This thread is sorta... <.<;

DRG and MNK are going to beat out a WAR on single target 10 times out of 10.

Survivability is a joke, if you are going to die you are going to die regardless of which class it is (WAR still doesn't survive 100 swing even with higher Def. and HP when DPSing).

WAR will do more -total- damage in AoE sitations such as Ant Princess (WARs 30-40k total damage, MNK/DRG ~10-14k depending on fight length). I'd say Moogle also but since they all have regen doing AoE on them doesn't do anything besides pad the meters.

Saying a DPS is better because it survives better is so messed up; DPS should never get to the point where they need to assess if they will be able to live the boss for which class to go on besides for the obvious RANGE vs MELEE debate which is another thing entirely from this thread.