Thread: DPS standings post 2.1

Originally Posted by Rochetm

Devs do very little listening to forum complaints. They saw there was a major flaw with their content design when looking at how warriors are built and they adjusted for that. All other changes are things they thought where important.
We have single target dps (mnk and drg), aoe dps (Blm) and support dps (smn and brd). There is a very good chance the jobs will now rank exactly where they should for what they do.

I don't get where you are getting your jobs ranked for what they were intended for because I don't know about you, but I can't read developer's minds, but I think it's well agreed that summoner and monks excelled at single target dps, where as black mages and dragoons excelled at burst where as bards were ranged with support capabilities. If anything, the thunder change (since it's global and not summoner specific) is based off of lack of AoE in the other caster classes, which is fairly idiotic since most of said complaints were cuz FATE's.

Originally Posted by ProxyTooMuch

These are not correct. Monks effectively start with a -40% damage debuff (dragon kick, twin snakes, greased lightning x 3), they will be the worst ST dps on fights less than 30 seconds long unless they use PB. Bards have really high single target burst (if they burn barrage, they are undoubtedly the highest single target burst) due to multiple off-global attacks and a lot of cooldowns.

Mnks are by far the lowest dps job in the under 30 seconds range... that includes anything that resets GL and even PB won't do much to fix it. It takes 5 attacks with PB just to get up to full dps power for mnks... even if each attack only took 2 seconds that is 10 seconds of being low dps. Long term 10 sec is nothing... short term 10 secs is life or death.

My monk has more i90 than my drg and I have +1 for mnk. I farm on drg because the burst is so much higher.

Originally Posted by Kasue

on ST <20-30s it will be DRG>MNK>BLM>SMN>BRD
on cleave SMN>BLM>BRD=DRG>MNK
on large pulls BLM>SMN>BRD=DRG>MNK

More like:
ST burst: DRG>BLM>BRD>MNK>SMN
Cleave: SMN>BRD=BLM>MNK>DRG
AOE: BLM>DRG>SMN=BRD>MNK

At least imo.

I think the classes will all be more competitive with each other and more balanced than they were before the patch, at the very least. Perfect balance will never exist, and even if it did, people would still find ways to discriminate or rank, even if based on ignorance.

Let's get one thing straight here.

For AoE once you hit 4 mobs+ it's BLM>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> everyone else


Just an Average Flare in WP doing 17,626 DMG, with convert x2 so roughly 35,252 DMG in 3 secs. Not including the Fire II>> Bliz 2 rotations and back to Flare outside of that.