i'm curious, but don't ninja is slash damage?

plus i want to point out something interesting, the real end game is only touched by something like 5-8% of the community, do they must tailored a jobs for this little part of the community and content? good blm is 3-4 in terms of dps... but if i'm right it fighting for the first place in terms of ranged dps, no?

i have always fail to understand why people try to compare different type of dps together, melee have other trouble that they need to deal with, like need to move between enemy, avoid all cleave and such, respect positional is not the same demand... the fact that melee outshine ranged is normal... i don't say that blm is not means to be a strong dps, i only say that melee need to be above ranged or else, we will see one more time the situation of the 2.1 where no melee dps was wanted only ranged was used because it was safer and better to have ranged dps that was dealing as much dps than melee without any of them trouble.

ranged dps have to deal with a different sort of positional... but it's part of the jobs, at least you don't loose 30% of damage and 15% of attack speed if you don't attack for more of 15 second...

all in all, yoshida have said that the blm will receive a bit of love, but if they make it first dps it will kill the whole purpose of the samurai... that bring nothing to the table and is only here for dps. at least blm with role skill can help on some stuff. not the sam. it's a story of balance...

i will repeat it, make ranged > or = melee in terms of dps is simply bad and will lead to a situation that will not be healthy.

ps: to the op how a jobs that is about the 3rd or 4th dps is the worst dps... seriously?

pss: to haroldsaxon, well yes one person play the black mage in the dev team a certain Naoki Yoshida ^^