Quote Originally Posted by Tulzscha View Post
When the game makes it so easy to change jobs yeah I'd expect more people to take that advantage. But all those parses people love to tout on about are all clears, every job is capable of clearing. If someone hates Bard and just wants to play MCH they can.



That's probably their intention, to encourage more melee. If people could perform just as well without having to worry about developing strategies around allowing half the dps to be able to hit the boss, why bother playing melee or BLM?



Allow me to clarify: Which dps should be top and bottom three in rdps: how much the job contributes to the raid itself including its own buffs and excluding buffs from others?
Top personal DPS should be SAM, BLM, MNK, and then MCH should be just underneath, as the other melee DPS provide more utility.

The bottom is a little trickier. DNC should be the lowest DPS for obvious reasons. Next I think would come BRD and RDM. Red mage is the Dancer of casters, and I hope they continue to lean into this direction in 7.0 and on. They have the most utility out of the 3. If summoner is going to continue to have the mobility it has, then maybe get rid of rez in 6.1. They said they thought about removing it.

I am curious to see what is going on in the JP forums. I feel like they probably have more sway than NA or EU folks.