you take my word out of context, i have said that dragoon need to be looked at, i have said that smn and mch too... all i have said is blm don't need this much attention and must'nt be at the same level than sam...

why? simple.... if blm can deal as much damage than sam...why bring a ninja, monk, smn, mch, drg, rdm and even sam... it safer to bring a bard and 3 blm
they will dish enough dps for destroy the content with little risk involved to them.... ahh wait... it did happend in the past.... start of ARR, garuda extrem group full ranged, ifrit extrem.... full of ranged... that why the ranged are behind the melee and they are not even far behind that the most amazing... in terms of dps (if we believe fflogs number) the max dps of the blm is almost identical to the one of the monk... the difference of dps average between the monk and the blm is about 250 dps.... the difference with the rdm is about 120 dps...... on 3000+ means the difference with the second best melee dps is about less of 10%

now mark my word, i do feel a few skill of the rdm are too powerfull and need a reduction of potency mostly the oGCD skill that are free skill that dish tons of damage instantly. however the fact that rdm is infront of the blm is tie to the fact that his burst is a melee burst. and even like this the difference of dps is about 120 dps in average and 12-13 dps in max....

however i don't feel is right for the dragoon to be soo low in damage because if we look at the max damage of the dragoon is... almost at the same level of the mch that too need a big boost since it don't have as much boost for the party than the bard...

in my eyes, the rdm must be at the same level than blm and smn must be really close, while the dragoon must be higher than what he is right now. for the sam... honestly i don't know it's one of the jobs that have a very highs skill cap and heavy setup for be able to get the max dps... in terms of difficulty is far higher than ninja since the less moment you can't dps mess up your whole cycle to the point to almost force a reboot of it. but that what make it interesting to play, do it need to be nerfed? i'm not sure, if that happend it will be his death. people will simply say to bring a ninja that will be more interesting or if like some expect a dragoon if the debuff is buffed. leading to a situation we had before the end of HW, where monk was not bring because his lack of...utility. note it's still better than not bring even in dungeon because deemed useless (*bad memory of the V1*)

all i say it's balance is not as simple than say this jobs must be infront... boost the bard and machinist too much and people will fall back into the drg/brd/mch combo pushing outside the other jobs. anyway, all we can do for now is wait the live letter or the patch note for see what they have decided. nerf or buff we will have no real word into it.

like when some jobs have stay subpar for months before see the light.