Some views on DPS balance that everyone cares about

[Zerathor]

I could be all for this, but I hope you've made peace with the ramifications that will have on intra-caster balance. That is to say, there will no longer be any justification for red mage and summoner to not be doing black mage level dps.

Not the current status quo where rdm is 92% of a blm and smn is 95% of a blm (and only appears to outdps it on a certain site because of adds padding). They will be 100% blms, or conversely blm will be nerfed down to their level, and perhaps the entire caster role will be rebalanced around a lower ceiling like the ranged now.

Almost would have an actual point there, if a large portion of fights didn't involve adds or multiple targets. I know it must be a radical notion to assume balance should be considering the type of content that is normally produced, but give it a consideration. As it stands on the majority of fights, with players of the same level of skill, smn will out perform blm while still having access to a raise. Raise should be cut, and nothing else changes. That would be balanced enough. Blm can dominate a fight that isn't multi target, smn will dominate the fights that involve multi target and adds (which will likely be at least 2 fights in a tier).

Because like I said, some people don't actually want balance, they're just looking out for themselves.

Could not have described yourself better.

I agree with your previous point that this is a nice golden age of double caster, but that will inevitably change soon enough with some kind of range buff. And you know which of those 2 casters is going to stay relevant? The one that puts out more damage in most scenarios and has a raise. Mary Sue: the job.