Balance

[Wyakin]

Reaper is just one example of a job that needs work. To those people who are blind, it did not get weaker no. It got left behind by over buffing the rest of the melees to a point that its being excluded from things like ultimate and log groups for being a "hinderance". I do not for one minute think its bad to play, reaper is amazing

To those machinists, I feel you. I played ranged DPS for 8 years and gave it up because I got sick of SEs inability to balance the job role.

For that one person saying RPR is 3% less than a ninja etc etc. At the 95% and above, ninja does 400+ DPS more than reaper currently. Thats the low end of the scale. I'm not a mathmatician but thats more than 3% gap.

[Dyvid]

Reaper is just one example of a job that needs work. To those people who are blind, it did not get weaker no. It got left behind by over buffing the rest of the melees to a point that its being excluded from things like ultimate and log groups for being a "hinderance". I do not for one minute think its bad to play, reaper is amazing

To those machinists, I feel you. I played ranged DPS for 8 years and gave it up because I got sick of SEs inability to balance the job role.

For that one person saying RPR is 3% less than a ninja etc etc. At the 95% and above, ninja does 400+ DPS more than reaper currently. Thats the low end of the scale. I'm not a mathmatician but thats more than 3% gap.

So you'll never ever have complete balance between 12 DPS classes, it's not going to happening. The best you can hope for is vary degrees of percentage. Now if RPR went from top to say, 15% to 20% drop then yea there is a big issue. However the data is showing 2%~3%. So exactly what percent are you looking for when alarm bells should be sounded? It's an honest question.

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Also lets not confuse balance with lazy job design or redesign I might say.

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I believe Job Roles need a redesign for balance more than individual jobs themselves. MCH is a fine example of this because Physical Range DPS has always buffed the party's DPS yet MCH doesn't. Caster should be design with high DPS output with the draw back of standing still, casting a spell and consuming mana yet SMN is nothing but instant cast and plays more like a PHY RNG DPS now.