Samurai Buff Speculation

[Shurrikhan]

Yeah, I agree completely. FFLogs is popular and really good at what it does--providing data on a large (relative) scale, but this app proves it's not showing the whole picture, and it kind of needs to. An ingame variant would only be the icing on top.

Well, there's one mathed out bit of guesswork confirmed:

In the majority of NIN speedruns, NIN has the second lowest raid DPS, following only MCH.
Hypercharge may have increased multiplicity for big bursts, but following its latest unnecessary nerf, it does not seem to be stacking up well against the entirety of a permanent DHit buff, a further DHit CD, and Foe Requiem to boot.

Whereas DRG in double-ranged setups is doing pretty much exactly what everyone though it was. That said, great BLMs and especially MNKs are also just as I thought they might be for comps somewhat optimized towards them (Contagion and full Physical, respectively)...

Now if Samurai and Red Mage could just join the fray...

I know this isn't a RDM thread, but so long as the tyranny of verraise is around, there'll be player revolts from people who overblow it's general usefulness if there are ever any buffs. Claire's post in that thread perfectly elucidates my feelings on raising in combat for prog, though.

Didn't'cha'know? We need more than 3 instant Raises per minute, and preferably from the already most mana-strapped of the three casters at that. Surely that rate of massacre is still recoverable and contributes to meaningful learning...