Why is everyone anxious about a PLD Rework?

[Melethron123]

There are a number of issues with the popular interpretation of aDPS as a 'measure of buff alignment' that should show you that it is incorrect. You should actually take a look at what you're measuring in the first place. It's not buff alignment. It's just raw dps with single target padding permanently discarded (and remember, the presence of a BRD in any run will skew those numbers because of how their buffs work). There are plenty of other ways that you can pad those numbers with raidwide buffs, so it's entirely composition dependent. It's pretty much worthless unless you're comparing two different runs with the same composition.

It's not hard to determine a significantly more useful parameter. All you need to do is publish the 'damage taken' under a given buff by percentile and compare like percentiles for different jobs. Then you can say a NIN benefits by X rDPS by virtue of having a GNB present instead of a PLD, or a NIN benefits Y rDPS by virtue of having a SAM present instead of a DRG. It's a much more effective method of analysis rather than looking at a parameter that is completely meaningless without knowing the composition in which it was generated in.

a SAM using their cooldowns with multiple raidbuffs active will deal more dmg than a SAM using their cooldowns with no raid buffs active, and that difference in damage comes from the bonuses they get from said buffs. so yeah, aDPS does measure buff alignment (and the same applies to every job out there)

DRK does 12% more dmg than WAR and PLD, despite their rDPS being very close to each other, because they can put more potency inside buff windows

and correct me if i'm wrong, but can't you see the party composition when you look at someone's log?

[Shurrikhan]

and correct me if i'm wrong, but can't you see the party composition when you look at someone's log?

You can, yes. Every individual log is part of a larger party-wide log, and records exactly dps how much they (and every other party member) received from each buff.