So you're telling me..

[Kazimere]

There's someone in this thread that's trying to use top adps logs as any sort of statement on job balance and you're on this guy's ass?

ADPS only measures skill within a job when compared within a job. It has nothing to do with balance. It should never be brought up in a balance discussion.

What matters is ability-to-clear. Not an ability to top meters (that's player driven not game-driven), not the 99th percentile, but the output of players across a spectrum of skill levels so they can clear.

'But but but week one savage clears'

They don't balance around week one savage clears either. They balance around a longer timeline for savage clears.

SE literally does not give a shit about orange parsing or parsing. They care about clears.

That is not true. They all matter. rDPS isn’t the end all. It’s just what people think matters most because it’s what ff logs uses to rank. Now, what SE uses to balance I have no idea.

[Scuoll]

That is not true. They all matter. rDPS isn’t the end all. It’s just what people think matters most because it’s what ff logs uses to rank. Now, what SE uses to balance I have no idea.

I think people look at rdps because that is the fairest assesment of how much damage you contributed to killing the boss, it's weird because it gives credit to the buffer instead of maybe a samurai playing perfectly and boosting your rdps, so performance wise your rdps is at least kinda out of your control, but when it comes to balance it shows how good your buffs can be, which coming back to the discussion, shows reaper's buff to be pretty good, i dont see why you should disregard that, this is literally just a fact, it is barely worse than battle litany while rpr's adps is way higher than drg.