Quote Originally Posted by Supersnow845 View Post
Honestly there is no real reason why PCT needs to be weaker than BLM

It should be

PCT/BLM>>>RDM>>>>>>SMN

PCT’s only utility over BLM is tempra grassa (which is really good) but honestly BLM and PCT could share SGE/SCH’s balance. The one with the raid buffs pulls ahead in high end groups but the selfish one is better in lower end groups (ie PCT rDPS>BLM aDPS) because honestly at this point given what has to be shoved into its burst window it’s arguable PCT is the harder class now

It’s just too big of a gap, BLM is too weak and PCT is too strong
There is no world in which PCT is harder than BLM. Setting up your burst is very easy because you can do it at almost any point of your filler rotation. In fact, they made setting up BLM burst much worse- the moment you need to burn Triple/Xeno for movement, you're sacrificing burst. Try to setup a 4x Xenoglossy+Triple Flare Star and Despair with current BLM and tell me it's easier than Picto.
What you're saying, historically, has also never worked out. If the job that's easier and has a raid buff and has utility does the same damage, the selfish job is never picked. This is exactly what happened to HW MNK/BLM/SMN, SB SAM and BLM, ShB BLM until the very end (when they buffed it to do the most damage in the game)... even in EW, the SMN clear rates were more than twice RDM and BLM combined. And, in fact, raid buffs are so strong that the fastest clears tend to be SMN, not even BLM.
There's just no world in what you're proposing is ever going to work.