Quote Originally Posted by Atmaweapon510 View Post
RPR used to be the undisputed #1 melee job.

They then proceeded to buff literally every other melee job past it because Arcane Crest utility is a lot better than DPS log junkies want to admit.

They buffed RPR when it became apparent it was falling behind the rest of the melee (scaling issues maybe?), but they seem to be fine with RPR's current DPS standing. Buffing RPR again at this point means that they also have to buff all the ranged jobs again and create powercreep issues.
I'm pretty sure the buffs to RPR's 123 combo was purely a result of the Crit changes inherently buffing every other melee class. Reaper and Ninja are the only two melee classes that don't have an auto crit ability, and so they are the two that don't get buffed with the new change. Ninja was already doing super well, so it didn't need to have any buffs, but if they didn't give that slight buff to RPR, the class would have been much more noticeably behind the rest.

As for the utility of arcane crest, I believe it is severely overblown, especially after it got nerfed in potency. There has never been a time where I found the healing from the crest was actually necessary, since it almost always occurs following raidwides, where the healers are healing already.