I strongly disagree unfortunatly, we have Occultation which enduces a shadow like effect that is stronger then a RDMs blink. So with out /NIN we are still a better DD class and is even more apparent when /NIN is removed. Silence is remedied as all other mage classes silena, or a curing waltz. Which a BLU can easily use /DNC and use as an alternative style instead of /NIN and is actually very beneficial. Saying that is a weakness is pretty apparent and is still the same exact weakness as a RDM, so I'm not sure if thats a good argument and such. Also we do have the capability to swap into a mage nuker and I'm willing to argue, from what I've seen and done, a BLU's nukes will out-do a RDM's any day. Honestly BLU is just a balanced DD all around, magical or physical. Of course if you are going against something with magical resist, you go physical, if you got physical resist, you go magical, and we have the capability to swap to what is ever needed and do it effectively, not great, but very effective. And no they do not, Cocoon is a .5, Occultation is a .5 and animating wail is only a matter of seconds, I'm not sure what spells you are looking at to make such a claim, perhaps Voracious Trunk? Not much of a buff but it does absorb them.