Quote Originally Posted by CKNovel View Post
You do realise that rDPS is the subject here and not pDPS?
rDPS is calculate by taking the DPS taken from buffs such as dancer, dragoon tether or embolden. It also adds the DPS given with Brotherhood.
Meaning despite the jobs giving and taking from the team, MNK and BLM are still crazy broken and despite the DNC taking a good 5% DPS from a broken MNK, it's still the lowest rDPS

As for your Nin, I don't know why you think it's okay. It's actually the whole reason, if that Nin's comp was MNK+BLM then they could allow the Ninja's death. If their comp was NIN/RDM/DNC/BRD, the Ninja's death would put much more pressure on the rest of the team.

More DPS doesn't simply mean more DPS. It means more flexibility and margin of error.
Just to further emphasise this. aDPS specifically does not count single target buffs. Currently, there is no ranking where anyone but the Dancer or Astro themselves benefit from their respective buffs.

Quote Originally Posted by AikenDrum View Post
Why do people defending current "balance" play as blm+mnk+drg and have week 1 clears that wouldn't be possible with other jobs?

I mean, I'd understand if general consensus was to nerf those jobs, but people are mostly advocating for bringing other jobs to blm/mnk/drg level, so it's not like it would affect their clears... Why then?
Admittedly, I think all three could be nerfed slightly. And I play Dragoon. That being said, I suspect it's because people defending them either don't follow FFlogs or are only concerned with clearing. For them, the how doesn't matter just the end result. And some will simply defend SE blindly. It was no different when the Lily system was rightfully ridiculed as a complete mess. You still saw people shouting from the hilltops how everything was fine.