Quote Originally Posted by Seraphor View Post
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Also, one must not forget that Bard and Dancer heavily rely on the team for their rDPS.

See below : This is the rDPS (In value, not score, because you can't quantify with score) for anything in the 95 Percentile



As you can see, Dancer is around 250 rDPS above the MCH, while BRD is only 110 rDPS Above it.

And now, let's see nDPS (nDPS is the DPS output you have WITHOUT any external buff. It will only counts what you can do on your own.)



As you can see here, MCH is above BRD and DNC by more than 1.300 DPS.

With all of this value we can easily say this :

MCH can bring a DPS far superior than DNC and BRD on his own. (In under normal circonstance, He will replace DNC/BRD because of the ranged slot)

DNC/BRD Heavily rely on the team. If the team isn't good, they won't be either. (People who dies constantly, who don't do their rotation correctly, who don't keep uptime, etc etc... Many factor goes into account)


As for the question : Do machinist need a buff ?

Yes, I think that MCH need a slight buff. 250 rDPS means 150.000 pts of Damage over a 10 minute fight.... BUT that's only if all parameters and every character in the team is "Equal".

Why is that ? Can you compare the rDPS of a DNC linked to a SAM with a 615 Weapon, against the same DNC but with a SAM with a 635 weapon ?

No you can't !

As for now, Those value are done into the 95 Percentile and may not reflect the final rDPS reached by those class because of their stuff. Some may not have their iLvl 635 weapon, not full 630 armor, etc etc... And this will affect DNC and BRD tremendously because if the MCH don't have his full 630 stuff but the team of the DNC/BRD has, those value don't mean anything and will be biased.

the "Percentile" don't take into account the ilvl of the person. It's not something you want to use as a miracle database.