Quote Originally Posted by Nominous View Post
This is such a simple situation, I'm not understanding how blind people are to why SAM is balanced the way it is.

So. Let's say they brought everyone closer to Samurai damage. Let's say SAM does... at BEST, 10% more damage than the next best Job. Why bring SAM for 10% more damage, when you could have Battle Litany for the WHOLE PARTY, and Dragon Sight? Why bring SAM when you could have Trick Attack FOR THE WHOLE PARTY? Why bring SAM when you could have Brotherhood and Mantra FOR THE WHOLE PARTY?

Each slot in your party in an end-game setting needs to be looked at in terms of not only it's raw DPS, but it's overall benefit to total raid DPS. The most powerful DPS right now are NIN and RDM. Specifically RDM, because they can offer some of the highest damage, it can heal, res, AND offers a damage buff that is comparable in strength (due to uptime) as Trick Attack. Same as NIN, who is the second highest Melee damage next to SAM, AND offers Trick Attack to your party.

SAM is powerful, but it adds nothing to your party but damage. If you're taking it, it NEEDS to fulfill this role. I'd be careful what you ask for. Because when other things get buffed, and SAM complain (the same way MNK complained, for the same reasons), SAM is only going to get buffed in the end, and then they'll really be broken. The same thing happened in 3.xx where MCH and BRD got counter-buffed against one another because one community complained, then the other.
You are missing the point of what I said. There is absolutely no reason there should ever be a 25% damage gap between the highest and lowest DPS. EVER. That gap just literally invalidates the weakest class. SAM will not be buffed. I see them taking around 100~ or so DPS from SAM the same way they hit NIN in 2.45. MCH was a balancing nightmare since the start. They couldn't figure out how to balance either of them and over buffed both of them. The DPS order should be Melee>=Casters>Ranged. That's fine. But the current gap between top and bottom is too big. It needs to be narrowed. Seeing as how you are a SAM your points and view point are biased. But pretty much the entire community besides SAMs think that they are overtuned and need to be brought down a little.