What even is the purpose of all those non melee/blm jobs?

[Azuri]

Could you be any more rude?

Firstly, the current savage raid tier is not the entire game, there is a lot of content where what I said holds true. The jobs are balanced around the game as a whole, not just the current S-tier. Short of jobs altering within specific content to account for the nuances of that individual battle, we have to treat and discuss them in relation to the entire game, not just one individual raid.


As for the discrepancy between the "haves" and "have nots", well, yeah...

What do the "have nots" all have in common?

They are easier to play. I am far less likely to bork my DPS rotation on DNC than I am BLM, due to just making a mistake, or having to take evasive action. I'm also less likely to eat dirt if I make a mistake with mechanics or don't know the content well on DNC. On top of that, even if I do take a slap to the face and screw my rotation, on DNC its going to have less of an affect than on BLM where my damage can, potentially, tank.

This is not "haves" and "have nots", they are trade offs. BLM has higher peak damage output compared to DNC, but that extra power comes at the expense of risk. The benefit of a DNC in the group over a BLM is that you have a player whose damage is lower - while still being sufficient to clear, but is a safer overall player to have in the group.

If you have all DPS equal then there is no benefit to having a BLM in the group, you might as well have a dance troupe.

I didn't even call you any gamer words... yet. Gotta learn to handle at least a bit of pressure.

DPS balance anywhere below extreme simply doesn't matter. There is no DPS check. By the very definition, it is out of the scope of our current discussion.

But once again, you are simply showing how clueless you are. There is no risk involved. You can bork your rotation as many times you want, die multiple times and still deal more damage than a second rate job. I'm not particularly great at BLM but it takes me no effort to deal objectively more damage than any RDM on it. The point you are talking about simply isn't true.

And let's not get into discussion of difficulty or 1) I might end up actually using those gamer words we've talked about earlier and 2) we may summon FireMage in here. Suffice to say, SAM got a proper lomotomizing with removal of Kaiten. NIN presses 123 for 45 seconds every minute. RDM and SMN are nowhere near on the same level of complexity yet they are tied for DPS. We are not actually in Heavensward and the meme of "turret" BLM simply needs to die. Lastly, you know the "have nots" also include BRD?