What about when a Black Mage's pDPS jumps to 14000 because that same DNC pulling... whatever... joined? That 8700 just becomes 10700... not even accounting for Technical Step - that's just Closed Position + Standard Step.

Supports always hide their true additions by padding the numbers of other people. It is why parses are unreliable, well... at the top end... because there are ways to cheat them and show numbers in "fixed" scenarios (super buffing one guy so he can get his 99.9 percentile for the "lols").

I feel my personal damage contribution as Dancer was a bit low, but our Black Mage loved having me around, and not one person from my team said: gosh, if only we had something that wasn't this crappy dancer. May change in Savage tier, but time will tell.

Welcome to the world of support Should see the damage numbers FFXI bards do...