Ranged DPS, choose a weakness that would justify a buff

[Akiudo]

This should make you realize that fflogs data is not all that matters. If DNC is weaker, why is it the preferred choice for speedrunners even now?

the notion that the evil evil parsing side is off by more than 500 dps, like off by enough more that groups simply realize this other class is better is one i will sincerely doubt.

Realistically the answer will be more in the realm of: "people just like to use what they know", yes people are like that. if not that than maybe they are right, dnc is stronger than mch at 99,5+ percentiles and therefore better for speedruns, especially as due to proccs alone dancer is a class with more volatile damage numbers than mch. in a normal group if the dancer is allways 300 under the mch unless its his god run than you will say fuck that, dnc sucks. if you are doing 30 runs in a row just hoping for the one best run ever that changes completly, at that point you may aswell say "whatever, everyone else just play perfectly, we try till our dancer has his god run".

However, even if performance on dancer was as consistent as it is on mch, which it is not, its still a fucked up thing to make a class effectivly suck for 99% of the playerbase so the top 1% doesn't "abuse" it, mind you the top 1% of raiders, not of all players. speedrunners going for top spots are a ridiculisly small sub group and there will allways be a "best" class, balancing around that is like draining the ocean while trying to get 2 perfectly equal cups of water, its futile AND stupid.