Quote Originally Posted by roflcaust View Post
As it currently stands, I don't see how BLM will not be topping the DPS chart.

There is a huge and inherent benefit from being ranged right now and it's crippling DRGs and MNKs very significantly.

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This needs to be seriously looked at and remedied accordingly as it's simply not fair for melee classes to have this inherent handicap as compared to ranged classes who don't seem to have any drawbacks besides being a bit squisher than melee classes in terms of dishing out DPS.

Agreed. Melee should have higher Base Damage to off set the positional requirements.

Utility should also be factored in. Either every DPS class has to bring equal Utility (boring IMO) or there needs to be an inverse ratio between DPS and Utility.
A lot of this comes from the odd decision to change Bard to a DPS class. I'm still unsure why Bard wasn't kept as Utility and Ranger wasn't added as the DPS Job for Archer.