Thread: 4.05 DPS Ranking Expectations

Originally Posted by Chronons

So MNK had been unfairly out dpsing BLM for like all of 2.0/3.0?

I would say so.

Originally Posted by Ferrasper

I would say so.

But they haven't really though have they? 2.0 BLM was far more simple, it had very little room for failure within the rotation. 3.0 BLM was a monster. Coupled with Foes, Casters were pretty much the top dps throughout the entirety of alex. Check the logs if you don't believe me. Even with the anti caster meta of 3.4+, casters were still at the top even if FFLogs if full of padding. Casters have always been powerful especially due to how potent foe's was.

Take what I'm about to say w/ a grain of salt or whatever, but as someone who has leveled a BLM to 70 and a SAM to 70, I felt like my BLM was definitely punished more in fights. I main SAM because I found it much more fun to play, and typically I can always find a way to DPS the boss. Maybe that's because I think I'm better than your average player? I dunno. I didn't play HW and I didn't play ARR, but as it stands now I feel like Melee isn't punished as much as casters are. Just my 2 cents though.

Originally Posted by HoLoFoNo

But they haven't really though have they? 2.0 BLM was far more simple, it had very little room for failure within the rotation. 3.0 BLM was a monster. Coupled with Foes, Casters were pretty much the top dps throughout the entirety of alex. Check the logs if you don't believe me. Even with the anti caster meta of 3.4+, casters were still at the top even if FFLogs if full of padding. Casters have always been powerful especially due to how potent foe's was.

I was more or less answering that way because his response was snarky, so my response was being snarky back. If you want my serious answer, as Galvuu and you said 2.0 was boring and simple as hell to do, so I wish we could have done a little more single target in it, but overall I was fine with it. As for 3.0, I honestly wasn't there for most of it because that is when I took a year break from the game because of job related reasons. With 4.0 though, I do strongly believe that we should be doing more then melee because of how short our windows are and how so easily it can get screwed up.

Originally Posted by Ferrasper

I was more or less answering that way because his response was snarky, so my response was being snarky back. If you want my serious answer, as Galvuu and you said 2.0 was boring and simple as hell to do, so I wish we could have done a little more single target in it, but overall I was fine with it. As for 3.0, I honestly wasn't there for most of it because that is when I took a year break from the game because of job related reasons. With 4.0 though, I do strongly believe that we should be doing more then melee because of how short our windows are and how so easily it can get screwed up.

I wouldn't say that's inherently a caster thing, it's more job specific.