Q: I feel that black mage is a bit overpowered.

[Gamemako]

Now to address your comment .. frankly it makes you sound very ignorant because the reason that coil groups take a bard IS NOT because of its dps , Im going to leave it at that and see if you can figure out why coil groups take bards with them

Simmer down, now.

BRD contends with the ongoing problem with support classes in MMORPGs. Once that buff is in the wild, it becomes your design standard. In order for BRD to be truly balanced, it must have sufficient drawbacks that replacing the job entirely does not unduly gimp the party. The utility it provides must be fully replaceable. If you build a party with no BRD at present, content is nearly impossible to complete. This is partially an encounter design failure (encounters too long, results in TP starvation and ultimately triggering enrage timer) and partially a class balance failure.

Quite frankly, BRD need a much larger nerf than they will get, but there's a lot that goes into it. Encounters right now are built in such a way that BRD are a tailor-made counterpick for everything. Silence for ADS? Blunt Arrow. TP starvation? Army's Paeon. Pushy mechanics like Landslide and bombs? All range and no cast time. That said, it seems that the dev team's approach is simply going to be to buff everyone else. MNK was not bad before, but is getting buffed further. BLM is still absurdly powerful, but has avoided the nerfbat.

BLM:

Please read the thread before responding. Your response to that post is nearly identical to Voire's, to which I responded:

One way or the other, that misses the point -- BLM does not comparatively lack utility. If you discount Lethargy, then you must also discount Feint. Physick is (sadly) not worse than cross-class Mantra. If Leg Sweep is not being used as a primary interrupt, then Virus and Eye for an Eye are also superior long-term damage reduction. Virus can be used to reduce Death Sentence damage, but Leg Sweep cannot. I do not find the utility argument compelling when it it is not generally applicable.