Let's redefine "damage taxes"

[Aurora428]

The reason we only have 2 melee DPS is because the party system gives a 1% buff for a caster and a ranged. If it wasn't there, I can guarantee you even on fights that has pinax and spread you would have 4 melee DPS and 2 would lose 1-2 GCDs. Because they'd still do a ton more DPS. But this was fixed this tier, there is no downtime because Melees play like Ranged Physical lol.

Regarding far towers on P5S. At worst you'd lose 1 GCD? You don't lose 10% DPS when you lose 1 GCD. Hitboxes are huge. Last tier was stupid because melee were too strong. This tier is exposing jsut how ridiculously unbalanced the game has became because they still buffed melee this tier.

An ideal proper meta would be melee/caster/ranged/flex. We don't have a flex, we have a second melee because of how broken they are lol. There is no hope right now for prog Black Mages and they'll instantly replaced SMN/RDM on speed clears. DNC is the best option because SAM is just ridiculously OP as a dancing partner.

I absolutely agree, but the comment I was responding to wanted to make roles based on how selfish the job is. That would be triple or quadra melee lol. (and require melee to be balanced with ranged anyways)

Trust me you are never going to see me advocating the ranged tax. I hated that crap since Shadowbringers.

It's not fun that 3 jobs were all in the garbage bin and now 3 more are. It's only going to get worse as more is added.

[Nutshell]

(and require melee to be balanced with ranged anyways)

No they wouldn't. They would just have to balance within roles if there were four roles to choose from.
They could take MCH, SAM, and BLM from their current groups and put them into a new one. Buff MCH to be around the same level as SAM and BLM and boom all balancing is basically done. People would still bring BRD or DNC even if MCH did 10% more dps because a pranged (which MCH wouldn't be part of the "pranged" role anymore) is required to get that necessary party buff.

I don't actually think they will do what I'm suggesting. It just seems like this is the best way to fix MCH. If they leave it as it is MCH basically has three options. Stay woefully irrelevant in the prange role, be over powered in the prange role, or change MCH into a Bard with a gun, which would just be another step towards homogeneity of dps classes.