In the FFXIV world, lore-wise which job is the strongest if there was a tourney?

[Raiden_Ki]

Couldn't a BLM simply raise a shield and blow up the BRD/ARCH though? Or a ninja hide and trick attack. A dragoon jump on him.

[Mysterysword]

Couldn't a BLM simply raise a shield and blow up the BRD/ARCH though? Or a ninja hide and trick attack. A dragoon jump on him.

Well, a ninja apparently can't hide once someone is actively tracking them, dragoon jumps would be pretty easy to dodge since they only hit one spot, and as for BLM shields, that depends on how good the shield is. Arrows in real-life can punch through plate mail pretty easily, so can a BLM raise a shield that's stronger than metal armour?

But, admittedly, we know that at the very least, thaumaturges have the ability to completely lock down someone in one spot, which Mumuepo demonstrated in Halatali HM. Presumably, a BLM/THM that can pull that off would be pretty much unbeatable unless they were outnumbered.

Alphinaud has that diamond carbuncle which put regen field.

Moonstone Carbuncle, and I think the field was also meant to be some sort of barrier. It felt far less effective than he probably intended it to be, in that fight.