Quote Originally Posted by ForteNightshade View Post
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.
I don't see this brought up too often and fully agree.

Phys ranged and now to an extent, rez casters, have been on life support with that 1% buff for years now. If that band-aid buff didn't exist, you'd probably just bring 4 melee this tier because you're talking up to 3000 rdps over a caster/phys ranged comp. Having 5 jobs exist in raids only because of a 1% role buff and not their own contribution is awful design and a crutch that allows them to balance badly and get away with it.