Quote Originally Posted by tearagion View Post
Who would bring the 8 DPS that aren't a part of the highest DPS composition in an optimized run? The second you get into the highest level of optimization there are 8 jobs that are instantly not worth it unless a certain job excels in the particular fight. Raise has always costed DPS (because it is an extremely useful tool to learn and recover) and they demonstrably balance around effort which BLM also needs to put significantly more of into high end content than RDM or SMN. Do I personally like Raise being a shackle for only 2 of the 3 casters? Not really, but it's logical to balance around it.
Well, that does bring the concern why Black Mage is so high up there compared to the other casters. What is it right now with melees? Higher is Monk at 9.5k and NIN is lowest at 9k. Samurai isn't even the top pure power melee. You'd have BLM doing 600 to 700 more than SMN/RDM? Sorry to say, but I'm pretty sure both jobs would rather not have raise and be up there with BLM x_x

Should BLM be stronger than SMN/RDM? Yeah but I,d say by 1% to 2% at best. Maybe 3% if you value raise that much.

The thing iwth optimized, speed runs and logs is people won't care about what you play if the difference is minimal. Right now, BLM is doing about 7% to 8% more than RDM/SMN. RDM is about 1% more than SMN which is pretty minimal if you ask me. If BLM wasn't there and you'd look only at RDM and SMN, people wouldn't care. But BLM being that high is absurd. BLM was already stronger than both RDM/SMN.

My question to you is, does raise is worth 7% to 8% more DPS?