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

[NightHour]

Uptime numbers of 70 or 50% would mean someone not attacking the boss for 30 or 50% of the time. In this situation, not even the strongest job will produce more DPS than a physical range. This is, I assume, a misunderstanding of the colored numbers in a certain website.

Uptime does not correlate to the colored numbers.



The best 99th percentile tank in cDPS in the current Savage tier, Dark Knight, only has higher numbers than the lowest DPS at the 10th percentile in the same category.

This is considering that DRK requires specific comps (as many buffers as possible) and kill times to produce such a number, as the other tanks are several hundreds of DPS below in the same situation.

Tanks never beat any DPS rDPS-wise at any percentile either.


Misunderstandings aside, I think we can all agree with the concerns. A short-term solution would be reducing the damage gap so that it's never higher than 5%.

Long-term solutions would involve rethinking the physical range role as a whole, as well as SMN and RDM's role within casters.

5% difference between Melee and Ranged is imo fair.



RDM and SMN are hard bound by their resurrection abilities, I'm hoping in 8.0 they yeet them and give them meaningful damage.


BLM is the only caster in my opinion that deserves to sit with melees on damage.




I think the whole caster role needs rethinking.

Pictomancer is overtuned.

BLM is the greedy caster and does less damage than PCT which has a raid wide heal, a raid wide shield AND a raid buff.

SMN/RDM are being shafted because they have resurrection abilities.



Caster Hierachy imo should be BLM > PCT > SMN -> RDM.