Why give the ability to lockout classes for Raids?

[Kabooa]

No, not potential. BLM are the highest parsing DPSers. FF Logs provides statistical proof of this.

Yes, and most players -fail to live up to that potential-

[Eli85]

Yes, and most players -fail to live up to that potential-

We're not talking about individual players. We're talking about the job itself. The job, based on the data from all five fights in Sigmascape savage, is the top DPSer. End.

It's because you read them wrong.

On o5s smn parse higher on any performance level . On o7s it's only by the 80th percentile of performance that blm output a smn. On kefka it's by 95th percentile. BLM parse higher on o6s and godkefka. And I'm not even taking in account the devotion raid buff and the radiant shield which easily increase the raid dps by 250.

So yes, they've the potential but obviously only a few succeed to reach it. Because otherwise blm would out dps smn on any performance level which is obviously not the case.

99th percentile, all bosses Sigmascape savage. BLM is #1.

Next.

[EllieShadeflare]

High skill floor? High skill ceiling? What are those?

You're blindly ignoring people when they've explained a possible reason why they might ignore BLM. It's a sad but correct reason, but you don't want to listen.

[Sawamura]

Find some 4-8 friends and do content together in FC or LS.