DPS should be WAR > GNB > DRK > PLD

[Mithron]

Let’s take DRK, it’s traditionally a dps that sacrifices HP to deal damage.

DRK is traditionally a solid tank: FF3 and FF4. It wasn't until later FFs they tried to relabel it as a DPS. In original FF3 and NA FF4, they didn't even have HP draining abilities but it still makes sense as a tank who is meant to receive most of the heals.

PLD has always embodied the high defense and healing/utility tank. FF1, FF3, FF4, FF5, FF9.
WAR has usually been high DPS low defense frontline. Berserker in FF5 comes the closest to it.
GNB is more of a modern invention with Squall, who's very well rounded and high damage/VIT. So makes sense GNB would be behind WAR and above DRK/PLD.

[Cabalabob]

DRK is traditionally a solid tank: FF3 and FF4. It wasn't until later FFs they tried to relabel it as a DPS. In original FF3 and NA FF4, they didn't even have HP draining abilities but it still makes sense as a tank who is meant to receive most of the heals.

PLD has always embodied the high defense and healing/utility tank. FF1, FF3, FF4, FF5, FF9.
WAR has usually been high DPS low defense frontline. Berserker in FF5 comes the closest to it.
GNB is more of a modern invention with Squall, who's very well rounded and high damage/VIT. So makes sense GNB would be behind WAR and above DRK/PLD.

This is exactly my point, your ideas of what the jobs should be differ from someone else’s. Ask anyone what a DRK is, do you think they’re going to tell you it’s a tank that uses white magic basically just an upgrade to the knight class? Because that’s what it was in the original ff3? No, they’re going to tell you it’s a dps that wears heavy armour and sacrifices health to deal damage, possibly having some black magic like drain spells mixed in.

WAR in ff1 and ff3 was just a fighter that could use most melee weapons, in fact if you’re talking in that most literal sense, WAR should be weaker than PLD AND DRK since knight (knight and paladin being one and the same in the ff series) and DRK in ff1 and 3 were simply direct upgrades to the WAR.

FF3 and 4 remakes remedied this by giving jobs more iconic moves, the warrior and knight were differentiated by WAR having advance, allowing it to do full damage from the backline while only taking normal damage, or do extra damage from the frontline for extra damage taken. Meanwhile knight got the defend command to decrease damage taken further. But if you’re going to take a revisionist view of this version of WAR and PLD you can’t also ignore that they made DRK into it’s more iconic form there too.