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

[Zerathor]

DO NOT let the meta dissuade you from playing a job you find fun.

I cannot stress this enough, if you want to play MCH then keep playing MCH because you enjoy it, KEEP PLAYING IT. If your raid group can't comply with it and wants to keep their normal set, then you'll just have to work harder and improve yourself through practice to cover that gap.

The only reason people are shifting to BLM is that they can meet the same damage numbers a high lvl BRD/MCH can reach doing much lower level gameplay. I believe (please correct me if I'm wrong) it was stated a 50%tile BLM can meet the same as a 75-80%tile MCH in terms of dps.

Pretty much this. It's always better to be on a job you know well than to jump to another job for what it can potentially do. Unless you plan to really practice that new job. We're several weeks into the tier, even if people haven't been in savage yet the 460 gear everyone should have been buying is more than enough for any comp to cruise through e1-4s atm.

What use does Summoner have when it gets utterly demolished despite rDPS purposely accounting for both jobs' overall contributions?

Raise. And people still don't understand the amount of comfort a dps raise gives for how many dumb mistakes it'll let you get away with. Hell, we had 8 deaths on a titan reclear because we were messing around too much the other week, and brought someone new to the group. There's no way in hell we would have cleared that without a caster raise.