BLM DPS

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aDPS

But you have said its aDPS is already far too high compared to its counterparts. Now you are saying the aDPS cannot be lowered in favor of more utility. Yet Summoner, who has lower aDPS and utility, is extremely utilized for the new raid. Your answer is still "Well BLM's place in the game is that they kinda do melee damage". You are saying BLM can only compete with melee for DPS but not other casters for progression. Notice that Summoners are annoyed by their gameplay not their DPS. You keep painting me as DPS obssessed when I am not and I have no indicated that in any way. It's more about what BLM DPS means for it as a class in the game, not necessarily how high it is for the sake of beating out others.[/QUOTE]

but i don't understand why the blm has to worry about melee damage.

How would it break the game if BLM did more damage than a Samurai? I am genuinely curious. Since you keep bringing it up.

double chance to play)

I feel like you have a rose tinted vision of BLM based on your own time in very high percentiles where the ones who participate are very high performing (which I have never disputed). I don't play Ultimates and I haven't even started the latest Savage raids so my experience is limited to raising the class and some high end content. Yes, it's true BLM do very well at the very top, but that's because everyone does so imo what you're arguing isn't a cure all for this thread.

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...-more-utility/
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/351445/
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...est_raid_tier/
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...as_people_say/

Not saying they're suffering or that its widespread But I'm also saying that leveling as BLM and starting high end as BLM does feel rough sometimes because expectations are high (because of the percentiles) and it does feel a little frustrating because (and this is going to sound like a hot take)other casters have automatic desirability based on their utility -- they get a free pass where BLM has to prove it (not to say that really bad players can skate by with a res, bc they can't, that's not what I am saying). Although the player base in general is very nice, raiders often judge things by desirability and how it fits into a meta, and from what I understand, BLM simply is not that. This doesn't mean other casters affect my ability play the class, it doesn't mean the world is ending, it just means I am intrigued by TCs question of -- what is the point of a glass cannon build that doesn't really do top DMG and doesn't bring anything else to the party? But the conversation will go nowhere bc you and other players seem to think that BLM having "double the chance to play" (which, tbh, sounds like a cop out to TCs question) in very high end content means the class is perfect.