Quote Originally Posted by Ariomi View Post
SMN vs BLM
One is a speed run parse, the other is a dedicated padding parse.

The BLM got every dmg buff, including single Balance, Contagion from Garuda, Dragon Sight,.....while the SMN only got AoE raid buff.

Not a good comparison if you asked me.

One that note thou, SMN dps IS LOWER than BLM on paper. The only time SMN would pull ahead is when there is a lot of movement involved. So on a cherry-picked parse of utmost possible padding/catering, there is no surprised that SMN is lower than BLM. The percentile graph is pretty inaccurate too given there are much more BLM's parses than SMN's parses. The top 100 BLM might be the 99% percentile while the top 10 SMN is 99%.....

In general, I would say SMN and BLM are pretty close. SMN might be better for speed-run thou.