Thread: 5.08 Patch - DPS still not balanced.

Originally Posted by CrashofZenki

Cut off a couple of damage percentages of DRG (about 2%), a bit more on BLM and MNK (3%) and boost every other job's damage percentage by about 5% (RDM, SMN, MCH, BRD, SMN, NIN) and about 6% on DNC.

No. At least for BLM. I find it funny that BLM got dumped on so bad last expac when 'Utility' was coin of the realm but now that it's meta, the complaint is that it's too powerful.

That's the point. Its the glass cannon. Always has been.

It's drawback will always be spell speed, lack of maneuverability, and its squish factor. All of these things are factored in for 'balacing.' Having a potency buff on a power-class with one of the steepest learning curves, along with its many built-in drawbacks means very little in the great scheme of things. Sure we got tools now to help with some of our worst problems, but those who jumped on the BLM wagon just for the sake of being meta is finding out the hard way that those numbers mean very little unless you A) play the class well and B) have a good grasp of the content. Which is a very basic requirement for pretty much all end-game content; regardless of class.

BLM doesn't need a nerf. It needs competency training. In inexperienced hands its a mediocre class--only in experienced hands does it shine and not any brighter than it should.

Originally Posted by Ursa_Vonfiebryd

BLM doesn't need a nerf. It needs competency training. In inexperienced hands its a mediocre class--only in experienced hands does it shine and not any brighter than it should.

The numbers don't actually back this up. The simple fact of the matter is that, as it stands now, a barely average BLM will contribute equal or more rDPS to the party than a BRD or RDM that plays well enough to finish in the top 5% of their class. If your BLM is a little above average, then they can reach numbers no RDM or BRD could even dream of hitting. Similarly, the same holds true at lower levels - An awful BLM will also beat an awful RDM (admittedly by a smaller margin from what I've seen). It's true that the gap closes a bit when the players are both bad, but if BLM was as difficult a job as the people who play it like to suggest, then at some point you would see that difficulty shine through in the hands of bad players. I'm not really seeing that, what I'm seeing is that they hold their own just fine against other jobs even when the person playing them is doing a poor job.