Quote Originally Posted by Akiudo View Post
pretty sure he meant performance, not participation. it's clearly overrepresented but really, compared to some of the more extreme overrepresantations in the past this IS fine.
Im genuinely curious about this part, is this normal? In the current raid tier 3/4 dps slots seem hard locked for serious groups (rpr rdm bard), and right now 1 melee has more representation than 3 of them combined, which to me seems less than ideal, was it like this for example in stormblood when samurai just came out? Or in shb with the strongest class? I know back in the day there were weird things going on with raid buffs/debuffs where some classes had more sinergy, i am talking about recent years.

Coming over from wow i heard a lot of people saying the balance is better, but this seems pretty.. solved? Like all high end groups clearly agree that these 3 jobs are more valuable, i wouldnt say its good balance if all your composition building creativity is limited to the 4th slot. I can understand rdm because spammable instant cast rez is actually a unique upside which other classes dont have access to, in this thread we talked a lot about arcane crest but you cant even really quantify how good spammable rez on a dps is.
No clue about bard, and reaper does still have more utility than the other melees, even if it got nerfed its still more than 0 i guess.
Reaper's overall representation is a byproduct of a lot of things for sure, new, flashy, edgy fantasy, whatever, but i think the people going for world first dont care that much about that and just want the best shot at killing the boss fast

Patch notes were in a good direction, but maybe more changes were needed to shake up the rankings more? It would be cool to see more variety even at the top end.