Quote Originally Posted by Faeon View Post
Higher because they bring nothing to the raid, currently NIN brings smoke screen, shade and trick.
...all of which are accounted in "Raid DPS".

Separate these two:
Personal DPS is the total amount of DPS you personally do.
Raid DPS is personal DPS plus any DPS the group as a whole gains from your utility spells.

For a person without utility spells, personal DPS equals raid DPS. For a person with utility spells, it doesn't. All that guy is saying is that the number you need to equalize is raid DPS rather than personal DPS. Which... is pretty much common sense and hopefully the balancing ideal of people.