SAM out classing all other DPS

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Why are they all below the casters except samurai? RDM and SMN also provide pretty good utility in the form of embolden and devotion not to mention they both get raises and rdm has a nice heal. They are also fairly mobile compared to BLM and lack the positionals or fairly precarious play style of a melee dps which is typically why melee dps had the edge in damage.

I'm still of the mindset that RDM is the Job people should keep their eye on most, and that's the most scary DPS in the expansion currently. DPS values of SAM are nuts, but RDM has the potential to really shake things up in a big way.

And yes, it's why I said there were other factors playing a part with DRG being considered terrible. I was a DRG since Heavy Thrust wouldn't apply without the positional requirement. Ohhhhh I was there, unfortunately. Kept with it though. It was how DRG was viewed, still. I don't really count NIN in on that, because they promptly buffed DRG's Full Thrust combo to be stronger right after NIN was released. Not to mention, NIN's numbers were only higher out of the (probably oversight) that they could skip a whole combo tree with WAR maintaining the slashing buff.

Either way, we could forget all of that and just break it down like this.

Jobs with no raid utility, which has only ever been DRG, and MNK at this point (even though MNK definitely always had Mantra) have went on to receive it in future patches. And it was in effort to make them more attractive to a party, because without it, people just don't care about what small benefit you might bring on your own. They want to feel it too.