That's right, I said it!
Unfortunately I lost the parses, so you'll just have to trust my word. I meant to post this earlier, but I forgot.
A couple days ago I had a L66-67 PT at Magma Erucas in Mt. Zhayolm. The PT setup was PLD/WAR(me), THF/NIN(sub war you baboons!), SAM/WAR, BLM/WHM, BRD/WHM and SMN/WHM.
At first the SAM was outdamaging everybody else. We were pretty dynamic about SCs and we used three different ones:
1. Enpi > DE for Distortion
2. Swift Blade > Gekko for Darkness
3. When the SAM didn't have Meditate ready I would end the Enpi > DE chain with Swift Blade for Darkness.
The L66 SAM's gear was really good and my parser showed that he dealt roughly 31% of the total damage.
Then we invited a L67 DRG/WAR to replace the SAM who had to go. I got dissapointed when I noticed he was fighting in full AF, so I checked him and noticed his gear was horrible. He didn't even have a Life Belt and I'd estimate the total value of his gear was below 500k, perhaps a lot lower, I don't really check the prices of cheap crap. Luckily he was a competent player, though.
Anyway, I was surprised how well he was doing. We changed our SCs to Wheeling Thrust > Shark Bite for Light, but that got resisted a lot so we changed to Skewer > DE > Swift Blade instead.
When I then looked at my parser results the DRG + his wyvern averaged at about 32% total. Sure he was one level higher, but his gear was absolutely horrible while the SAM was very well geared. I think it's safe to say the DRG would have easily beaten the SAM if they both had spent the same ammount of gil on equipment even if they were on the same level.
This is interesting because SAM is considered to be one of the hot melees nowadays while DRG still has a very bad reputation.
Unfortunately I lost the parses, so you'll just have to trust my word. I meant to post this earlier, but I forgot.
A couple days ago I had a L66-67 PT at Magma Erucas in Mt. Zhayolm. The PT setup was PLD/WAR(me), THF/NIN(sub war you baboons!), SAM/WAR, BLM/WHM, BRD/WHM and SMN/WHM.
At first the SAM was outdamaging everybody else. We were pretty dynamic about SCs and we used three different ones:
1. Enpi > DE for Distortion
2. Swift Blade > Gekko for Darkness
3. When the SAM didn't have Meditate ready I would end the Enpi > DE chain with Swift Blade for Darkness.
The L66 SAM's gear was really good and my parser showed that he dealt roughly 31% of the total damage.
Then we invited a L67 DRG/WAR to replace the SAM who had to go. I got dissapointed when I noticed he was fighting in full AF, so I checked him and noticed his gear was horrible. He didn't even have a Life Belt and I'd estimate the total value of his gear was below 500k, perhaps a lot lower, I don't really check the prices of cheap crap. Luckily he was a competent player, though.
Anyway, I was surprised how well he was doing. We changed our SCs to Wheeling Thrust > Shark Bite for Light, but that got resisted a lot so we changed to Skewer > DE > Swift Blade instead.
When I then looked at my parser results the DRG + his wyvern averaged at about 32% total. Sure he was one level higher, but his gear was absolutely horrible while the SAM was very well geared. I think it's safe to say the DRG would have easily beaten the SAM if they both had spent the same ammount of gil on equipment even if they were on the same level.
This is interesting because SAM is considered to be one of the hot melees nowadays while DRG still has a very bad reputation.
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