FFXIV and Job Identity

[ETermin]

How would they buff DNC without it out shining BRD? I have seen some high end parties use a DNC over a BRD since bard buffs is tied to the party and a DNC can buff a low dps dealing job to increase its DPS to a better level.

Song chains is a buff directly to songs and to BRD dps.

Ideally the end result would be something like this.

Dancer
Low pDPS + High rDPS

BRD
med pDPS + med rDPS

MCH
high pDPS - no rDPS

All within 500 combined dps of each other. If we are going with debuffs being added back in,

Dnc - slashing
Brd - piercing
Mch - blunt

Each having an advantage in certain compositions.

[Carighan]

Song chains is a buff directly to songs and to BRD dps.

Ideally the end result would be something like this.

Dancer
Low pDPS + High rDPS

BRD
med pDPS + med rDPS

MCH
high pDPS - no rDPS

All within 500 combined dps of each other.

Congratulations, developer ETermin. You have been assigned the prestigious position of "Criterion Savage vs Ultimate" balance dev. Please clarify your previous ideas before your first dev planning meetings coming up in 2 hours.

(that is, if one could just do what you assume possible there, we wouldn't have 80%++ of the balance issues any MMORPG has, ever - it's entirely utopian however, it cannot be done or at least we have to assume that since nobody has so far managed in ~30 years of graphical MMO games)