Thread: 2.3 Info! New Classes Confirmed, New Summoner Pets!

People who say BLM does not need a little dmg bump either don't raid, have never parsed their dps against other players, or have never played BLM. The most specialized dps class in the game, blm, parses behind many of the other classes. If you do turn 8, essentially a giant training dummy for dps, everyone can execute a near perfect dps rotation with little interruption. During that fight, it is easy to see how BLM, with a perfect rotation, stands up against a MNK or DRG with a perfect rotation. The difference in DPS is gigantic.

If all things are equal, MNK, BRD, and SMN do more dps. BRD does less DPS, but they bring so much more utility than any other dps class can. MNK, DRG, BRD and SMN bring raid utilities such as stuns, silences, songs and switcast raise. BLM brings absolutely no meaningful utility.

The only thing BLM is the best at is AoE burst. No raid fights, other than turn 4, require extensive AoE. So, with the exception of one fight, BLM is outshined by other classes without much effort.

If BLM is supposed to be a strong arm dps glass cannon with no meaningful utility, then, given all things are equal, blm should parse competitively with MNK and DRG.

Looking forward to the BLM love.