Quote Originally Posted by Kabooa View Post
No. An average player is going to perform less no matter what job they're on, but a low damage blackmage is worthless, where a low damage machinist can still manasong and hypercharge.
You're missing my point. Is the average player going to sync up their raid buffs in coordination with another player's buffs so that they stack consistently in a pug group? Probably not. If they don't coordinate like this, the benefit of having a meta comp decreases from when a coordinated group is using it. I didn't say there was no possible advantage for a pug. Secondly, the Blackmage's job is pure damage. Your point is a little unfair, because it assumes that the blackmage player is bad at their job's designated task while the MCH is at least half aware. Suppose the MCH forgets to hypercharge again after the first or second CD.

I've played with many Bards and MCH's who never use any mana/tp raid buffs in 24 mans while the healers casts multiple raises.