Can we talk about the fact that caster is the only role that is divided into progression jobs (red mage and summoner) and speed jobs (black mage).

The other DPS jobs are all balanced around their damage + their party DPS boosting utility. You are either high personal damage with little to no party DPS boosting utility, lower personal damage with higher party DPS boosting utility, or something in between.

This creates this weird balance where a black mage is superior to red mage and summoner when you don’t need rez. You’re more likely to meet DPS checks with an equally skilled black mage than you are with a summoner or red mage.

With melee, you’ve got a job like SAM with extremely high personal damage, with no damage utility. NIN has lower personal damage, but can make up for that damage by boosting the party damage.

I think the dev team either needs to take another look at rez on red mage and summoner. That or add another high DPS low utility caster so that we have another option outside of black mage.