Quote Originally Posted by Kona_Nightwind View Post
I wasn't even talking about DRG DPS. I was talking about how it would die to unavoidable mechanics that every other class could easily eat. If a class can't clear content in the same level of gear that every other class can its broken. And yes some DRG that got special treatment from very good groups could clear the content, but they were exceptions not the rule.
That's the thing, though. DRG was in the exact same state SMN is currently in. With better gear than was possible for cutting-edge progression, DRG could clear FCoB before they were buffed. Same is true now of SMN. With better gear than was used for progression, SMN can currently clear FCoB. Both jobs had to "overgear" content (probably closer to what the devs intended for ilvl) in order to clear it. DRG got buffed to not need to overgear. SMN still has to overgear. Why?