Quote Originally Posted by Bourne_Endeavor View Post
No worries!

A NIN provides support outside damage with Smokescreen and Shadewalker.The former can be invaluable due to the frequency of boss aggro resets lately or WHM generating a massive amount of hate. Another factor to consider is if we swap out the SAM for a DRG, what changes? The DRG's DPS will be approximately 5,400-5,600 but the whole raid now benefits from Litany, the NIN will likely get Dragon Sight several times throughout the fight, upping their numbers and the BRD's DPS will jump 500-600 points. You can see this with other parses too; BRDs surpassing 6k. The only way for a SAM to compete is if an AST feeds them cards since they benefit the most from a single target Balance.

When RDM/SMN gets swapped out for MCH, that is another boost DRG offers on top of everything above (And why I think they need to do away with Piercing). Basically, SAMs have to be borderline flawless to achieve comparable numbers to jobs with far better utility. And this is only using NIN, who has weak personal DPS. MNK, on the other hand, actually out damages SAM in all categories while bringing Mantra.

I also dug a bit deeper. The SAM parsed with his 375 weapon while the NIN still only had her 350 crafted. So all things made equal, she would actually out-dps him.
Ya same comment as I made about the utility. This is also where problems come in because the player base as I said are looking at the individual but SE balance around total raid dps.then this becomes a back and forth issue and then certain jobs getting left behind. Currently, some groups are bringing MCH, BRD, NIN, DRG this is a crit based composition. So yea I don't know what SE can do about it tbh! but if they do it will have to be something that upsets the current structures