Quote Originally Posted by Eidolon View Post
You say it's well documented? Do you have links by chance?
it's pretty simple to think about. MNK stacks get eaten during phase changes or mechanics and they have to earn them back (our team's mnk always sighs when he loses his stacks due to Charge in t10) which means lower DPS during that time. DRG and NIN don't have this issue in addition to having fewer restrictions on positionals.
So it becomes less "this combination creates the highest DPS!" and more "This combination gets gimped less by mechanics and thus has better DPS"