If a BRD can dish out the same dps and AOE dps as a BLM then you can finally compare yourself to a BLM...
A BLM can't recovers everyone's MP and TP and also lowering magic defense, thus increasing magic DPS for the whole raid, preventing a debuff, you can't really compare yourself to BLM, I don't get it why BRD people still comparing themselves to BLM.