Quote Originally Posted by Yorumi View Post
AOE was pretty heavily nerfed across all classes. Almost everything has fall off now, including bane. Speaking of smns and scholars shadow flare isn't permanent, miasma II is gone, bliz II is gone etc. Mch turret has fall off now. I honestly kind of wonder why they bother to put aoe in the game cause clearly they don't want us using it.
For the most part yes, except for Black Mage. According to the new tooltip information, Flare now only scales down to 30% less damage rather than 50%. Thunder IV and Foul have been added while the changes to Blizzard IV allow for more casts of Fire II. I would not be the least bit surprised if Black Mage became the new AoE king. Summoner is harder to judge because their AoE is now entirely focused on ability usage.