Quote Originally Posted by Nominous View Post
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.

I think you quoted the wrong part which might make it seem out of context, but DRG was my first class aswell, got it to 50 august the 31st on my original account. I didn't even use heavy thrust until titan HM because I thought it didn't work. Jump used to last like 2-3 seconds and full thrust was only 300 potency while missing impulse drive meant no combo. Ooooh I also remember it bro, I only stopped playing DRG in 2.2 because a static needed a MNK for t9 but I will never forget how bad DRG was even if I liked the class itself (that being said it was the class I got the nexus on so I never truly stopped playing it, just not for raids)

But I agree with your point though, they always eventually add utility to the non utility class (which imo is the definition of homogenization) but the problem is the gaps are getting bigger and bigger and everyone wants to have the big epeen which is where some of the salt is coming from.

I will reiterate: as much as I'm not a fan of a class that is going to be popular anyway (weeb fanbase) being the 'main character dps' class, samurai is current fine and doesn't require any changes. However RDM and SMN should not be stronger than MNK and NIN and definitely not as far ahead as they are of DRG.