BLM seems to have been left in the dust (and raise MUST BE removed on SMN/RDM)

[Zerathor]

Hm...why should a BLM deal more damage than a DPS' personal parse combined with their raid DPS contributions? Ideally they should be balanced. BLM Personal DPS = SMN Personal DPS + Raid Contribution DPS. If a BLM did more DPS than a utility DPS + their contributions, why take any form of utility? In a perfect situation they should be balanced, but they won't be and that is understandable. I've been noticing a lot of BLM lately demanding their personal DPS be the highest in the game, even higher than DPS with their contributions factored in, and it's just silly.
Yes. BLM is the highest personal DPS.
No. All other jobs aren't useless.

If smn didn't have raise, you would be correct. Raise is a utility that needs to come at a price. Even to have access to.

If total dps contribution between blm and smn were equal and you need one caster in your static, do you take caster with raise, or no raise? It's no contest, and why smn dominated blm the majority of SB up until alphascape