Quote Originally Posted by XanderOlivieri View Post
Also SE sees both Magic and Ranged DPS as the same thing so based on SE's standards we have 3 Ranged DPS.
No, they don't. DPS is divided into 3 categories: ranged (BRD), caster (BLM, SMN), and melee (MNK, DRG). You can tell by looking at the limit breaks: BRD shares its LB with healers, not with casters. Even if you want to talk "role", SE only sees DPS, which means that it lumps melee with magic and ranged. As such, there's never a case where you have Magic and Ranged considered together without the inclusion of Melee.

No matter how you look at it, an imbalance of character class types will exist, so honestly there is no way to balance out what we have right now, at least not with adding only 1 class/job at a time. If we were to get a large expansion with a few classes/Jobs these are possible to balance, but a patch addition possibly not.
Except that the devs don't have to fix the ratio all in one swoop. It's perfect fine to attempt the fix in increments (e.g. adding a new healer, then a new tank, then a new ranged DPS).