Quote Originally Posted by Slyqc View Post
@RiceisNice

Stop looking at A5S please, A5S is easy and doesn't necessarily favors any class, look at the next 3 floors.
Just like said previously more bards cleared A5S... dropping to so low, MCH have twice more clears in the next 3 floors.
Also, don't just look at top 1 but at top 10.
Even if you look at top 10 or the other floors, the same context still applies. The only thing I can agree and that is shown with fflogs is that there are less BRDs that have cleared A7s than there are MCH, but that by itself doesn't mean a whole lot in the job's actual performance.

Quote Originally Posted by Greywolfamakir View Post

I totally agree with Riceis, BRD and MCH are pretty close, but MCH is great with 2 meles comp and Midas's encounters are pretty good for MCH. No one can say "MCH is better than BRD"...that is not rigth.
The wild factor for foe's effectiveness has always been the healers and how much damage they can contribute, doubly so with the higher accuracy requirements and RoD. When hypercharge was at 5%, it didn't really hold much of a candle to foe even if it did technically affect "more" of the party, because both the uptime and potency was lower than what foe to bring, and factoring in healer dps would completely dwarf it at that point (esp in a raid tier where dps check was king). On the other hand, the "wild factor" for hypercharge is tank dps, and this is also when they adjusted str/vitality with tanks that their overall effective damage is a bit lower than what it was before; it's not necessarily clear cut just by looking at the values of the debuffs.

Fights favoring one class or another has always been a thing, and that's exactly why direct balance changes shouldn't be made unless it's huge and not exclusive to the encounter in mind. I'd expect (or at least hope) that MCHs wouldn't cry foul over a mechanic that requires cleansing a debuff or spot healing is required, in which case paeon/second wind would be incredibly helpful. I digress though, this is mostly a meta thing with group compositions, but in the end it doesn't make or break anything significantly unless you're that concerned with world firsts.