Quote Originally Posted by Dwill View Post
Apocastatis is an extremely good spell for progression, clever use of Manaward and/or Manawall gives Black Mages a distinct advantage on damage heavy phases and Flare as been useful on quite a few occasions. All of these
tools are not available to Summoner whatsoever. Having Summoner slightly better in single target than Black Mages (around 3-5% higher) while keeping Black Mages the respective king of Burst/AoE would be a fair tradeoff and
would by no means invalidate the use of Black Mages. That argument, which has been brought in this very thread before is nothing short of being overly dramatic.
When SMN's did more dps than BLM in SCoB, BLM was a poor choice for any serious raid group and many BLM had to play SMN. Was this needed to kill T9? no, but it helped a lot of raid teams get the kill quicker. I don't think it's being overly dramatic, I think SMN and BLM should be on equal footing potential DPS-wise for FCoB. BLM has some good utility, but SMN has s bit better utility.

Quote Originally Posted by Dwill View Post
Nothing personal but I have difficulty being told by a class which ressources are theoretically infinite what the scale of the buff should be.
The "infinate resourses" thing has been brought up over and over again, does this make BLM do excessive DPS? no, in order to keep going we sacrifice DPS, just like SMN has to do in longer fights. It's the potential DPS of the class that matters, not the different class mechanics.

Funny thing is, melee are that much better dps-wise that we casters are mostly fighting over 1 raid spot, for BCoB I remember 2 casters being much more common.