Quote Originally Posted by abesut View Post
My BLM friend roflstomps me in dmg, he casts Flare instead of the last Fire III. This is his rotation: Blizzard III (until 3 stacks)->Transpose->Fire III->Flare->transpose. Repeat. He kills EVERYTHING while leaving me in the dust, TRYING to catch up :P its not uncommon that his flare hits for 1k either >_> he even laughed when Ifrit-egi unleashed his almighty Inferno which did so little dmg compared to his Flare ._. Sad panda
Right and don't forget that WHM has Holy with a 240p + stun. I feel sad when a WHM can clear trash mobs faster than me ='(

Stop comparing classes with "how fast he kills trash mobs compared to me". While nuking trash mobs into the ground is fun, it's mostly trivial content and shouldn't be used as precedence.

That said, numbers aren't really that well known at this time, so it's mostly all speculation/theorycraft right now and nothing empirical. As it stands, it's mostly obvious stuff. BLM has more burst, SMN has more reliable sustained DPS. This is something you should accept as a DoT class.

Also, you might want to tell your BLM friend to carefully read the tooltips on Fire/Blizzard III, especially the part regarding Umbral/Astral stacks, because his rotation is bad. There's a very important mechanic change from the I/II level spells, to the III level.