Quote Originally Posted by Myon88 View Post
I wouldn't be so sure about that, in Stormblood raid buffs were certainly not in the '20-30% range' of making up support jobs' total damage contributions, and the metagame was still far more healthy than it is now. Balance is something you can tune at both ends too, it doesn't have to be about tweaking support jobs solely until their buffs are way out of proportion with their personal damage. Just give them more personal damage, or you could just leave them as whatever, and nerf the personal damage of the selfish jobs directly instead.

Raiddps, by virtue of its name, is something that is tied to the performance of your raid members after all. If every support is doing 'black mage levels of contribution', that's only because there's a black mage (or samurai) in the party to synergize with them in the first place. Swap that blm for another dancer or bard and suddenly your supportive buffs are yielding far less extra dps than in the hands of a blm, so I don't think black mages would be obsolete at all.
Lets say Summoner brings 500 damage bonus from Devotion. If we equalize the RDPS of Summoner to Black mage (we'll use an arbitrary 15,000), then Summoner must have 14,500 Personal DPS.

We'll say Devilment and Standard Finish is 10% just to round it off. That's 1500 for your Black Mage.

That's 1450 for your Summoner.

But wait, you're saying that RDPS benefits should be -greater- than what a PDPS based job can bring. So lets just amp Devotion a bit. Lets say in a team of like minded and able individuals, RDPS from Devotion is worth 1000.

That means Black Mage is 15,000 and Summoner is 15,500.

Why bring the Black Mage?

Consider further we apply this to Machinist.

Machinist is just a PDPS class so it should just be equal to Black mage. 15,000.

Why bring the Black Mage?

Bard is job like summoner, so 14,500 + 1000.

Why bring the Black Mage and Machinist?

Ninja. 14,5000 + 1000

Why bring the Black Mage, Machinist, or Samurai?