Quote Originally Posted by Gruntler View Post
You. Look. At. It. All. There is no other analysis that makes sense. You don't cherry pick.
Jobs should be balanced around the high end because that's when their kits are utilize to the fullest and has the potential to be broken. It's at these high percentiles where the imbalances show to their fullest extent as the element of skill variance is removed. The simple counterexample to your argument is BLM. BLM has always been low at median and on the lower quadrilles, but extremely powerful in the hands of skilled players. Following your logic, BLM should receive a buff.

Another issue in your argument is that you arguing about looking at more than just percentiles. While it's true that jobs shouldn't be based solely on dps percentiles, the post you responded to specifically referred to the context of just percentiles. They did not say you should only balance off percentiles, but rather if you do, you should be balancing off the high end.

Sidenote, I find it ironic how much you ridiculed the idea of "just 95th percentile" being a single point of data and the importance to look at a range of data, when they said "90+", which is a fine amount of data and not a single point.