Quote Originally Posted by ShinigamiB06 View Post
that is just not true. last letter from the producers they mentioned how they were aware that melee dps was suffering because they had to dodge too many aoes and could not do their rotations properly. and if a mage is able to hit for 2700, and i believe that is from an aoe attack...say it hits 4 mobs. that would be over 10k of damage off of only one cast. that is just outrages. my dragon would take an eternity to deal that much damage.
People need to get away from that mentality that bigger numbers mean you are the better dps. A BLM hits extremely slow, so these high humbers are needed to stay competitive. As a dragoon you get to pretty much attack twice per GCD due to the number of off GCD's and you have an autoattack that deals additional damage. MNKs numbers are even smaller, yet their fast attack speed makes them parse quite a bit higher than BLMs and DRGs.