Let's redefine "damage taxes"

[Mithron]

Problem is when your farming DPS becomes really a less factor as everyone already likely has better gear, So at that point whats the point of even bringing black mage, like seriously, No one is going to care that black Mage does "1% more" then the other casters during a farm groups, this seriously makes no sense to me.

Because 1% is something people care about due to it being faster clears and BLM is a playstyle people enjoy. You also won't need those raises nearly as much since you aren't progging and are better geared, so what's the point of taking less DPS for a raise you rarely and ideally never use?

[Rithy255]

Because 1% is something people care about due to it being faster clears and BLM is a playstyle people enjoy. You also won't need those raises nearly as much since you aren't progging and are better geared, so what's the point of taking less DPS for a raise you rarely and ideally never use?

No one cares about saving 10 seconds on a reclear/farm, when we talk about balancing Ideally the aim is to balance stuff for first clears and around low gear, The reason why you'd want a "higher damage" job in the first place is to avoid 1. Enrage 2. making up for "bad performance", Making it so BLM has no use in progression and their one niche is to make some reclears "slightly faster" when bringing a rdm/smn still would likely be a better idea just incase lol, Makes no sense it's baffling how useless it would be.