Reaper needs additional buffs.

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What I don't understand since endwalker is why they prefer to buff rather than nerf, the balance at 6.0 was better than currently except that the reaper was a little bit too strong, buffing absolutely all the melee they have created a bigger gap with the other jobs which have not been adjusted accordingly,
whereas if they had just slightly nerfed what was too strong at the time and slightly reassembled what was bad, it wouldn't be there.

by massively buffing other melee it's equivalent to a reaper nerf, and destroys the balance of other roles that have not had adjustments,
it's the first extension where there are practically no nerfs, I don't understand why they are so afraid of nerfs when they often did before.

Simple : They don't like to nerf. I heard them say it in a liveletter, i'm pretty sure of that.

It's okay to buff classes, absolutely nothing wrong with that, but this must be done through careful calculation and serious test beforehand.

Nerfing a class may deserves it in a greater way than buffing others. If you nerf a class, but you do it too much, this class will not be able to clear savage anymore. It's just a exemple of course, but imagine that :

What if you nerf the monk, and you estimate that the nerf was 3% but it's 10% en reality ? Monk will then take the place that MCH has today and will not be able to clear the Week 1 Savage tier. (Again, that's just an exemple, no way this is going to happen)

In the opposite, if you tune up classes, but again fail on your calculation, you may overbuff them, like they did with the 4 melee, allowing every single one of them to go above the reaper.

What dev seems to overlook is this.

SAM, BLM and MCH share something in common : Selfishness.

What happen if you buff one of those three class ? They hit harder, of course, but the consequence behind that are much more impactful than what you think.

Now what if I say to you : The SAM is buffed by 10% and become first DPS.

I see two other classes already rubbing their hands : DNC and BRD.

Believe it or not, but if you buff a Selfish class, or any class, you automatically buff indirectly DNC and BRD (Or any other class that can buff). It's logical. The more you buff a class that DNC/BRD can count on, the more rDPS they will have. So buffing classes always benefit those two greatly and by a significant margin. DNC will always target the biggest DPS in the party, so if this class is buffed, is 100% beneficial for them.

That's why MCH need a massive boost, because he takes a spot used by BRD/DNC who have a Great offensive Utility