Thread: Making Jobs Rotationally Easier in 4.0

I think the a9s faust fight is a good example where you can see what Brian mentioned about having extra dps instead of another tank/healer since the fight is rather short, so the differences will be more pronounced. You can check some of the fastest clears on fflogs and see their dps compared to the traditional 2/2/4 compositions comprising (mostly) the same people.

These two are some of such logs that I recently reviewed (to improve my own group's performance in the same fight):

DRK/WAR, AST/SCH, DRG/NIN/BRD/SMN, 0:56 kill time, 21,495.6 party dps, 18 Nov.
https://www.fflogs.com/reports/hACX8...pe=damage-done

DRK/WAR, AST, DRG/NIN/BRD/MCH/SMN, 0:46 kill time, 26,195.6 party dps, 10 Nov.
https://www.fflogs.com/reports/nGAMa...pe=damage-done

That's a 4.7k raid dps difference JUST by swapping a SCH for a MCH, while the other 7 members are the same, also note that the 2/2/4 log was posted slightly more than a week later than the 2/1/5 log, so their gears should be relatively similar. I know it's not exactly the best example for our discussion since we're talking about 1/2/5 vs 2/2/4 compositions, but this at least shows that adding 1 extra dps matters a lot when you optimize your group composition. Sadly I can't seem to find a solo tank log that has 2 healers, all of them seem to have 1 tank and 1 healer.