Quote Originally Posted by lulunami View Post
What does it mean to be balanced? Does balanced mean every job does the same damage? Maybe they want Monk and Black Mage to be the strongest DPS job by far?

In the older expansions, you are better off bringing another Bard or ranged DPS instead of Black Mage or Monk. Only the development team knows how much inequity they want in the game.

Certain jobs may be weaker than other jobs, but the severity of the gap is up to the developers. The gap between Dancer and Black Mage right now, for example, is relatively minor compared to a lot of class based games.
Might as well start downgrading jobs to limited status and restricting them from high end content entirely at that point if you're just willing to accept massive imbalances among DPS.