6.08 Patch Notes

[Delily]

Note that I said prior expansions. This is not the first time a job has managed to solo a normal mode raid or trial while it's current, and it probably won't be the last. That aside, care to explain where it's broken? WAR is currently performing well in content that isn't even relevant. It's monstrous for dungeons and can generally sustain through normal trials and raids, but it is suddenly far less powerful once you step into savage or EX. High self-healing doesn't help you if the boss tears your face off before you can bump your HP bar back up. Furthermore, its DPS is presently behind both DRK and GNB. Damage is king in endgame.

More players do dungeons and normal raids than savage and ex content, so calling them irrelevant is just ridiculous. Expert and the level 90 roulette are arguably more important than savage raids.

[hfang]

Expert and the level 90 roulette are arguably more important than savage raids.

disagree on that one. both are equally important, just for different demographics. I couldn't care less how unbalanced a job is in a dungeon, they're easy to do no matter what you do, while higher end content usually makes you utilize the job more (not to its full potential mind you, but you need to properly use more of its kit, so it demands better balancing than a dungeon)

of course, people who only do casual-ish content won't care about what I just said either. it's a matter of perspective

[ForteNightshade]

More players do dungeons and normal raids than savage and ex content, so calling them irrelevant is just ridiculous. Expert and the level 90 roulette are arguably more important than savage raids.

From a balance perspective, they are irrelevant because none of that content is tuned remotely close to what the jobs are capable of. Case in point, if you outright deleted Bloodwhetting, TBN, Corundum and Shelltron. What changes? Absolutely nothing. The healers still spend 90%+ of their casts on the ST/AoE nuke.

Even mildly insinuating Expert is more important than Savage is completely laughable. I'd like to remind you they've readily been removing dungeons every expansion. Can't say the same about Savage.

Can someone please explain if DNC is decent now? I know it's not exactly the best DPS but can I now play it without the fear of slowing down the group by a lottt?

Dancer's rDPS is roughly 6% putting it on near even footing with Bard. It'll still come out very slightly behind overall I believe but it's very competitive. Machinist on the other hand...