I’ve posted about this several times, but caster suffers from the sub category dilemma. Meaning we have two types of casters. We have two casters who are balanced around utility that does not contribute to damage (summoner and red mage having Rez), and then we have a “selfish caster” black mage.

This is not the same as melee with SAM being the selfish DPS and the others having utility. The reason being, melee DPS are all supposed to be balanced around their personal DPS plus the extra DPS their buffs provide.

A summoner or a red mage also provide damage, but their damage plus their damage boosting utility does not equal the damage of a black mage.

They pay a Rez tax.