Why give the ability to lockout classes for Raids?

[EllieShadeflare]

This community is really quite odd, isn't it? I can't think of any other game where the community routinely does not want the #1 parsing DPSer in their groups. It's mind boggling. All you can really do is be persistent or start your own groups. Perhaps one day the community will drop this ridiculous mindset.

People are addicted to contributions, rather than the actual damage at the end.

[Alistaire]

People are addicted to contributions, rather than the actual damage at the end.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

In the end it's simple, if BLM has highest personal dps yet doesn't contribute as much of a combined personal+boosted raid dps to end up on top with that considered, they're not the best job to take.

Or to make it even simpler, just roundabout numbers, say a BLM has 5000 dps but a SMN has 4500 while boosting the dps of the rest of the party by 1000 (combined between the 7 people, not 1000 each), it should be pretty easy to figure out who wins.