Anyone else think caster has suffered this expansion? (hopes for the future)

[Turtledeluxe]

As a Blm since ARR launch, being a caster has rarely felt so unrewarding as of now. We need to put in a lot more work than melee to not even be able to keep up with them dps wise. We have positioning issues, uptime issues, lack of mobility, yet melee out-dps us without even trying.
Unpopular opinion, but Blm should do more dps than melee. Blm has zero utility, which was always used as an excuse for its high dmg, but we don't do any more atm. We traded high numbers against being able to move at will and against having anything to help the party (what little we had was taken from us). That was not a problem, cause what we brought was killing the boss faster, but since we don't atm, the only reason to even bring a caster these days is the 1% buff and a tad faster lb build up.

Old post but QFT. Being a BLM now feels mostly pointless, even when you know what you're doing. I used to see jokes it was punishing but like really, it is.

To the people that mourn summoner, welcome to what they did to MCH for ShB. Even though old SMN wasn't especially hard either, more like fighting against your pets...

To the people that mourn the state of casters (bar BLM), welcome to what rphys has been since ShB.

Let's unite casters, and break free of our second rate dps job chains.

I don't think a class like Bard should competing with a BLM. Maybe a RDM, but not BLM.

SE really needs to decide if roles mean something or not. They have this attitude about glam but it seems like with classes damage is just becoming an all inclusive thing. Certain roles should be top DPS, easily, and the roles that aren't should be bringing something else to the table. Or the alternative is just let every class do similar DPS but also ensure they all have decent utility in some way, so that way people can play the one they like style and gameplay wise.