Quote Originally Posted by Squa View Post
This is strange, I have been sitting at a test dummy for the past while, and testing my BLM and SMN. On paper SMN looks really good, better than BLM. Here is some of my test results (SMN and BLM have identical gear except for weapon which is ballpark)

My BLM Fire normal hits for 668 average. So, in reality it seems as the BLM does more damage per GCD than SMN. To bad parsers are so inaccurate for this game to get real answers.
Looking at numbers on a dummy is nice and all but it doesn't take into account the mechanics of the fights. If you care about parse numbers I outdamage my group's BLM by more than 100 dps on turn 5.

You also forgot shadowflare.