I have recently brushed the mothballs off SAM now that I've gotten bored with blowing up the (alternate) universe with VSmite and decided I don't want to go to the trouble of making an Ukon.
As I run around busting totally sweet Gekkos on to what counts as a face for worms with my awesome TP Bonus Keitonotachi and +1 Unkai, a few things have occurred to me.
1) SAM is indeed nowhere near as powerful relative to other jobs inside Abyssea as it is outside.
2) This does not matter, because it is still way, way more powerful inside Abyssea than I could ever possibly need it to be.
I know this isn't news to anyone, but I feel there may be some value in generally agreeing that talking about who has the highest DD output in Abyssea is pretty pointless now, even if we grant the extremely dubious assumption that there was ever a point in talking about it when even a non-Emp DRK with appropriate atmas was perfectly capable of wrecking things in a way that defies any sort of comparison with FFXI at 75. It's white noise that detracts attention from DDs that might actually need help, which is the closest thing we're going to have to worthwhile discussion here.
Therefore, I propose a unified response to all points Abyssea: "SRRaGTS", or, "Set Razed Ruins and Go To Sleep". Thank you.