Quote Originally Posted by Turtledeluxe View Post
1. What's the point of stating this when it's obvious that someone should consider things carefully before saying them?

2. You are confused. It matters how players feel about the class, whether they are the class or not. And BLM looks and feels redundant given that it does good damage under very specific conditions and depending on player expertise. That's why the thread exists, and you cannot form an answer to it except "well aDPS..."
1. Because people do not, plain and simple, especially when it comes to comparing different jobs DPS values.

2. No, how you feel playing the job does not count. That is a purely subjective view which you are using to try and make an objective point. The whole topic started with the premise that other DPS jobs do the same or more DPS than BLM, which goes into the point I make that you cannot compare DPS disparity based solely on rDPS alone, which is what I suspect the OP done. That is the only reason for my post and the only reason why I even made the first post in the topic as I wanted to see if they based their premise on faulty reasoning.

If you notice, I have made no mention on the state of BLM or any job at all. All I have done is stated, you cannot reliably compare 2 DPS if they have different functions (selfish/buffer) with each other showing an example where results can be skewed one way or another. I do not care if people want to make BLM stronger or weaker, add more utility or whatever, I just wanted to put the point across that you have to look at more than just rDPS to make job comparisons when you want to say one is underperforming compared to the rest.