Quote Originally Posted by PenutButter View Post
T4: BLM on AoE and total damage. MNK on single target and 2nd overall if he knows how to manage his TP for some AoE. Bane only affects 3 targets; if there are a lot of targets, SMN can't even beat MNK, DRG, and even BRD in AoE if those jobs are going all out, so no freaking way they gonna beat BLM. If you lose to a SMN on this turn as BLM, I'm sorry but you fail HARD.
I will have to disagree on this though. SMN do have the ability to outdps almost anyone. SMN should DoT the non-Bane targets and use Miasma 2, Shadowflare, and Rouse+Enkindle. I would even use bane twice in t4 for the spider mobs.

Here's 2 instances where I did the most damage than almost everyone in my party:
http://i.imgur.com/a64EqTC.png (123664 total damage. I barely outdps the BLM here, but he's not usually in the static.)
http://i.imgur.com/SSf5RsB.png (122580 total damage. Now, this is my static BLM and we had a different DRG in this one.)