Leveling/playing DPS is actively punished

[Colt47]

Think the issue they have right now is that tanks and healers are needed so much more than DPS, the people who do play tanks and healers have leveled every single tank and healer to 90 already. I'm an omni-tank and it's all thanks to instant queues and riding on free bonus gil while laughing all my way to 90, and it's approx the same thing with healers.

The only point where I feel DPS even have a presence in determining an outcome in this game is at true end game content with enrage timers, otherwise they are worthless wisps that wander about without any sense of purpose except to get annoyed by how they die due to having paper thin armor. Not that I blame Black Mages for dying at lower levels since they don't even get triple cast until well into the level progression.

Every single dps, even ones that parse pink, are worthless. They have no mechanical function at all in the game that makes them useful except to reach arbitrary dps checks. They can't even heal anyone, they die from three to four hits on a GOOD day, they waste tens of thousands of gil on "name your main stat" tinctures being churned out by millionaire crafters and put themselves into poverty, and somehow the magic dps and melee dps aren't dead yet from a diet of sweet rolls and cheese burgers, which also cost a lot of gil and are manufactured by millionaire crafters. The only purpose worthless DPS scum have is to be a poor, destitute beggar that feed the financial appetites of alchemists and culinarians, with a once in a blue moon craft-a-thon gear making spree leading to fortunes for the other crafters, who are also living similarly useless lives except they can at least cling to the fact they make glamour items.