I'm still thinking we should have a fourth role to shove our selfish DPS into.

With nothing else accounted for, that lets you have everyone on the same starting line with a fatter full house attribute bonus.

Then you could balance the machinist, black mage, and samurai against each other, which is less of a hassle than doing it with everyone else, and then balance the others against the rest in their category.

A more grand reorganizing might also do some good, but for a starting baseline, it solves a few things.