Quote Originally Posted by Marianno View Post
Phone edit: before anyone says slashing debuff is something, NIN already covers that and most people will also have a WAR in the group. Both SAM and BLM should be top DPS and competing with each other but this does not seem to be the case for the most part. Again, these are just my opinions.
Not every group does have that, though. Initially my static group was running PLD/DRK as tanks and my co-melee DPS was DRG. So when we were initially progressing and I was playing SAM, I was the sole source of slashing debuff. I don't think it's something that can be entirely hand waved away. Yes, it's minor, and it's something that is doubled over from two other jobs, but it exists all the same.

Unless, of course, we're not going to count that as utility on ANY job, but that's often not how I see WAR and NIN described.