Quote Originally Posted by Neela View Post
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Still being 600 dps below on average is making you a deadweight to the group. You will have more mechanics whether you like it or not. More mechanics=more chances to fail because we are all human beings=more fails=more stress=more fails=vicious cycle of death leading to frustration over progression.

I don't advocate for changing classes for the meta, but there's a limit to being useless. I never liked monk but I felt for them in HW. Same for pld and I absolutely hate tanks.
And dragoon is currently only making up their low personal dps with both a bard and machinist and still comes up to deal the same personal damage (if you count the combined of brd and mch into drg's) of ninja or monk. Then ninja on top of that has their raid damage. Furthermore the compo drg+brd+mch is going to be weaker than nin+mnk+sam going by raw numbers.