DPS Balance Thread

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BRD: Excels in support; superior to MCH in just about any raid comp and provides a plethora of Offensive and Defensive Buffs while having high damage throughput with songs. Has a lower skill ceiling than MCH and isn’t as reliant on ping.

MCH: High Damage Burst Job, capable of dealing high damage and providing an alternative to NIN(albeit a little weaker) while also bring the same Role Skills as BRD. Lacks all the buffs except Hypercharge(5% rDPS increase) and has a very high skill ceiling in regards to double-weaving and overheating with ping.

This is completely backwards. BRD has a much higher skill ceiling than MCH and a much lower skill floor. A BRD can do a simple basic rotation and still get pretty good dps off, but the the job itself offers a lot of potential to maximise damage if you take the time to learn optimisations. On the other hand, a MCH that doesn’t know the basic rotation is going to do really poor damage, but once the rotation is committed to memory, there’s not much more you can do to push your damage since optimal MCH play is pushing buttons off cooldown.

Next, MCH is in no way an alternative to NIN. They fill different roles, and really they should be used in tandem. Trick Attack lines up almost perfectly with Wildfire, so the presence of a NIN is a big boon to MCH damage. Trick Attack and Hypercharge also stack, so more reason to use them together.

Finally, MCH has more utility than just Hypercharge. Obviously it doesn’t have anywhere near as much utility as BRD, but alongside Hypercharge, Dismantle is incredibly useful in end game, where there are 45k raidwide AoEs and 10k a tick raidwide DoTs. Healers will love you if you use Dismantle well. And while BRD does Troubadour which fulfills a similar sort of role as Dismantle, the cooldown is three times as long and it isn't reliable since it's tied to certain songs. Also, MCH is a better user of Refresh than BRD for the purposes of party-wide regen. A BRD will often Refresh early on in the opener to extend the duration of Foe’s Requiem, which will often result in healers still being at max mana when used. A MCH doesn’t have this same situation and becomes a lot more flexible in its Refresh usage, using it primarily for enmity and regen rather than DPS.