DPS Balance Thread

[Zerathor]

With that out of the way how do we address SAM? One of the issues I keep hearing is that its DPS is not strong enough to compete with a BLM. That, and possibly how confusing its rotation is for newcomers who are 52; not really introducing the Job mechanic well by adding hidden positionals and a Jenkins gauge.

Sam doesn't have to compete with blm. Range slots vs melee slots.

It needs to compete with monk in terms of raw dps, and beat monk. The next hard thing is 2 range 2 melee, the 2 melee are optimally drg+nin for the raid dps gain and utility. Sam's personal dps has to compete with the damage lost from trick attack+eminity solutions, or litany+eye+piercing vuln. And that's next to impossible.