Quote Originally Posted by Miralyth View Post
I have no opinion on changes to job mechanics, so I'll be providing a simple opinion on damage:

rDPS in categories from highest to lowest:

NIN/DRG:
- pDPS tax for damage buffs
MNK/SMN:
-pDPS tax for damage buffs
-rDPS tax for mantra/raise
-raise is a strong utility, but not spammable as with a RDM, and devotion is very weak compared to brotherhood, hence the same category
BRD/RDM/DNC:
-pDPS tax for damage buffs
-rDPS tax b/c of various utility and mobility (BRD/DNC) (see below)
-rDPS tax for vercure and strongest raise potential in the game
SAM/BLM/MCH:
-MCH about 150-250 behind BLM and SAM accounting for mechanics.
-MCH is lower because of mobility tax, which is a pretty small advantage in modern Savage and can at times be a disadvantage (e.g. raid expects ranged to carry mechanics the furthest, meaning they have a much smaller window to get back in time for AoE healing; melee only go to max melee range to drop mechanics, lots of finger spaghetti when moving for prolonged periods, certain camera type configurations can turn character around when moving away, requiring you to jump while doing rotation).
-rDPS tax for all three for having the highest pDPS.

The rDPS difference between NIN/DRG (highest) and MCH (lowest) should be about 500-600 around 90th percentile.

pDPS order:
SAM/BLM
MCH
MNK/SMN
NIN/DRG
BRD/RDM/DNC

YES SQUARE ENIX LISTEN TO THIS GUY PLEASE DAMN HOW HARD IS IT TO READ AND LISTEN TO THR PLAYERS. This is 100% how the order should be! Sam-blm-mch-mnk-smn. But we all know they won’t listen or care. Specially when yoshi mains blm. Lmao the creator is 2nd to none!