Monk and samurai have always been close, but samurai consistently had slightly higher damage while monk brought lots of utility in the form of mantra and brotherhood. However a good monk with really good crit rng can compete with a samurai. Currently picto is defecating all over black mage in damage and utility when black mage was the historic rival of all top dps jobs like samurai. admittedly this expansion has been tough for samurai too regarding its performance against other more supportive melee. At least with melee there's some reason for it. dragoon and ninja both lost a lot of utility in dawntrail and endwalker. ninjas can't buff damage for the party every 60 seconds any more, dragoon can't tether to people for left eye buffs anymore, and reaper had it's regen utility nerfed hard shortly after being released. the whole melee role has become stronger and more selfish and created a more competitive environment for samurai. for casters theres a huge gap in utility and personal dps between each job. summoner and red mage can res people so those are on the low end of damage but still provide enough utility to be brought into comps that want it. black mage does not do enough damage to fairly compete with pictomancer and that is a design travesty. pictomancer does not deserve to be nerfed to the level of red mage or summoner because it will never be used over them if that happens but black mage can't stay where it is either. they need to not do dumb stuff like nerf enochian out of fear of black mage out dpsing picto. It's a selfish dps it by design is supposed to do that. god help me if a new phys ranged with utility comes out and does more personal damage than machinist. selfish jobs should be balanced around each other not their individual role. That is why jobs like black mage and machinist feel so weak.
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