Quote Originally Posted by Elnidfse View Post
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Honestly this entire argument is made moot by only addressing obviously broken classes. Black mage should be more in line with monk and machinist should definitely be above bard. But as for comparing a 73rd percentile top personal dps class with an 82nd percentile lowest personal dps class, that's about where it should be. If you knew anything about the game you'd know certain classes bring about 400-500 dps overall throughout an entire fight just with their utility. Also if you want to continue to voice your opinion on difficulty, rDPS is the easiest thing in the game to provide. It literally requires one button press and everyone gets it. There is nothing in the game that's easier than gaining that chunk of damage.

Also on a side note, machinist effective rDPS is 1.3 not 0.6. So your theoretical increases jump you from around 3450 to 3630 or something to that nature. This is on top of the fact that the class is inherently broken and everyone knows that. So once everything is all said and done even if sam is untouched. That parse is likely to actually leave mch higher than sam overall. Which is actually a potential problem with the dps ladder. (Yes all dps should not provide the same exact amount of dps, otherwise ranged classes are inherently superior as they can take the place of melee or ranged whereas melee are forced to remain in melee range.) Though even that math is still wrong, but doing it correctly is more time than I and obviously you care to spend.