Quote Originally Posted by Ransu View Post
I never said they didn't. They do need a buff, but they are not going to be competing with BLM or other top DPS jobs. They will hover in the range of mch/brd because they have similar mobility. You can call it a "tax" all you want, but its all about uptime balance. BLM has mobility tools, but the majority of SMN's rotation now is completely instant and BLM doesn't come close to the movement SMN has. While melee DPS are doing mechanics and are unable to be in melee range, MCH, BRD, SMN can attack constantly while on the move with basically zero downtime. So yes they get a "mobility tax" in terms of less dps.
Shadowbringers has shown that every DPS job can handle 100% uptime in difficult content. This was a big thing when people were debating if it was fair that Physical Ranged DPS should have a big gap in DPS compared to the rest at the time. Still is, actually.

Now in Endwalker some jobs got even more mobility, especially BLM. Like I said, it really doesn't hold up anymore.

Besides, SMN has always been the most mobile caster out of them all and had reasonable DPS until now. Some people are acting like this is new.

Quote Originally Posted by Raikai View Post
Calling SMN's redesign unsuccessful isn't quite realistic. There are a ton of players playing SMN, if it was so unsuccessful it wouldn't be the case.
I said this before, too. Because it got reworked and people are trying it out. Obviously tons of people are going to be playing it.

But then you see how many people cleared with it in Savage and it's the lowest out of the 3 casters. It puts in perspective in how arguably unsuccessful this rework was.