BLM DPS

[Turtledeluxe]

We're talking high-level content, I expect the skill level to be commensurate (for any class). You play with 7 other people who want to clear, it's just respect.

Making DPS a free for all is not respect. It's bowing down to players who think they know what they want instead of delivering your own vision for the game which brought it to massive success to begin with. The main problem with FFXIV and many other games is over catering to this tiny % of players who are very vocal and very competitive. Those are the facts. What other people are saying about BLM dps may be technically incorrect because of how they framed, but it's simply too low to justify using the class on average. The big picture quite simply that that if a class is a selfish DPS, whether we're talking about BLM or whoever, there HAS TO BE some kind of incentive to play that class. It's in the name: selfish DPS. Without top DPS, it's just selfish. It's not complicated. Yes you can be hardcore and optimize it to achieve your 1-2% extra dps, but that's unrealistic given the average player will never be hardcore. Again, that's why the distinctions exist.

because in the game blm competes for the caster spot. And unlike the other casters, it can also compete for the second spot of melee.

Being able to compete with melee is an absolutely terrible incentive to play a ranged caster. "Don't worry, you can do as much damage as melee!". It should compete against any other class that does high damage. Being a ranged glass cannon has obvious pros and cons that FFXIV refuses to adhere by. Glass cannons are top DPS, zero question, at the expense of mobility, vitality, and defense. In the current paradigm BLM is an ok cannon, perhaps top ish, with all of those downsides and zero partywide utility.

And it already is. The blm is a class that does a lot of damage, certainly more than other casters, and not by such an indifferent percentage. So even if it gets more damage, it will not change the situation blm already has.

I would love to see the data you like so much to show me how the completion rates are for ultimate raids over time for BLM versus every other class. I'd also like to see the data you're using to determine that the damage % differences are adequate.