it's still a utility, like apocastasie...without forget the fact that blm have lucid dream that wipe them hate, when no melee (outside the dragoon have this chance) even the ninja with his tool for control aggro can simply give the aggro of the next attack he will do.

people seems to forget a lot of the toolkit and simply want them main to be the strongest, i will repeat it, blm mustn't be at the same level than the melee... a lot of fight force the melee to loose dps, not a lot of them allows a uptime decent. without forget the fact that you have a better visibility of the fight from ranged what the melee can't really have....

anyway, it's a pointless talk, Yoshida have talk age ago about the balance and said that ranged will never be the best dps.

finally a very very very important point.... in the final fantasy series, the best dps.... is the summoner, the only one that can wipe a whole group in one attack, not the black mage that simply the caster dps that have a good versatibility because of the weakness of the enemy. often it's not even the best jobs for get a max of damage dealt in the group.... just saying.