Current top 100th percentile on P1S since 6.08 buffs

[Blutiful]

aDPS is a really bad metric to base yourself, rDPS is better. I remember in Stormblood when logs were calced on aDPS and every single ranged physical absolutely wanted and needed a dragoon to do competitive damage.

From FFlogs:

"aDPS stands for "adjusted DPS", and it is measuring how much damage you did with only single target padding removed. AOE padding is still allowed. The formula for it is:

aDPS = DPS - (damage gained from a set of specific single target buffs)"

https://www.fflogs.com/help/rdps

The number used back then in Stormblood was raw, pure DPS, which is even still visible btw, not ADPS. ADPS excludes single-target padding, and should absolutely be accounted for in balance, as it shows how well jobs perform when factoring in that some jobs burst harder in 60/120 second windows than others, which absolutely should be taken into account to attain the highest possible DPS as a party composition, thus making it a highly valuable metric for job balancing. Need more proof that ADPS matters? Go look at top speed skill groups, and notice the dominant presence of Samurai, which is still lower RDPS than two other melees. Multiple of the absolute fastest kills are using Samurai.

It's just that people like you don't understand how these numbers work and try and push false narratives with them.

As for ranged physicals being undertuned, this is a circular argument that has gone on since the start of Shadowbringers, but, I think Ranged Physical receiving a rework as a role to have much-needed skill expression is a much more logical decision to make than buffing ranged physicals flatout exponentially higher. I think it's also much more plausible. If Square Enix had any interest in just throwing like 5% more dps onto ranged physicals as a role, they probably would have done it by now - and thank Heavens they haven't.