Auto-crit buffs have pushed melee too far ahead of Casters (and MCH)

[Aikaal]

Why can’t people just be happy.

People aren't happy because the Crit/DH change favored a few jobs. Jobs that were already top. Monk and Samurai? Seriously? Other jobs were not compensate so when you're melee DPS that was about 8% ahead of SMN/RDM is now about 10% and I didn't get a buff on my SMN/RDM; yeah, I think it is a legitimate reason to be upset because they didn't think this through.

Regarding PLD/WAR and I'm really sorry to put it this way but their utility isn't needed. What's needed is DPS.

That aside, ya the physical ranged could use a buff, especially MCH being the "selfish" dps now. Theoretically they have 100% uptime so I get why they get that ranged tax dps, but its a bit too severe on MCH right now. I can't really comment on SMN, but RDM I feel like shouldn't have too high of a DPS given their other utilities to the party.

Melee DPS get 100% uptime so that's really not a good argument to use to justify the DPS gap. Mechanics are designed for Melees to never lose GCD and when they'd lose GCDs; boss goes invuln. RDM actually has an harder time than Melees to keep 100% uptime.

Their is actually a more problematic thing than "Balance of classes".
Melee :

RPR against Samourai (who is the second least good DPS according to certain site in average) : Need around 19.5 Potency per 2.5 sec to be able to catch up to the samourai AT LEAST (Around 470 Potency per minute) . If compared with the monk, the value increase to 62 Potency per 2.5 sec ! (around 1500 Potency per minute, so... It's basically one Communio Crit/DH more per minute in order to catch up to the monk)


Caster :

The balance on those one is the least shocking to me, because BLM is in the spot he should be, compared to the other caster. So I won't say anything on those

Ranged :

As above, MCH will need at least 55 Potency per 2.5 sec in order to be effective in a raid group (Those 55 will make it equal to a bard rDPS ACTUALLY ! But he will certainly need a more consistent buff due to the fact that stuff will upgrade in the near future and the rDPS Gap will widen because of that.). Again, we are somewhere around 1320 Potency per minute for the MCH. It's insane !


Therefore, I'm not surprised that a composition with MCH/PLD/WAR can't do P8S when the group lack more than 2600 Potency per minute (Which is incredibly high) due to bad balancing.

Here's the issue. It always should be melee, ranged, caster and flex. Melee DPS are so strong right now that it'S just 2 melees, caster and ranged. they dropped a 5th melee when caster and ranged dont have a 4th job in their category. They keep buffing melees because the 5th melee does bad damage, they don't adjust SMN/RDM and ranged.

The issue is the outdated mentality that melee needs about 10% extra damage because of melee downtime when they are making fights with no melee downtime.