PLD dps needs to be buffed, current dps a joke

[RapBreon]

The only way you can make healers run out of mana is if you have the DPS keep dying so the healers keep raising. Or the DPS keep getting hit by AoE and not dying but the healers keep spamming AoE heals. Both of which are "unnecessary".

The only way DPS will run out of TP in an actual fight is going into T8.

BRDs and MCHs will almost NEVER spend their MP on anything other than Foe's if the party knows what they're doing. So yeah, BRD and MCH are not "support" classes, but rather full fledged DPS with a support option.

Again, just having 1 or 2 "support" abilities doesn't pigeonhole the class into a role that doesn't exist in this game.

My healers must suck then when they scream for mana and our BRD lock-steps into that promotion (on proof-reading this sentence seems pointless). The absolute optimal performance is impossible for the majority of progression even for gods among men (which we are not...hahaha we are so not). I mean shit, even on non-extraneous damage being taken our healers still need a promo on A2.

You're being woefully reductionist on the number of support skills; the important part is what they do. Quant vs. Qual (wo)man.

Technically MCHs have like 40289218042 support skills, but most of them are fairly useless and/or negligible (though rend mind did save a tank once, I was like :O). Kind of like the SMNs ya know

Edit: As to your edit. I wasn't contesting that point, I agree with it. However, the links you drew between the DPS and that point weren't compelling.