Quote Originally Posted by Kokomi View Post
Please explain how being "ranged, melee, or having cast bars" should factor into job balance and why this is better than balancing based on difficulty.

Also, I'm curious why you're being so aggressive with someone who has a different opinion. Apparently I'm a "special snowflake" because I play ninja and I said it's a difficult class, then you said "Please don't take this the wrong way but I'm glad you don't balance MMOs as that would be a horrid way to balance a MMO" and you keep trying to dismiss my arguments as "cherry pick" or "straw man."

Edit: I read over my original post and I think I didn't say exactly what I meant. I think all classes should do enough DPS to be able to clear savage content, i.e. not be a liability for their team. This seems to be the case for RDM. However if RDM is easier to play than other classes then I see no reason that it should do the same amount of DPS.
I'm not trying to be aggressive. I do respect your opinion. However, when arguing your point, you selected data only that would bolster your stance and omitted data that would not. AKA cherry picking. Then you misrepresented what myself and others are saying by employing a hyperbolic and perhaps rhetorical question in an attempt to change the argument into one you thought that would be easier to defeat. AKA straw man.

e.g., Party 1: "I think RDM is under performing and should be buffed." Party 2: "So you would make all DPS equal?"

I don't mean to offend you and I am not out to get you. This isn't personal. Just a civil argument.