Thread: 5.08 Patch - DPS still not balanced.

Originally Posted by whiskeybravo

Lol

This thread is the bandwagon of strawmen complaining about stuff SE already told us they are addressing

But keep beating that horse. Maybe it'll happen faster.

Find me a single post, comment or interview from the development team that mentions the low damage of Summoner, Red Mage, Bard, Machinist or Dancer. I suspect I'll be waiting quite a while since Kajv already covered the only mention those respective jobs received.

Furthermore, it's both disingenuous and a flat cop out to insinuate good balance is somehow unachievable. Without changing a single aspect of the aforementioned jobs, simply increasing their potencies solves this issue, albeit in a rather boring manner. They already did this with Ninja, thus dispelling this nonsensical idea it's impossible. What it boils down to is these jobs are being overly punished for utility they either no longer have or isn't nearly as valuable as they devs believe. Verraise comes to mind, which became a significant issue for Red Mage during Stormblood. They ultimately had to buff it due to people disregarding the job in favor of Summoner. Why they taxed it yet again is beyond me, but the result has been the same. Except now Black Mage is the one pulling ahead.

Tell you what. If you can explain to us what justification there is for Black Mage to pull nearly two thousand more rDPS than Red Mage or Dragoon to be a thousand above Bard, I'll admit this is all hogwash and we're overreacting. And just for clarification purposes, please remember we're discussing raid DPS—the statistic which accounts for buffs. Therefore, the discrepancies I listed are accounting for all four jobs at total damage contribution, buffs included.