Quote Originally Posted by CrashofZenki View Post
You wanted a reason to why, do refrain from calling me biased tho.

Uptime difference is the reason. Having a ranged is safer in terms of uptime and survivability looking at their free movement without punishing their dps. NINs still need a lot more variables to be considered taken instead of a physical ranged.

NIN:
1. melee range/positionals
2. timed casts and imobility from Ten-Chi-Jin
3. hugely affected by the performance of the other 7 players in the party when using TA.
4. Does less rDPS than the other Melees.

Physical Ranged:
1. Personal Performance.
(Only for DNC) 2. performance of the other 7 players in the party.
at 90% percentile (grabbed a random nin on leviathan (so every positional auto hit) with a 89 group performance, so nin perfectly in line with the group as far as contribution goes) missing every single armor crush and aeolian edge, literally every single one would result in a loss of 300 dps, and i dare say if someone would manage to do that their performance would suck on every single job either way. also (this time i grabbed some random 15% (without death , after patch, so someone that literally sucked ass))nin from e1, you know the turn where the boss jumps away from time to time and even that person managed to keep his auto attack (meaning he was in melee range) up basically constantly.

Positionals/melee range if you are even a semi decent player and not some carried 10% while wearing bis guy that screams how everyone else is op will in fact cost you nearly nothing in a normal setting even if you do fuck up a positional or two, its also too early (as lots of people will not have equipped nin because especially the total uber top players tend to play whats best for the group) to tell if it really does less rdps than the other melees, sims at least say no it doesn't (no, having 30 dps less than a dragoon at the end of the day is not "dealing less rdps, we cant all be the best class down to a single point of dps.) and the "hugely affected by the group" aspect, well yes that is true, but if you are a 20% nin in a 90% static you got bigger problems, and if its the other way around you don't seem to care that much about absolute top performance or you wouldn't stay with that group.