Quote Originally Posted by Thunda_Cat_SMASH View Post
SAM specializes purely in dealing personal damage. All other dps jobs have some raid wide utility that increases the raids dps, and thus their own dps contribution. SAM being any weaker than it is means that it's the new 2.X DRG, and a significant loss to take over rather jobs, rather than a negligible loss.
Black mage is the only job without raid wide utility. SAM is a close second with Slashing debuff since two other jobs also have slashing.