The design formula and job difficulty segregation are on brand

[Connor]

As I said in another thread, this genuinely seems like nonsense to me. Like I’m huffing copium that it was a mistranslation or misunderstand because it makes no sense whatsoever in the face of actual evidence?

Summoner is almost unanimously judged as the easiest job in the game yet it’s higher than all three phys ranged?! Like from my perspective Machinist should be the top dps then, because it just makes no sense to me at all lol (what do you mean I don’t just press the glowing buttons?!). Plus isn’t Viper generally considered straightforward and simplistic? Yet it’s the top performer? This ain’t adding up, people!

[Atma]

As I said in another thread, this genuinely seems like nonsense to me. Like I’m huffing copium that it was a mistranslation or misunderstand because it makes no sense whatsoever in the face of actual evidence?

Summoner is almost unanimously judged as the easiest job in the game yet it’s higher than all three phys ranged?! Like from my perspective Machinist should be the top dps then, because it just makes no sense to me at all lol (what do you mean I don’t just press the glowing buttons?!). Plus isn’t Viper generally considered straightforward and simplistic? Yet it’s the top performer? This ain’t adding up, people!

Phys ranged is still paying for the sins of Bard in 2.0, where they were incredibly overpowered and you would commonly go into alliance raid roulette and end up with 10 of the 15 DPS on Bard. It's an incredibly outdated design philosophy they they refuse to back off on.