Thread: 5.08 Patch - DPS still not balanced.

Originally Posted by whiskeybravo

And what if it can't be solved? As long as some jobs have things that other jobs don't, there will always be a comparatively superior arrangement of them.

So what if MNK/BLM is the highest damage comp. That's all you're actually looking for, is it not? You want the fastest kill and the highest damage. Want being the key word. That doesn't mean everybody has to submit to the rankings. That doesn't mean every job has to compete for the highest damage. If one feels obligated to succumb to the community's projection of inadequacy onto certain jobs than it's on them. Nobody disputes that all jobs are viable. The only thing being disputed is that not every job is in the place of claiming they deal the most damage.

Yeah, no. Everyone knows that's disingenuous bollocks.

You're projecting personal interest onto the community. The uproar exists for a reason, it's just hard to pin down the causes because most people lack the knowledge and means to adequately explain it clearly.

It is in the interest of the developers to address this, if only for the sake of future-proofing future content. Because if everything remains as is, and we get better gear as the game progresses... What do you think will happen? The gap will widen, and most people arguing for us to just forget about it and move on don't consider that the developers have to pick a certain point to balance future content around. The wider the gap gets, the harder that becomes. Want to balance the next Ultimate under the assumption that 3/4 of the DPS consists of the top five? With the skill level that Ultimate expects of you, a party consisting of 3/4 of the bottom 5 might find it near impossible to clear unless all of the DPS were consistent 90+% people, with zero mistakes afforded. Balancing the next Ultimate at a point that's the other way around basically gives the 3/4 top five comp the ability to make more mistakes.

Maybe people just want a teamwork-oriented game to actually be as balanced as possible! Because the reality is, the moment the balance gets tipped too far one way or another, the community perception can tip it further. You can crow at people to ignore this and stick to their principles all you want, but that is much much easier said than done in such a teamwork-oriented game such as this.