Quote Originally Posted by Aurora428 View Post
Putting BLM, SAM and MCH into their own role is an extremely unnecessary change to the simple answer of Ranged just needing to deal more damage. (and doesn't even solve the problem because MCH would need to be viable in that role)
There's a few benefits to putting BLM, SAM, and MCH into their own 4th dps role.
MCH would just need be buffed to do around the same damage level as SAM and BLM if they made a 4th dps role for the selfish dps jobs. Much easier to do than to rework MCH.
RDM and SMN could keep their raises and not be taxed dps for them as they are no longer in the same dps role as BLM
Balancing for all jobs would actually get easier as each job would only have to be balanced to other jobs in the same dps role. The party buff would just have to be great enough to require people to take one of each dps role in high end content to clear. I still think it'd be better if the damage level between all dps roles is closer than it is now.

Plus they could make new dps roles and mix and match dps types to fill these new roles allowing for more unique job identities. NIN, DNC, and the next new dps job released could be their own dps group as an example. This would mean if you like what that dps role brings to the raid but only like playing as melee dps you'd still have an option.