To be honest, I'm more salty because they made a class that would be popular with all the weeaboos the big epeen class in a pandering sort of way. That being said I think samurai's dps is fine but there is a case to be made with the other melee dps.

Why are they all below the casters except samurai? RDM and SMN also provide pretty good utility in the form of embolden and devotion not to mention they both get raises and rdm has a nice heal. They are also fairly mobile compared to BLM and lack the positionals or fairly precarious play style of a melee dps which is typically why melee dps had the edge in damage.

I admit I'm fairly biased as a DRG because my dps is pretty much closer to the support dps despite my questionable damage utility. Nerfed disembowel for classes that are relatively low anyway and a tether that grants 5% to ONE person with a 16% uptime. Also the range is bad. And with all of this DRG still gets punished damage wise for losing its core mechanic which takes 70 seconds to generate the first time.

The thing is its clear to see what they were going for in terms of the classes dps vs their utility, but I think it was done incorrectly. The disparity between samurai/black mage and the others is gonna increase with gear and pretty much everyone is salty in one way or another at this time.