My Analysis of BLM's issues and why it is currently the worst DPS class.

[Terkhev]

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?

And why would they be ignored? They pay same sub.

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...

In current tier there are barely any differences. While you don't want more than 2 melee because of positioning, DPS is DPS. Having pointy hat doesn't mean I won't feel bad for slowing down my whole team just because I decided to play this job and not the other.
Also, there is no "melee > ranged" DPS difference. Every job has its own spot in ranking.

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 ^^

BLM is worst simply because it offers the least. If you play BLM you are worth less than any other DPS class of same skill level.

And HaroldSaxon clearly said "high level". Judging from balance, it's only natural to assume YoshiP doesn't.