Quote Originally Posted by hallena View Post
Did you level up playing only ARR content with ARR only skills?
The only time now black mage shine at killing weak adds is when they are stacked enough to flare them. other than that black mage are awful at killing single target weak adds because scathe is shit, they die before you can cast fire IV and most of the time if you cast fire I, It will land and deal 2.5k damage when the add has 5-10% hp left
With no party coordination, you're right. But which is a bigger loss for the party, the monk using a shoulder tackle to a distant mob and hitting it with a couple pops, then running back to the boss, or the BLM swapping targets to pop the add down and back onto the boss seamlessly?