Concerns Regarding DPS Balance: Physical Ranged, Red Mage, and Summoner

[Lyth]

There's no point trying to stand up for the 'common good' if the people whom you're standing up for are looking for ways to drag you down at every opportunity. It's like offering a hand up to a megalocrab in a bucket only to get pinched for your trouble. I'm sure that there was a lesson about this somewhere in the Dark Knight questline.

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If you're using DPS as a measure of player skill, you can only make that comparison within the same job. That's not just because different jobs have different weightings on their actions, but also because of Crit/DH variance. As an example, PCT can have under 200 actions over the course of a shorter fight, and many of those singular button presses could easily amount to anywhere between a 100k and 150k damage difference depending on whether they were Crit/DH or not. That's a massive amount of damage variance on a job with a tiny action count. A job's IQR might as well be evaluating coin flips at that point.

Regarding equivalent percentiles, there's no way to determine how your percentile on BLM correlates to your percentile on PCT, because that depends on your time spent playing each job. You might not even know how to play one of the jobs in question.

I do think that BLM needs relative buffs, because it relies on sustained damage rather than burst, and requires higher tuning to stay relevant in shorter, burst heavy fights. I think job difficulty comes out in the wash, because as you become skilled at meeting those difficulty checks through practicing your chosen job, your damage naturally goes up.