Quote Originally Posted by Sylve View Post
Its even more amusing when you realize that every job was present for week 1 E4S clears.
This means every job is viable not necessarily balanced. You're mixing up the terms. No one is denying Ninja, Dancer or any other job can clear content. The issue is certain jobs are simply much better. Case in point, a 20% Monk contributes more rDPS than a 50% Ninja. This makes it more advantageous to bring Monk even if the player sucks because they'll still do better than an average Ninja. That, however, does not mean Ninja is so weak it cannot clear.

And as Taiyou noted, rDPS subtracts external buffs. Even aDPS removes single target buffs like Closed Position and Astro cards. This means what you're seeing on FFlogs is roughly what Monk and Black Mage are capable of purely on their own.