Fight Designs & Class Balancement - Why everything is wrong and favors Melee Fantasy

[ChaozK]

You still do about 10% more DPS than RDM, I think you can take this one L on that and still do 10% more DPS because Melee is easy.

I wished this hyperbole would stop as it does nothing but make other ranged dps that dont know better angry.
First off all, not every melee is as strong as MNK and not every ranged dps is as bad as MCH and even those two are "only" 8.5% apart currently.
If you compare the averages of all Melees and all ranged dps you get to an actual difference of 6.5%.

Not saying that number is ok either but this 10% nonsense needs to stop.

https://www.fflogs.com/zone/statisti...gregate=amount

[Housinginneed]

I wished this hyperbole would stop as it does nothing but make other ranged dps that dont know better angry.
First off all, not every melee is as strong as MNK and not every ranged dps is as bad as MCH and even those two are "only" 8.5% apart currently.
If you compare the averages of all Melees and all ranged dps you get to an actual difference of 6.5%.

Not saying that number is ok either but this 10% nonsense needs to stop.

https://www.fflogs.com/zone/statisti...gregate=amount

Pretty sure the this entire topic is arising from the p8s dps check, so maybe you should look at that fflog instead.
Those are also the people closest to current BiS so it would make a better estimate of how things will turn out for the casual raiders down the line.

https://www.fflogs.com/zone/statisti...amount&boss=86

Then look at the logs of people who actually finished p8s

https://www.fflogs.com/zone/statisti...amount&boss=87

The gap gets even wider and those are probably among the best players at each of their jobs.