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    Myon Miya
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    Viper Lv 100
    Something you need to note is that the impression that SMN is putting out impressive numbers is party due to the fact that radiant shield damage produced by the entire raid is being attributed to the summoner. It would be kind of like if the extra damage done thanks to a ninja's trick attack was added back to the ninja instead of the other 7 people. It's a bit of a grey area as while it is a raidwide buff that requires a party to capitalize on it, it provides raw damage via extra attacks instead of a being stat buff like other job's raid buffs that increase damage indirectly.

    I'm not saying they're fine even disregarding radiant shield completely - maybe they're still too high, who knows? But for the sake of fairness, factors like this are important to keep in mind. The moogles that sit on your shoulder and help count your damage aren't very good at counting dots too (maybe because the numbers are too small), and there's a lot of weirdness happening there.

    It's easy to get the impression that certain jobs are disproportionately weak or strong if data is interpreted in a certain way, but only SE knows the full story at the end of the day.
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    Last edited by Myon88; 10-03-2017 at 03:27 AM.