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

[Kabooa]

I agree would be extremely interesting to know the exact possible rdps that a SAM can provide via slashing

Something like 6% of a paladin, 9% of a dark knight, 10% bonus to Samurai. There is no real loss to applying Slash as it's on all built in combos that are part of the core rotation, unlike Monks who still theoretically lose out for applying Dragon Kick over Bootshine (Double Monks, it's like almost a 1-2% bonus if you can just bootshine while the other guy upkeeps the buff)

So if you take a good but not top tier of those three jobs, assuming no other slashing debuff for some odd reason, Samurai adds something like another 800ish to the raid. (4-500 for itself, 90 for Paladin, 150-180 Dark Knight)