Having played a bit of SAM, but having DRG as my current main, I would like to make a comment on this. Sure, SAM has incredible DPS, but that doesn't make the other DD classes useless. If I were in a 4 man run and had SAM as the second DD, I could realistically buff SAM even further damage wise, while also dishing out my own (See Battle Litany and Dragon Sight). I say this because at the moment Dragon Sight is one of those buffs that is hard to maintain for numerous reasons. So having another melee DD always nearby my target is immensely beneficial to me. That goes the same for any other melee class yes, but if SAM can top out the DD, SAM is going to be my preferred chained ally. My only gripe with these changes to DRG is that it's difficult to weave all these buffs in while maintaining BOTD, but that's a matter of me not waiting for it to come off CD as a backup to maintain it before applying buffs.