5.08 Patch - DPS still not balanced.

[Dogempire]

Not really. Ideally you have 2 melee, a physical ranged and a caster so that you at least get the full party bonus. Telling your caster to be anything other than a caster, in this situation, is detrimental to the rest of the party by way of flat damage loss. Furthermore, unless you're such a hardcore elitist that relationships mean jack shit, if the caster you've run with 2 years decides to go RDM instead of SMN (because SMN has mostly been a dumpster fire this expac), who are you to force them to play BLM instead? What if it's not even leveled because they never liked the job to begin with? You're going to what, kick that person you've been raiding with for 2 years because they don't want to play as a chad BLM so you can bask in the glory of 1000 extra raid dps? Get real bruh. We did just fine with RDM, we absolutely smashed minimum damage requirements. If you can't do it with a RDM then you got bigger problems that have nothing to do with how RDM performs or it's contributions (about 800 dps in our physical heavy comp) to the raid group.

And a final point, RDM is never the catered-to job. It is usually always one of the caterers. For example, RDM doesn't get much benefit out of Brotherhood. They would get more out of Trick, but who's running Ninja these days, how many groups are feeding cards to their RDM? Nobody lol. Meanwhile the 3 top jobs you're referring to get fed in nearly every group. I don't mind comparing apples to oranges but at least recognize which is which.

Uhm, dude, we literally have a red mage, a dancer, and a machinist in my group, literally 3 of the bottom of the barrel dps jobs, not to mention that we have an AST as one of our healers, I don't care if they play what they want instead of one of the more overtuned jobs. You seem to have some problems judging by your post and I hope you can work through them.

My point is that it would be much easier to beat dps requirements if the jobs were, you know, balanced? Like, 80th percentile machinist isn't equivalent to a 40th percentile monk?

Also buffing black mages with your own raid buffs only increases your own rdps and therefore your parse percentile, not the other way around.