Quote Originally Posted by File2ish View Post
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My luck with drawing a Bard in my parties is about as consistent as me getting a Ewer every time I actually need to use one. Very poor.

Anyways, right now there is something that is mucking with the logs that needs fixing so that we can see the true DPS of RDM vs BLM, especially with the coming changes:

RDM has a mana glitch that makes use of the reduced gain caused by mana imbalance. Not only is the gain reduced, but expenditure as well. This allows a RDM that adjusts for this to burst combo more often leading to higher then intended damage output which is influencing the logs. In fact, leading to there being an almost 400-500 DPS difference between the top RDM on the JP/EU servers vs the NA ones on Susano.

Aside from that RDM and BLM are actually competing very close to each other on the logs in the susano fight. The upcoming BLM buffs should definitely push it over RDM, and if that mana glitch is fixed then RDM will definitely be underneath BLM in damage output even in a fight that it has the mobility advantage in.