I should elaborate more, This game seems have subcategories for the roles with tanks being a bit more weird in this regard so I’ll leave them out
No Utility: BLM SAM MCH WHM
These 4 have no utility and while they should be stronger overall, they shouldn’t work well together(not including WHM) parties shouldn’t want to run a comp of SAM BLM and MCH because that puts the synergy dps into a situation where they are near pointless as such, it really should be 1 to a raid to increase the benefits of select synergy dps.
Mid Utility: MNK DRG BRD SMN and SCH
Though it pains me to put BRD here, this is where it has to go, these jobs bring higher ADPS but mediocre pdps to justify their place, in some compositions you may prefer them over the No utility jobs but their utility should be more limited i.e brotherhood or weaker I.e Devotion. Defensive utility is best on this type of dps
High Utility DNC RDM AST NIN
These jobs should be the lowest of their respective roles but not weaker than them do to their contribution and they should have MUCH higher rdps contribution. At least 1500 on average to make up for their disparities with SMN and RDM probably being more or less the same with a slight edge for SMN. Defensive utility shouldn’t be taxed too highly here as they’ve been taxed hard enough for having higher offensive utility. At least 1 or 2 of these should be desired in parties for the damage the provide to the entire raid. (Embolden NEEDS to work with casters and healers for rdm to want to be in a party with them)
Ideal compositions should look like these
SAM DRG RDM DNC
BLM NIN RDM BRD
MCH DRG DNC SMN
All 3 types are represented as effectively as they should be, while this might not be perfect, this is the template for how I would strive to achieve better balance, even if we need to change the way some abilities work to do it. 1 Personal, 1-2 Mid 1-2 High Util
The current obstacle SE faces is that there isn’t any countermeasures from sticking the highest dps dealing jobs on the Sam team and blowing the other compositions out of the water

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