Thread: 4.05 DPS Ranking Expectations

Originally Posted by Chronons

A lot of people have said I am wrong, not so much on the showing.

Even your own data suggesting you're wrong...

Originally Posted by Osh1mA

Even your own data suggesting you're wrong...

How exactly?

Originally Posted by Chronons

How exactly?

Bc it's show no statistically meaningful difference in uptime???

Originally Posted by Chronons

You would need to measure across every fight in the game the uptime between BLM and SAM to definitively say one had greater uptime over the other. You dont have that data, I dont have that data. Until then its purely speculation.

Uptime tells us nothing. And we don't need any data to know that BLM is much more punished by mechanics purely because of how BLM works. Seriously tho, just stop. It becomes very silly.

Originally Posted by Chronons

You would need to measure across every fight in the game the uptime between BLM and SAM to definitively say one had greater uptime over the other. You dont have that data, I dont have that data. Until then its purely speculation.

For BLM to have the same uptime as SAM, the BLM would need to stand in the same exact spot for the entire fight and never move. Sure, on dummy targets they're about the same, but in actual real content, there's no contest. SAM easily has more uptime because they are a melee instant cast job. So what if you get targeted by a mechanic? Just move and continue dpsing while you move. Stay near the boss, perform the mechanic, and continue doing what you do.

BLM has to do things like move out of their leylines, cancel casts to perform mechanics, move their asses into stack mechanics and such. SAM gets 100% uptime on both their damage up and haste buffs, our weaponskills activate instantly, not to mention how on every single encounter that has a stack mechanic, the party (usually) places it on the boss, the Samurai doesn't even need to move. They're really not comparable at all especially at a high level of play.

So yes, you are, in fact, wrong.