Quote Originally Posted by Lyth View Post
RPR never was the highest job in terms of rDPS
This is False.


Quote Originally Posted by Flashy View Post
RPR/MNK were clearly the best melee until 6.08 or whenever all melee except RPR were buffed
Personally as a SAM player at the time, I didn't care much because I was still learning the new rotation but it was a little annoying since RPR had a raid buff and outperformed SAM even in aDPS if I recall correctly
So to set the record straight as of December 17 - 2021, here's the RDPS chart and lets recall it correctly RPR was released December 3rd



Now if you go back to FFlogs " now " you will see patch 6.0 / 6.1 and 6.2 but you won't exactly see 6.01 or 6.05 or 6.08 ( rip Kaiten ) and during the period where everyone was on the RPR meta, be it short lived, the Balance Discord blew up with overwhelming RDPS Charts. You can still view them if you wish. So it's false to say Reaper never was at the top.

There were plenty Samurai's malding over this, this is true. Cause why take a Samurai into your raid? when you can get a top performing RDPS RPR, while providing Raidbuffs? and any other Melee brings something else well? it makes no sense to have a Samurai, just have RPR + another melee with Raidbuffs. I had no issues finding parties though, that was a period where I was part of a Static.

But, my main issue isn't even about who's top ranked. It's the promise that SE promised that RPR was supposedly going to be a bit more on the Selfish side if people still recalled this. That shoulda been their identity then by SE's definition. And by current standards if you look now at the graphs... you be the judge if SE actually came through with that.

For the balance of the game?
RPR probably doesn't need a buff. And probably no other Job needs a buff either it's all perfect. For player satisfaction? I guess that's a different issue. Look at me? I am top Job and I am not happy with how shallow they made my Job from my opinion. It's top... its shallow though...

And if SE thinks this is balanced? that's kinda it. If you think this isn't fair? just voice it. However it was not true that RPR never was at the top. The patch however was very short lived when RPR stayed at the top.