Quote Originally Posted by enil View Post
I'm not sure what the the discussion re: specific dps numbers is for?
If you are trying to determine who is contributing most dps, you can't really ignore the fact that the BRD gains up to 8% dps from DRG's piercing debuff, which really makes the numbers you are throwing around moot.

Melee are good at single target, additional targets favour range dps with their low ramp up time, mechanics that favour multiple mobs and obviously because they are ranged - hence the shorter fights time more and more skew towards range since more time is spent on multi targets relatively.

There is an argument to be made about DRG AoE when supplied with infinite TP though, it's pretty good, would like to test it if we ran NIN.
Oh trust me I think DRG is worth the raid slot over MNK in T10-12, and arguably over a second NIN but we don't have a geared second NIN so we don't use it regardless. They are the best LB user, contribute literally 40 DPS or so extra every turn, and their damage is "fine." That said, on an individual level, DRG's gonna be on the lower end due to the LBing and a % of its expected DPS being tied up in BRD DPS (something which bugs me and my raid group, why NIN is doing MNK level DPS while contributing more than 100 extra raid DPS from TA in high DPS groups while DRG does less than MNK DPS and contributes only 30-50 DPS extra ...).

It's just strange to me there's this rebuttal that DRG isn't lowest DPS other than SMN or average BRDs who aren't doing well above 600 on a dummy with Disembowel applied. Would like to see similar situations to my group, that's all.