What even is the purpose of all those non melee/blm jobs?

[SleepyNeko]

I feel with the current state of the dps rankings, if they merged p.ranged 1% bonus with the caster 1% into just a "ranged 1%" then every group will just have 2 BLM and 2 melees. Even if its not 2 BLM it'll be a SMN or RDM + BLM because of the rez and Addle + Magicked Barrier.

[Shurrikhan]

I feel with the current state of the dps rankings, if they merged p.ranged 1% bonus with the caster 1% into just a "ranged 1%" then every group will just have 2 BLM and 2 melees. Even if its not 2 BLM it'll be a SMN or RDM + BLM because of the rez and Addle + Magicked Barrier.

Given that there are roughly even job counts to each side (6 casters and 5 melee) and there hasn't been any raid-affecting reason for the physical/magical split since Stormblood (in other ways, since HW), I wouldn't be against that...

...so long as they raised physical ranged practical rDPS parity (which has been noticeably hurt by modern encounters forcing little to no downtime onto melee and casters, the offset from which that parity was previously dependent on) and/or their practical utility value (no, raid damage buffs are not utility; they're just rDPS).