Quote Originally Posted by HyoMinPark View Post
Thank you! I knew it had a couple different meanings, but I could only recall Most Effective Tactical Advatage.

And I agree. A lot of people but a lot of stock behind "meta".
It's not just RDPS.

Recovery options, defensive options, and so forth all play a part as well.

This is my primary problem with the tool distribution at the moment. The damage disparity between a Cannon class like Samurai and Blamurai is too small to justify the suite of tools they lose out on for it. All of which seem to get stocked into the Ranged DPS role.

Universal damage downs, interrupts, party damage boosts, partywide MP/TP restore, and not only sufficient but excellent damage contribution. Combine this with the fact that they are least hindered by movement, they are always capable of hitting the boss, and every penalty they had before was removed in Stormblood, and the 5% nerf on Disembowel felt like a token effort to offset this. Honestly, you could have kept it at 10% and frankly nothing changes.