BLM Buffs Inc!

[Infina]

It seems weird to me that you say that the other monk forgot FoF and that he's very very bad. It's almost as if your friend told you this in order to prove a point?

Yes, his "friend" is very very bad.

[Sleigh]

But this is with someone else doing the Dragon kicks and stuff, no? It's still a pretty impressive number, but it's not the norm. I am still sceptical about it though. I'd much rather see a video. It seems weird to me that you say that the other monk forgot FoF and that he's very very bad. It's almost as if your friend told you this in order to prove a point? But anyway, it's still a picture and it only tells me that Monk is incredibly overpowered if you are able to get this kind of result. @Sleigh
Then I must also add that your logic is flawed when you say: 'Because the Monk did that much damage -> Therefore the numbers being claimed by Esca are true. 370 DPS on a SMN seems about right and very good. A BLM doesn't even come close unless the RNG is upon him or her.

Yes that's with someone doing Dragon Kick for him, but he's been parsed in a training dummy solo and he's gotten 440 with his current gear, without the sparse but effective multi-DoTs and double hit of Howling Fist we get from the two Dreadnaughts we spawn. MNK is hardly overpowered in the slightest - they're only overpowered in a training dummy fight where they get no drops in GL3, which makes them overpowered in T8, but beyond that they can fluctuate worse than BLM can if the fight's unkind to them.

I'm not basing the possibility of Escaflowne's numbers being correct because the MNKs you play with aren't doing as much as the MNKs I know. I'm basing them around my numbers as BLM if I had a better situation in T6-8, like going HAM with Flares on Slugs and forcing other people to break my tether 24/7, 330 would be nothing. BRD BRD isn't the most uncommon comp either, it happens and caster numbers go up for it. Trust me, I'm one of the biggest proponents of BLM needing buffs. They're not balanced, and I've made numerous posts about how bad they are, but that doesn't mean they're incapable of getting good numbers with enough practice and the right strat and comp.