Quote Originally Posted by Dyvid View Post
That is odd, I would have thought they would have just made it a flat rate dps buff. Oversite perhaps?
I'd say it's more that single-caster meta is basically expected, and the devs didn't even think about the ramifications of having physical-only buffs when they removed magic-only buffs. Of those 2 jobs, 1 is already a caster, and the other one is monk, which, well, the devs basically don't even pay attention to monk as far as I can tell at this point, whereas the expected comp is 2 melee, 1 ranged, 1 caster for DPS, so the thought of running RDM with a BLM or SMN is basically unheard of to them.

It's bad design though to have an ability that innately favors 1 job over another. This is part of the reason why the meta in SB was basically Ninja Dragoon Bard Machinist, and was a driving force behind removing specialty damage buffs like piercing from Dragoon.