Thread: 4.05 DPS Ranking Expectations

Originally Posted by MiruWest

Why should casters be ahead of melee, asking for a friend?

The distinction between a caster, a melee physical dps and a ranged physical dps should be inconsequential for balancing.
You look at what a job brings- utility (defensive and offensive) and personal dps, and weight those out.
A ranged and melee job with the same utility should have the same dps in a raid setting (use statistical metrics to verify this).
A caster and melee with similar utility would also follow suit there.

Of course there's the issue of role-specific utility, and you should also account for that and use it to compare jobs within the same role, but that utility is usually not as relevant (outside ranged working as mp batteries, that might be a big thing).

These numbers should the first and foremost concern (perhaps, the only concern, as things like "difficulty in execution" or "rotational complexity" are inherently subjective and it's hard to find an unbiased metric to go by that could account for such things).