Quote Originally Posted by Gruntler View Post
1) Prog is what matters for game balance, not speedruns. Literally no game balances or should balance around parse runs. This is actually not relevant to the majority of players, even the majority of Savage raiders.

2) RDM (and SMN) still bring a cushion of safety on farms and weekly clears, which is what a lot of players spend a lot of their time doing in this game.

This may not be as valuable to players that only do content with their static, but once you take a single step outside that echochamber, RDM and SMN value increases significantly, even in content that you have on farm.
Can't believe people are arguing about whether DPS job with benefits to prog, because they can save wipes, is or is not much of a benefit. Ofc it's a big benefit, no brainer!

Literally why bring a BLM if you had a choice?

SMN & RDM both do like 95% of the dps, with a big safety net for the group. I mean do people ever join a group and go "wow, we have a BLM on our team!"..

It's not so much a BLM issue either, since other DPS jobs don't bring such powerful utility like SMN/RDM, but at least they got nice raid buffs.