Quote Originally Posted by UkcsAlias View Post
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hell even the beginner jobs being less wanted can be countered with actual proper balancing as long as you don't do like whats happening with SMN RDM BLM where even an average BLM outdoes them both in rDPS. average damage should've been in favor for SMN and RDM since they have to rely on the party for alot of their rDPS and at optimal play BLM should be around 750-1kDPS more thats still a fair damage increase for the difficulty difference and it doesn't promote taking a BLM anyways for average play. since there's no reason to take an average SMN or RDM outside of maybe utility for prog which does have it's own value but should be seen as being part of the reason it's optimal DPS is still lower than BLM alongside the difficulty curve a utility tax as people would call it

in average non speed clears you'd still pick SMna dn RDM for their utility and they do still do more average rDPS than BLM. but if you wanted to optimize fights or have faith in your group/the BLM player. you can pick up BLM and get higher DPS while progging which could lead to a faster first clear. cause damage downs from rez sickness plays a bigger part than most people realize in the overall damage output of a fight