Some views on DPS balance that everyone cares about

[Akiudo]

the type of content you are tunnel visioned into.... plays to EVERY strength of the Summoner job.

lets see, summoner dominate in savage raids, summoner dominate in 3 out of 4 normal mode raid turns, summoner dominate in ex trials, normal mode isn't listed, while its pretty fair to assume its the same there lets just say "not enough data" and call this neither a loss nor win for summoner,, it dominates in ultimate and dungeons don't even list class dps as such, if going by dungeons than bard isn't just good but great.

oh and yea, smn actually is in a pretty good spot in the alliance raid, fun fact, the alliance raid actually lists your "regular" dps instead of rdps for rankings, don't know why it does this, but it indeed does, i'd imagine its because of nin and trick attack not being designed for 24 people but no idea really, either way summoner is in a pretty good spot there aswell, like it actually looks like summoner is falling behind, but in reality its very much contender for the top spot on all fights, its just that "pure" dps look better by default as they have no buffs they offer to the group, and if say the blackmage does only 100 personal dps more than the summoner than a dancer would be advised to buff the blackmage, which in turn would widen the gap, add to that that melees will mostly buff each other if given a choice (mostly thinking dragoon and dragon sight range here) and you end up in a situation where certain classes look way better than they actually are, which mostly was the reason for the switch to rdps for rankings to begin with.

so yea, summoner only clearly dominates in all the hardest content, while at worst being in a very good spot in every other bit of content as far as we can tell, certainly the problem lies with only cherrypicking the data set one wants