The problem with dps and balance

[Ehayte]

No, your wrong. Met a dragoon in Quarn HM before maintanence. He outdps'd me something fierce on my Nin. ilvl 110 here, so was he, I followed my rotations to the T, so did he. I always had my dots up on boss, he never let his debuffs on boss. kept huton up AND would use refresh skill on mudra's for raiton (auto crit) and still outdps'd me. Their main prob is MAGIC DEF

Were you:

- Clipping your DoTs early?
- Keeping up Spinning Edge?
- Managing your cool downs?
- Locking onto the boss to hit all your auto attacks?
- Getting two Ninjitsus inbetween Hutons without letting it fall? (Not including Kassatsu being up)
- Hitting Trick Attack every time its up?

[Camalott]

If you can even find a DRG anymore.

Most of the one's I know have all become NIN.

Gotten to the point where if you see a DRG you get to make a wish.

[Empressia]

soo my friends, i found a couple of threads with stuff like : drg being too weak compared to nin and mnk or smn being too weak compared to blm and so on.

the thing is that these "weaker" classes cry for a buff, BUT i think thats the false way to go. we really dont need much more dmg ingame. what really should happen is a nerv to nin and monk, cause they are over the top atm.

drg compared to blm, smn and bard is fine as he is right now.

and for the smn, i think a little buff in therms of mp management would be ok for sure, but every increase of potency or whatever and the mp fix would be too good. imagine, in every fight with multiple targets he would be even more op than mnk and nin are atm.

just my thoughts on that.
what u guys think? (sry for my bad english)

Oh look peeps, we got a "buff another UP class by nerfing other classes"! Go back to WoW, OP!

[Eardstapa]

I think that Ninja, Monk and Dragoon can be balanced properly... There just needs a few minor tweaks. We're all so fascinated by that DPS number in a parse we forget that Dragoon is supposed to have burst, and if SE pushes them further into a burst role, this will be exactly what they need... As well as that magic defense boost. Ninja has burst, and sustain, but their burst is not that much greater than a Dragoon, nor their sustain as high as a Monk, meaning they are a middle group. Monk is pure sustain with a wee bit of boost if you choose to stack critical on crafted gear, and that is fine since they need a little bit to ramp up to their sustain state...

However, as I said, there just needs to be a few tweaks and it will all fall into place, hopefully.