Quote Originally Posted by T0rin View Post
I had a big long post typed up, further recanting the obviously bad information you are spewing, but I'll boil it down to this:

Your experience in XI doesn't matter. If you can't see the benefit of weapon damage, you simply don't understand how damage in this game works. In the end, ACN pidgeon-holes you into a single set of gear, SMN has more diversity. You shouldn't need to heal yourself, ever, and a minor amount of damage reduction in a non-end game instance is unimportant to overall balance. Swapping IR and B4B gives a very minor boost to overall DPS, and even when mixed in with Aero, is easily outweighted by the 20 INT, 10 potency on pet attacks and Fester.

Stop thinking that since you know XI, you know XIV. It is plainly obvious that you don't.

This statement alone is enough for anyone who understands _this_ game to basically ignore everything you have to say on what is "good".

i90 weapons are the single most potent, and cost effective way to increase damage over the i80 alternatives. If you can't recognize that, you really don't understand how damage works in this game.

The game that came before this and played a significant part on helping to influence and shape XIV had no part at all huh? What gives you the crystal clear authority to be able to look to someone else and say that just because they might have played for less time than you, that they themselves don't know anything? As far as it seems now, I'm being lectured by someone on an argument that comes off as heavily elitist-like. You've thrown your own results and information at me and I've given mine, yet throughout the whole thing I haven't seen any slight recognizing of what was said. You shrug off what I give as my side of the argument and ridicule and say I don't understand any concepts like weapon damage and the like simply because I may base experiences off of a previous MMO. Which when made by the same company with differences only in age and staffing, means that at this point, you've only played XIV.


If you haven't, feel free to speak up and say what experiences you have give such a clerical advantage to your words, you've thrown walls of DPS stats at me, but who saw you do them? Do you have other people that could be contacted on this site and asked to give witness testimony? Or are you just going to keep holding whatever cache of knowledge you think you have over me and then use that as the deciding factor in why your words mean more than mine.

3 damage does not make a difference, you can file it under "more DPS" as much as you want, but with gear and Jobs and Classes made as they are, the system is already set up to make whatever you say fall to your side just because of how SE incorrectly made it work, admitted by them in one of the recent Live-Letters. If you're going to count a faulty mechanic system as a pro to your side, you're already arguing from slippery slope, and this is no a longer fun nor creative conversation. It's just a waste of time at this point.