Some views on DPS balance that everyone cares about

[Myon88]

Nah, summoner is just fine. Trying to equate resurrection and verraise by saying 'well, they're both raises', is asinine. You may as well use that logic to say their difference in dps is actually fine, because 'well, they both have damage'. I hope that sounds as silly to you as it does to me. Just as dps lies on a continuum, so does the power of each respective raise. No one arguing in good faith is blind to the difference between a rez dependent on swiftcast, and one backed up by dualcast on demand.

There are really two kinds of people who are chronically upset about summoners:

• Mediocre black mages insecure about getting outdps'ed by a summoner. They think their 60th percentile black mage performance entitles them to beat a 90th percentile summoner (news flash: if they changed job stones, the summoner player would beat you at your own job too.)

• Red mage one tricks who can't come to terms with rdm's role as the most support oriented caster. They've never played the game at a high enough level to appreciate the sheer power of verrraise and vercure, and take it for granted.

That's why we're doing this song and dance with caster balance for the 2nd expansion in a row. The exact same trajectory too, launching as a weak, broken job, buffed in the 2nd tier, and then endless complaints for the rest of the expansion (we are here). If you want to know what lies at the end of this road, look at the ranged now. Currently, if you play any of the casters to its full potential, you can produce miracles that none of the other two can match. The ranged, in contrast, have all been Harrison Bergeron'ed into shallow, hollow shells of themselves to satisfy the people who don't try, and ensure none of them can rise above the other in any meaningful way.

Riddle me this, when summoner was a hot mess in the first tier of eden, I'm sure none of you spared a second thought for whether SE had erred in nerfing them too much. And now in a 45-potency dot world, there are people that consider it their place to wonder if they didn't do enough. I guess SE is only right on the money when it suits you eh? That's a disingenuous and self-serving mindset.

You casters don't appreciate how good we have it now, as someone better than all of you in all three let me tell you why.

We have a 1/1/1 role bonus system that lets you easily run two casters. The last two world firsts were taken by said double caster lineup. Unlike the melees, all three jobs have clearly diverse playstyles. Unlike the ranged, all three are not just viable for general play, but optimal in their respective niches. This time will be looked back on as a golden age for casters, just as Heavensward was for the ranged. We are the gods, and instead of basking in that glory, you're too busy looking over your neighbour's fence to make sure they have less than you.