Just a humble opinion from a fan of the game and jobs

[Zackmag1993]

I hope you can support my opinion.

The balance of the game needs to be reconsidered. let's not forget, we are on ending content, the main story is over, open to new possibilities. Allow jobs to be broken, to provide more party utility, buffs, and sense according to their lores.

I love Dragoons, Summoners, and Black Mage, I love Samurai and MAchinist

Make the tank's damage the same and big according to the content, it's okay to break them a bit, give the dark knight a healing ability as all other tanks do.

Dragoon should have their damage balance with reaper and samurai, okay samurai can deal a bit more damage, but you can for example add a party utility ability that does the same as the kaiten ability did but with all the party members.

Dragoon for me is great just balance it more with samurai, and also reaper the same.
Allow dragoon maybe, to summon a dragon partner that also deals damage, that is part of the lore of dragoons

Summoner, I think summoner needs more summons inside the rotation that it has, and to be more accordingly to the lore, you can add on the three-way rotation LEviathan, Ramuh, and shiva, and arcane summon could be odin, and you can change the LB to be a bahamut flare, such as it was on the coils, to make it better, increase the damage of all casters to be as close to melee, the same as to range, and allow to carbuncle has more present on the damage rotation, for example, make it auto attack, according to the player action, as for If you cast Ruin it cast a single damage spell that can go accordingly to the summon you did, for example ifrit, carbuncle does primal fire as the single target attack, if it is the aoe version allow carbuncle to do an Aoe version attack of ifrit, and so on, that will make summoner awesome, also, allow for the healing ability of summoner to be at least as a red mage, that is significant, because it stops working at level 25, and you use it no more, that will be a great way to correct that.

As for black mage, allow for lay lines to be a party buff that increases casting speed, for all players the same amount of time as it does and not a standstill ability, and also that increase speed of movement and maybe critical hit for 5 % that way Black mage will have utility not only on its damage, also add a healing ability that heals it overtime such as regen do, that could be great on it

As for machinists, well the same all DPS should have their damage balance to be close to each other enough to be playable on all content, simple as that.
MAchinist needs a party buff, it already has a party defense ability, but remember, it is the physical damage dealer of range it needs to have a critical hit buff for all the parties for at least 5%

Make it new, make it broken, we are on the ending content
This is my humble opinion on making some classes good again.
I know there are more people that know more than me, I hope they support this opinion and add more.

Thank you.

[Raikai]

As for machinists, well the same all DPS should have their damage balance to be close to each other enough to be playable on all content, simple as that.
MAchinist needs a party buff, it already has a party defense ability, but remember, it is the physical damage dealer of range it needs to have a critical hit buff for all the parties for at least 5%

Machinist doesn't necessarily need a party buff, they just need their personal dps buffed to have their total rdps on par with the other 2 aiming jobs. I think the "selfish" of the aimings is fine as a concept, you're the only one responsible for your total dps, whereas a DNC relies on the other dpsers to be good for them to be actually good.

The job certainly needs more utility than just Tactician to be competitive with the other two in that aspect.

[Ransu]

Making everything broken does not sound like fun. The overall balance of the game right now is actually pretty good. I don't particularly care for the 2 minute windows and the problems it causes, but outside of a few outliers the balance is decent right now.

And dear God no, dragoons don't need a pet.

[CKNovel]

And dear God no, dragoons don't need a pet.

I am a pet expert.

Pets sucks and are boring in this game.
The best pet is the RPR Avatar, because it's a pet in visuals only.

I agree:
No pets.

[Calysto]

I can't not support drg pet wyvern.

Just add it to the lore make it follow you like carby ; change some animations so it does a breath or something instead of "generic dragon scales effect".

Too bad they stopped caring about Jobs lore.

Also, pets sucks only since ShB ; they may have been a bit clunky, but they still are, just less fun.

[Ransu]

I can't not support drg pet wyvern.

Just add it to the lore make it follow you like carby ; change some animations so it does a breath or something instead of "generic dragon scales effect".

Too bad they stopped caring about Jobs lore.

Also, pets sucks only since ShB ; they may have been a bit clunky, but they still are, just less fun.

A wyvern for the lore of XIV's version of dragoon would make zero sense.

[Calysto]

A wyvern for the lore of XIV's version of dragoon would make zero sense.

Of course... If it's before the end of Heavensward.
Did you skip Stormblood DRG quests with Heustienne and Orn Khai ?

[T-Owl]

A wyvern for the lore of XIV's version of dragoon would make zero sense.

You killed his parents, now you're raising it until it becomes big and fat enough to cook and eat. See, I did it.

[Keichi]

A dragon to summon would only make sense, when whe are materialising the dragon aura, that whe can actually use.
Or, whe use this Ur dragon, who sealed the power of Hydaelin away, when whe was in heavensward.
He traveled with us in form of a small dragon. And i forgot, if something happened with him. I think the last time whe saw this small dragon was by the omega raid.

But, a dragoon pet didnt feel like, to fit in the fighting stil of the drg with his jumps and spear attacks. I think it would feel as much of "out of place" like ifris meele attack of the summoner.
What the dragoon need more are more Animations variations with his spear attack and magic attacks (they are mostly the same, pushing the spear simply forward). A 360° degree attack, where whe rotate around us (or use the dragon aura for that) would be nice.
Or something similary to the moves of lancer from fate stay night.

[FireMage]

the main story is over

Wrong. Your whole reason for these changes hinges on misinformation