Quote Originally Posted by Shamox View Post
Probably because you can't tell if a NIN is good or bad by only looking at its personal dps.

Beside being pretty much hardware dependant there's actually way more than simply doing your rotation correctly and using everything on cooldown, you have to adapt and you can optimize your whole rotation (and ninki rotation) depending of each fight, you also have to map every trick attack correctly to get the most rDPS out of it, same goes for enmity management.

Monk gameplay overall feels empty, of course there's gonna be optimization just like any classes and you'll have to get mantras where it's needed yet it wont be as demanding.

Overall what these numbers shows is that optimization is less rewarding depending of each class.

Imo in terms of difficulty a melee classment would probably be NIN - DRG > SAM - MNK.

I wouldn't really take any of these FFlogs stats as facts since there's many factors that actually impacts on your dps and just as I said you don't judge a class difficulty nor a player's skill only by its dps.
(Aaand if I really were to check them I wouldn't go as down as the 50th % percentil tbh.)
It's the degree of DPS deviation from the median to the top end with the extremely catered outliers found in the 99th and Max Percentile left out. It is literally a direct measurement of the degree of human error each job is prone to in a normal raid environment, including the "many factors that impact your DPS" that all jobs are subject too. Since Ninja is clearly less prone to having it's DPS and performance impacted by human error, then it's easier.

You can keep insisting you're right and that Ninja is the hardest melee, but the aggregated evidence disagrees with you. You say that Mudra's and lag severely impact Ninja's performance, the data says no, it doesn't particularly impact Ninja's performance to the degree that other factors impact Dragoon or Monk. You say Ninja has to map out Aggro Management and Trick Attack, well the same is true for Monk and Dragoon, they have to plan out their use of their own cool downs so as to best benefit the raid and not be impacted by the mechanics.