pull ahead at lower percentiles, on the other hand i would argue having raidbuffs actually needs to result in somewhat higher dps at the absolute top otherwise offering raidbuffs is allways overtaxed but this is a different discussion so with that being said

250-350 dps at the top for an average movement fight depending on if you believe raidbuffs should actually offer at least some value aside from making numbers on the parser look prettier.


with this we would end up with bard at the 99% percentile at 16450-16550 depending on your stance on raidbuffs leaving it around 100 dps lower at 95% compared to a blackmage and probably like 200 higher at the 50% range.

mind you in this case it would be higher than half the melees right now, but we are only discussing design goals here of course, in the same vein as i believe bard should be "equal" in the 90-95% range i do believe the same goes for sam/nin/redmage (rezz tax is another discussion entirely) etc.) so in this theoretical scenario these classes would be closer aswell, nin is 430 below blackmage at 95% and 500 at 99%, in this perfect world obviously their dps would be "equal" at the top aswell