Current absolute highest DPS in the game?

[CGMidlander]

SMN is incredibly strong in most of the current endgame fights - especially if they can get good Banes in.

For single target DPS, I'm pretty sure it's DRG atm though.

[MrCookTM]

As far as youtube videos of parses goes, drg is top atm with ~1200, mnk and nin are about the same with ~1150, blm is in the ~1100 department together with smn. Though note that these are dummy parses with the jobs parsing solo, every job will parse higher with a nin in the party (trick attack), nin will put out considerably higher numbers with a war doing slashing debuff for them and blm/smn will parse higher with foes. Brd and mch are also definitely viable dps classes and will shine in high movement fights.

In real content I think smn is the overall 'best' dps class right now, since they can maintain very high single target dps while moving/doing mechanics, they have good burst in HW and on top of that are practically kings of aoe now.

[Sen_Terrechant]

Against a dummy, seems like DRG, NIN and MNK are all very close to each other with BLM/SMN pretty close behind. My guess would be BRD and MCH have closed the gap some as well (though not sure we have parses of it yet).

On fights with high uptime and low melee mechanics (A4) the melee DPS with higher skill will likely win (from my parses anyway).

If a fight allows BLM to turret and there are melee mechanics, they probably win. If there are melee mechanics AND ranged ones, SMN will win followed by MCH and BRD most likely as they can continue DPSing safely.

Most of this is speculation but really it ends up coming down to individual fights.

On a dummy fight, SMN is last place due to subpar ST sustained DPS, but BLM can get really close to melee numbers.

[NovaLevossida]

Over 1400 DPS for SMN when everything aligns right:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...pressor_video/

[Sen_Terrechant]

Over 1400 DPS for SMN when everything aligns right:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...pressor_video/

Thats not a DUMMY fight. Thats a fight with two targets with large amounts of HP, and adds to bane/painflare off of. So yes SMN will do well in that fight, but thats not a single target dummy fight like i was talking about.

[Craiger]

Well, like others have said, it depends on the fight.

Although, since you asked for the highest DPS, the answer is simple, DRG...

In different fights, the DPS will vary between the jobs, but on a single target, the DPS can never be higher than a DRG in a perfect scenario.

Alex(normal) is pretty forgiving for melee DPS, so they should be on top, but we don't know how the mechanics will work exactly in Alex(Savage), where it really matters.

It should be mentioned though, that DRG's new rotation that gives them that high DPS, doesn't work in many cases, and you have to hold on to skills to not lose even more DPS. MNK on the other side, doesn't use much of their new abilities unless there are some mechanics to dodge etc, and NIN just doesn't get as affected by mechanics as MNK and DRG. So unless you know you have 100% up-time on a boss (even Alex F4 can screw a DRG with getting sucked away), DRG lose some of that DPS advantage, MNK will gain some relative DPS, and NIN just adapts to some fights better and keeps much of their DPS. Overall, all melee are pretty close in real fights and striking dummies never tells the whole story.

In very specific fights where melee gets screwed while ranged can stand still (and I mean really still) for a long periods of time, BLM is the winner, but usually in raids(not accounting for AoE), melee DPS jobs are on top, so if you're interesting in highest DPS, look at melee... At least if they keep the trend they've had now with FCoB and Alex(assuming savage doesn't change it completely).

[Tila]

Highest dps is the class that provides whatever buff/debuff your group is missing at the time.

[Sunako]

Well if you watch this video. Bard is doing similar dps than monk and boost casters dps greatly with foe + battlevoice so I would say Bard increase more raid dps than everybody else. Drg is good too also because disembowel is pretty god like buff for bards and mch. Ninja is good too if you run without warrior and give slash buff to pld and drk. It is still pretty hard compare dps since current content is kinda joke. We should wait alex hard/savage until compare anything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwfcTXtjXKA

[Dicejss]

Threads like these are always pointless it's usually cus the OP just wants to roll the top dps class at the time.

[Ronzeru]

And someone wanting to do that is.....bad?