Quote Originally Posted by tearagion View Post
If a selfish dps does the same or less rDPS as every class with raidbuffs then you never get any more damage from taking these damage focussed jobs. The reason being raid buffs are multiplicative, so adding another job with a generally higher rDPS and a raidbuff will result in a higher total raid damage than including one of those lower rDPS selfish classes, made more potent a difference as you align burst windows with each other/the fight more efficiently and accurately.

Did they design themselves into a bit of a hole? Yeah probably, but ultimately (when balancing with the very top performers in mind) selfish classes should have a bit more rDPS (especially SAM over RPR as RPR has a heal) to actually fulfil their role of being there to deal damage. As long as there are only two, and their rDPS isn't significantly ahead of any other job, then every DPS job has a place to perform.
Samurai and BLM topping rDPS was busted. It meant their aDPS was so far above the others that the buffed damage (which is given to the buffer) still wasn't enough to cover the spread. That is straight up busted. If people knew how to read the brackets this wouldn't be an issue, but they don't. They look at what fflogs uses for rankings and says that how things are, when it is not the case.