Patch 6.21 - DPS Roles & the State of Endgame Balance

[ForteNightshade]

I'll put this here instead of making a new thread, however someone on the discussion reddit has a fantastic write up going into the Caster balance and why the mobility and raise tax have become too aggressive. They also bring up Range DPS on the whole.

State of the Casters

For my own thoughts, the whole shift towards catering to melee DPS with enormous hitboxes and omni-directional bosses has all but killed what little justification they had for this massive DPS discrepancy. If they want to force—or at least encourage—a double Melee meta, then so be it. There shouldn't be this wipe a gap though. Far as I'm concerned, an entire role's existence shouldn't be dependent on an arbitrary 5% buff the devs slapped on in Shadowbringers to keep the Prange DPS alive. Nowadays, Red Mage and Summoner are clinging to that same buff for relevancy. Even Black Mage of all jobs would barely have any justification existing without it. That alone is absolutely ridiculous.