Quote Originally Posted by Gruntler View Post
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See my above posts.

If you go off of raw potencies, 12% extra damage is not anywhere near enough to make up for 140 potency difference on MNK's primary finisher vs NIN's primary finisher. Nor NIN's potencies across the board. I don't agree with you about defensive utility, Dragon Kick actually lowers magic damage slightly so that's one. But Mantra is more of a skill to let your raid relax, while NIN Goad... TP is TP. There's nothing you can really do to fix TP issues at an optimal level (which still exist, and will very much be prevalent with the high uptime-long encounter scenario final coil looks to have from turns 10+11). There's really nothing you can do to keep your TP up short of stopping all DPS and letting it tick back, bards fulfill this duty already to an extent but goad is a much more concentrated TP regen and jobs such as a multidotting bard will need TP more than others in specific fights.