Is there an unneeded hostility towards regular classes in this game?

[Huntington]

That just goes to show that you are not playing SMN very well. If you were, you'd be at 240 DPS on SMN, not 217.

Is that the issue here? You don't play SMN very well, and ACN is easier (more DoTs, less dealing with optimizing the time in between recasts?), so you do slightly better DPS as ACN, thus wonder why everyone makes so big a deal out of it?

Make a video then of your SMN and ACN dummy parses, I'll gladly help pick apart what you are doing wrong.

You can certainly extrapolate that I'm not playing it well, but you have no surefire answer on if I am or not. You're shooting into the wind and hoping the current carries your guess where you think it should go. Maybe it's because my item level on SMN right now is at 78, maybe it's because not everyone plays this game every single day to have the best gear possible, maybe, just maybe, it was there because that was awhile back and I've since gotten more gear and a few Allagan pieces.

I'm on PS3 also btw, bothering to capture video for this to prove something to people over the internet sounds like I'd have to be doing pretty awful in life to think a few opinions from people on it matter that much. I'm awaiting a PC Master Race comment now.

By the way, your little test in another thread went exactly as I did it when I did my own parse, yet I recall you earlier on saying using Spur and Rouse in order before Enkindle was incorrect, care to explain how you're using the same moveset as me so much better when I've done Spur > Rouse > Enkindle > Raging Strikes > Bio 2 > Miasma > Bio > Miasma 2 > SwiftCast Shadow Flare > Ruin 1 myself?