When will BLM be buffed?

[Shurrikhan]

So by this we can see that, assuming equally geared and played by equally skilled players, MNK and BLM should have top possible DPS while BRD should be lowest.

DRG have access to the 2nd highest defensive gear in the game next to tanks, it's only logical that they should have a lower DPS output than MNK. SMN have higher mobility than BLM, so it's only logical they should have a lower DPS output than BLM.

However, no one is going to tank with a 2nd highest defensive gear tank with only 3 minor defensive CDs to his name (outside of the occasional Garuda EM party using a Lancer for a brief time). On the other hand, Manawall can allow the BLM to even ignore entire mechanics at times, or else survive what would be sure death to another job, such as bad spits in T6 and even 2 out of 3 (or 6) Divebombs in T5. Apocatastasis (or whatever it's called) can prevent low players from dying to Fireball...
Heck, the first time I saw Hydra solo-tanked, back when we were primarily wearing AF or mixed Darklight / AK gear, it was because our dps was mostly BLMs. We would simply swap in via Aetheric Manipulation and Manawall Triumverate, move out for Dissever, and then back in for the next Trium on rotation whenever the tank or healers ran out of CDs and started hitting sound effects. In Leviathan, you can avoid being slid down the boat by just AMing to another player, or, as long as the rails are still up, negate the blow of a sea serpent landing on you no problem. Whether you choose to call that mobility, utility, or defense, it's still significant. Not as much as instant rezzes, perhaps, but it's still pretty damn good.

And even if this scale were both accurate and the criteria for job scaling, would you really want to have a job that kicks ass only in turret situations? Half the "risk" in any job is simply having to do what you're not niched for. And yet there's no way that a non-turret situation, risk-for-reward, would help (what is presently) a turret-class. ...I'd really like to have them just bring these 'ratings' closer, rather than lining them up according to what they lack.