Utility vs Raw DPS (Helpful vs Selfish)

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Calling pure DPS jobs selfish became popular on Heavensward, from back when raid utility was entirely busted and not having them was a huge detriment to the party. Offensive utility was a massive boost since most jobs had the same baseline personal damage so bringing jobs with party buffs just meant even more damage and some specific defensive tools were so strong that openned space for healers to keep their damage spells rolling.

Nowadays all the major tools you need to provide required support to the team is on your Role Actions meaning even the pure damage classes will bring those. While damage utility is high on demand for XIV because of damage rankings, its majorly well balanced to the point the gamebreakng utility skills are in reality the Job exclusives defensive ones like Veil, Shake it Off, Troubador. Currently a skilled BLM's raw damage can outdo many SMNs in some fights with high uptime.

Play what you have fun with, or what you're good at. At this exact moment in the game MCH and WHM are the only jobs behind the balancement curve of everyone else from their role for endgame content. Which is funny when you think about it because MCH is by no means a "selfish" job.