The Feast (4v4 Solo) Season 3 Patch 3.45 Tier List

[Februs]

I don't understand the Black Mage nerfs at all.

Basically this:

I remember something about the jp players are extremely good using blm and there are a lot of complaints about their CCs.

On the Jp servers, the top 100 was dominated by a huge collection of BLM's who had learned how to accurately balance their CC with dmg output. Party coordination was also a problem because a BLM could string together their CC with stuns and essentially keep a target locked out of combat for a very long time. It was possible to both guarantee kills when using it offensively, or completely shut down an enemy burst (sleep + stun through their entire buff period) while using it defensively. From what I understand, it became a serious problem on their servers because it was almost mandatory to bring a BLM into Feast. All other ranged jobs were overshadowed, and SE didn't want that.

In the NA/EU servers, this wasn't nearly as big of a problem. Most times, our BLM's seem to focus almost purely on one or the other, either having excellent CC but having laughable dmg, or having excellent dmg but terrible CC. The job also didn't explode in popularity like it did in JP. Mch and Brd bursts seem to be the more popular option on this side of the puddle, for the moment, so the trouble with BLM's goes unnoticed here.