Thread: Summoner is doing too much in 5.10

Originally Posted by Akiudo

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I have to say I'm not terribly knowledgable regarding the discrepancies of the output on the physical ranged jobs.... so I'm going to go at your example and say that if the difference between a bard and a machinist playing at equal skill levels is 100 DPS then that's a difference that regardless of which way it leaned in favor of, I'd be okay with. The jobs are never exactly balanced 100% so we just kind of have to accept that there will be some jobs that do slightly more and some that do slightly less.

It definitely feels bad to be the one doing less. I saw that as someone who was playing red mage for raid this expansion up till this patch. So I really do understand the feel bad when you look at the others in your role outperforming you. If the discrepancy is large, then definitely it's something that should be fixed. If it's small, then I would just say to roll with it. Sometimes some jobs in a role do slightly better than the others, sometimes they do slightly worse, and the best we can hope for is to be close to the same once party buffs are taken into consideration.

Though there will be people who want to squeeze out every last point of DPS from the team as possible, and will refuse entry for certain jobs, most players will look at such a minor discrepancy and roll with it. In fact sometimes even if the bard is slightly lower, some players will look at it and think "yeah, but they're raising MY DPS" and insist on the bard anyway.

As far as the crit buff, I only say that it will even out in the long term because nerfing jobs has been notoriously unpopular and Square tends to save those changes for the major expansions. Giving a job a buff that's balanced now but is over powered in a year or two will only cause more problems down the line, which is probably why the developers were cautious about it right now. Bard song buffs were really strong in Stormblood, and they don't want to go down that rabbit hole again. Easier to buff bard more in the future than over adjust it now and have to justify nerfing it.

That said, if your job is suffering being too far behind machinist, I do hope for you and all people who main it that the discrepancy is adjusted sooner than later.