I think the thing that makes me most upset about the SMN nerf is that being objective, BLM is the better endgame raiding mage choice. SMN is so much fun and BLM is so zzzz. Now that I need to go BLM for endgame raiding I've lost a lot of interest in this game. SE takes one step forward with patch 2.1 and two steps back with their class "Balancing" decisions, at least as a SMN main.