Right now the P8S fight is just toxic on casters. It's not just RDM underperforming. I personally feel SMN is also underperforming. Overall, they need to fix casters in general. It's just unacceptable that melee DPS have 10% more DPS than casters. BLM is likely to lack behind because movement is actually a pain this tier and I feel SMN is better only because movement is a thing.

I just find it obnoxious and unacceptable that both SMN and RDM are doing significantly worst DPS because of the "res tax" when my static is literally telling me to use swiftcast on DPS to beat the door boss enrage timer.

But the bigger picture is that Endwalker is the worst expansion in term of balance. RPRs are behind melees. MCH is just dead and do worst than other ranged phys. SMN/RDM get spots because in prog they have res. That'll be quickly removed on speed clears because BLM is still better. WAR/PLD are just really sad right now. But it's fine; lets tweak Samurai and invest all the time on DRG rework that we didn't put because they didn't consider the community would be really angry about removing Kaiten. Completely ignoring more basic and urgent issues.

If SE didn't forced having a caster and phys ranged, we'd run quad melee comps :<