Best DPS class in the game?

[LastFantasy]

Im personally a Archer/Bard fan. The right skill chain set up with Archers makes them a DPS force to be reckoned with!

[OrganizationXIll]

I think PGL will have the highest possible DPS. If you can use it right and keep all of your buffs on, it can have up to a 30% damage boost and its speed increases too although I don't have any numbers yet.

[MudMonster]

Probably because there isn't a buff/debuff icon to let people know heavy thrust's 10% damage is applied. Also, in phase 4 I didn't see any damage difference when using a skill after HT or not. Example with arbitary numbers. Vorpal strike did 100 damage without use of HT and did 100 damage after a HT instead of 110 damage. Maybe I'm missing something with heavy thrust?

I had a buff icon for Heavy Thrust in Phase 4 and the damage increase was working for me. You have to be flanking to get it which means attacking from either of the target's sides, not it's rear.

[Technyze]

To many factors come into play here. How long is the fight and is there bard buffs? From what I tested in phase 3 though they are all pretty close in DPS, which to use will mostly be determined by that which has an advantage of each encounter.

[Tonitrui]

As a biased person, I think monk's with a perfected rotation will be the top, if not top 2 in damage. They also offer quite a bit of utility, like Mantra which is such a nice draw.

[MeldorQC]

Monk FTW !!!

[Puck]

No idea which has the most damage potential but imagine it differs per fight. Going pugilist just because it's really fun to play, but if early dungeons are any indicator it's going to struggle to keep up with ranged classes due to constantly having need of avoiding AOE.

[Ashkandi]

Gotta go with Archer/Bard due to the amount of DPS they can put out with the right cross class abilities of course.

[Riese]

I typed something extremely too long forgetting about the 1000 character limit. Anyway, here's the cliffnotes:

-ARC/BRD is DPS priority and support secondary now. Confirmed by the switch from CNJ to PGL as secondary job.

-As of P3, ARC was parsing highest DPS but all jobs were still missing a lot of abilities so it's unfair to say it will remain this way at 50, especially when some jobs were missing their combo skills (LNC with Full Thrust). Though ARC didn't get River of Blood which could keep them top. Also ARC can be 100% mobile and outside PBAoE's while PGL and LNC cannot.

-[Editted in] Also as of P3, PGL was out of TP while I as ARC still remained at 500+ due to their increased action speed. In addition, their damage per action was much lower. A lot to see later on though.

-ACN seems to have a great potential to be there if they can balance mana and keeping their dots up 100%.

-BLM is going to be interesting to see the rotation to balance Astral Fire and Umbral Ice in return with their other combo abilities (Fire to Fire III for example). It just seems like BLM is a lot of chances versus full potential like LNC or PGL. (ARC has a lot of chances too).

[Fyreus]

I think a Bard who sucks at/failed music class is the best dps.