Musings on DNC and meta comps in ShB

[Veis_Alveare]

Some thoughts now that the NDA is lifted.

Magic pairing with dances sounds like a big change at first but all it does it open up the option to partner a caster during their burst, CPM on casters (especially once you exclude abilities) is generally much lower in terms of sustained damage I feel like we'll be partnering MNK or NIN.

I'm interested in alternate comps as well - my own group will likely have me on DNC as well as a BRD. Partnering him might be wise but I understand for now at least we're still in the mindset of 2melee/1ranged/1caster. BRD seems like it's going to be a quick job, could defintely be on the table especially whenever I line up with Raging.

I'm concerned overall - at this point it feels like DNC is definitely going to become the BRD of ShB... in every group all the time. I don't enjoy mandatory jobs and despite BRD somehow (unjustly) evading nerfs all throughout SB that doesn't mean DNC will be able to do the same and SE can be very heavy handed sometimes. I don't want to go from mandatory to excluded. I'm aware this is all entirely speculation but it's what's on my mind.

Overall I'm still excited, I hope not too much changes between now and ShB launch but if they brought down our potencies a bit or the potency of our buffs I wouldn't be too mad. It's going to be a fun job I just hope the community doesn't mess it up too much.

[Crushnight]

Some thoughts now that the NDA is lifted.

Magic pairing with dances sounds like a big change at first but all it does it open up the option to partner a caster during their burst, CPM on casters (especially once you exclude abilities) is generally much lower in terms of sustained damage I feel like we'll be partnering MNK or NIN.

I'm interested in alternate comps as well - my own group will likely have me on DNC as well as a BRD. Partnering him might be wise but I understand for now at least we're still in the mindset of 2melee/1ranged/1caster. BRD seems like it's going to be a quick job, could defintely be on the table especially whenever I line up with Raging.

I'm concerned overall - at this point it feels like DNC is definitely going to become the BRD of ShB... in every group all the time. I don't enjoy mandatory jobs and despite BRD somehow (unjustly) evading nerfs all throughout SB that doesn't mean DNC will be able to do the same and SE can be very heavy handed sometimes. I don't want to go from mandatory to excluded. I'm aware this is all entirely speculation but it's what's on my mind.

Overall I'm still excited, I hope not too much changes between now and ShB launch but if they brought down our potencies a bit or the potency of our buffs I wouldn't be too mad. It's going to be a fun job I just hope the community doesn't mess it up too much.

my grp is going ?/dnc/mch/smn for dps the ? is someone who is either going mnk or hlr so we may have a replacement needed there but if not then mnk then mch might be best for me then if smn burst is high enough they may get it instead, so 2 physical range won't be much a problem the only thing you have to be wary of is the defense buff as they can't stack