Is Blm gonna be the only accepted range option now? :(

[Dogempire]

All you've managed to point out is that by having the best dps raid setup it would have carried your team through mechanics.As this is still the issue which caused your party to fail.If you'd doen the mechanics properly you wouldnt have hit the enrage.This is why i hate raid metas.I understand it for world first clears etc but at the end of the day these raids are supposed to be about player skill and not doing more dps so you dont have to learn mechanics properly.This mentality has gone on for way too long.
Also by this stage most people will have their deepshadow weapon and atleast a deepshadow chest which is a significant boost for the raids.At this stage there is no excuse for any raid party to be claiming they need only certain setups or cant clear without that set up.This just means they are bad.

Maybe I worded something weirdly in my original post weirdly but I feel like I'm missing something you're trying to say.

Regardless, my point is that a 40th percentile dragoon will contribute much more to killing the boss and getting the clear than a 40th percentile dancer or red mage with how imbalanced dps classes currently are, sure, any class is viable for clearing raids, but one requires more perfection in doing mechanics perfectly while keeping uptime and a good rotation while the other doesn't. If I decided I wanted to main something like dragoon or black mage for this savage tier we would have been able to clear before the enrage cast finished.

People want buffs for the worse classes so that we don't have to worry about how much our choice of class will put strain on others to perform more perfectly.

It's normal to see enrage timers while progging, and once you hit enrage there really isn't any more mechanics to be learned and done properly, just better execution of everything, however, I guarantee you the comp with double ranged won't be able to afford as many deaths or mistakes in general as one with double melee and a black mage for first clears.