Quote Originally Posted by Grimoire-M View Post
I have to disagree. The problem with piercing/Slashing is it was exclusive utility. Only certain classes could exploit those buffs at all. By contrast anyone can be a Dance Partner, and the ideal candidate is dictated by the context of that player’s performance alone.
It's not just player performance though. There is almost no world where a Dancer would've considered DRG over a SAM given skill parity. What they did with Samurai did not fix this issue, as you've pointed out Dancer just moved on to the next biggest burst job - Ninja. It was a step in the right direction, albeit executed very poorly. There needs to be less emphasis on cramming everything onto 2 minute cooldowns, and the DPS shouldn't almost exclusively come from those raid buff windows.