Thread: 5.08 Patch - DPS still not balanced.

Originally Posted by whiskeybravo

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Assuming we go back in time to right before savage hit, when people had 450 Eden gear and Titania weapons/Innocence accessories, and gear is basically not a factor anymore, the dps rankings at 95th percentile were as follows:

BLM: 12,019
Monk: 11,631
Samurai: 11,390
Dragoon: 11,202
Machinist: 10,832
Summoner: 10,559
Bard: 10,475.35
RDM: 10,077
Ninja: 9,460
Dancer: 9,102

That's a difference of 2,917 between dancer and black mage, black mage literally does 32% more rdps than dancer. We have had some post savage updates to jobs, but unless I'm recalling wrong black mage and dancer have largely remained untouched, and even though savage content is way more movement demanding than extreme content so it should bring blm's damage potential down a bit, this just shows that even without the high hitting jobs being super padded with raid gear, there's a huge gap between top and bottom.

That being said, while a 95th percentile dancer and a 95th percentile blm are both conbributing well to a party's damage, it doesn't sit well with me that skill doesn't translate to high damage (relatively speaking) for a lot of jobs.

Edit: These numbers seem kind of low considering that going back to my own personal logs, 95th on Titania was 11k on dancer, and on Innocence 95th was 10.8k, but regardless, the numbers are probably lower on all the other jobs too, though I can't figure out what I did in the filtering options to make the numbers so low. My point still stands though on there still being a significant gap even when gear isn't an issue.