Quote Originally Posted by Akiza View Post
The overall difference between an exceptional Black Mage and an exceptional Summoner is the Black Mages have 10% higher single target damage than Summoner which is large but not large enough to make the Summoner pointless. My concern is if SE does a flat out potency buff to Black Mage to fix their movement issues than the Summoner will be rendered useless and have no reason to be in the game.
That's exactly what happened to BLMs in 2.2 and why SMNs were indeed rendered obsolete for the second half of the 2.x patch cycle. The real kicker was that SE buffed BLMs to compensate for dps lost to movement and then proceeded to implement multiple largely stationary fights in coil, causing those buffs to be vastly overcompensating. All the big changes SMNs got in the expansion were to bring us back into line with BLMs but many BLMs are just seeing all the buffs and jumping to the conclusion that we're now vastly superior, completely oblivious to how far behind we've been for ages.

BLM potencies are fine. Their rotation just needs to be made a little less strict so they can more easily reach the numbers they're capable of.