I know this will likely be scoffed by some people, but given the dev teams have always been Hell bent on showcasing BLMs with Scythe for some reason or another, is there the possibility of making BLM at least competent with the weapon?
As far back as Zilart, we've seen the BLM Taru Crystal Warrior wielding Scythe, gotten MANY R/E Scythes with suprisingly nice boosts to stats, as well as alot of promotional images even back in the Vana'idel Tribune showcasing BLMs using them. The kicker, though, is that BLM has horrible HORRIBLE skill rating with that weapon type. As it stands, BLM has a very unimpressive E Rating with them, and doesn't even have access to most of the weapon skills on the weapon. The most notable one that we can get for use requires us to change to /WAR to proc Red !! in Abyssea, and that's just silly.
WHM has club as their goto melee choice of weapons, as well as B+ skill rating in it that causes them to rival regular DD jobs pending on playerskill / mob type, so why can't BLM have a bit of love with the melee weapon SE loves to constantly hand us from high end NMs?
One last thing, just in case one of the community staff actually read this and don't mind clarifying it, but I've always been curious as to why BLM really have been shown extensively with scythes in XI. I see little nods here and there to Black Mage related things in other games in the series, like the black waltz wings from the /jobemote, but I don't truly recall any scythe wielding ones anywhere in the FF series.