Quote Originally Posted by Lambdafish View Post
You are right that tier 2 should be buffed by a large margin, and I agree, but with MNK in the state that it is now, the tier 1 jobs also need to be rebalanced so that jobs like SAM and BLM are more powerful than MNK (Which the original point was about FYI, I never mentioned Tier 2 jobs), what kind of effect would that have on fights and the state of savage as whole? Personally, I get creator flashbacks.

As I said, power creep exists.
Oh, I totally agree that monk shouldn't be pushing out the same personal DPS or better than BLM/SAM while also offering a ton of party utility. They kind of put themselves in a crappy position with these knee-jerk monk changes because scaling them back after the fact will make them seem incompetent. Buffing jobs to compete with MNK is not the right approach because in my opinion it's the only job right now that is just too strong in a category of jobs that is already notably stronger than ranged dps or casters barring BLM. I think the right approach in this case is scaling monk back slightly while bringing SAM closer to BLM's level.

However, your statement of "you can't just bring the bottom up" is far too open to misinterpretation in that case, because when I think "bottom" I'm thinking the absolute dregs of the DPS charts where dancer is currently wallowing in sewage.