Quote Originally Posted by Mysticunicycle View Post
No. It doesn't matter if you do the number with your own hands, or if your magic number make-go-bigger makes somebody else do the number. The number is still your number. If your number from other players + your own number is still smaller than the number of another job that does all of its number on its own (sam, blm, mch), then there is no reason to ever play a buffing job.
Your number +7 others benefiting from a buff vs a single dps giving no buff to the raid and can only contribute with their dps....RPR competing and in some fights outright beating SAM while also having a raid wide heal and a raid wide dps buff.....hmmm. Ya no sorry, but sam contributing nothing other than dps should have no equal with the other melee jobs. RPR damage should be in the range of drg after drg gets a proper buff to bring it up a bit and mnk needs to be in that same range.

ALL of the prog groups yesterday were running RPR. I don't think I saw a SAM in any of them. Why would they bring one when RPR does SAM damage and brings great raid utility?