Quote Originally Posted by Bardo View Post
The amount of hyperbole in this thread is absolutely staggering.
A class is "trash tier" if they do 2% less dps?
/facepalm
Welcome to an MMO forum where if your class isn't topping the charts AND bringing the most utility to the group, it's trash. People see the charts and they don't want to just be useful to the group, they want to win against everyone else. Egos are strong in the gaming community. Unfortunately, it's much easier to judge performance based on numbers than abstract things like utility. It's why "support" classes aren't as popular as they could be.

WoW was the same way. Looking at numbers in Legion and with the exception of a couple extreme cases on the ends of the spectrum (like when Hunters were just bad), the top and bottom DPS was within 5% of each other. Yet, people complained it wasn't enough, despite the fact that it could all easily clear content and that it's incredibly difficult to balance like 20+ DPS jobs perfectly.