Quote Originally Posted by soslinky View Post
It sheds light on how the 4.0 skills and their proposed changes to our rotation is ultimately futile. It seems that SE did the "This piece gear is different because the colors are different" treatment on us. The PPS of the 3.0 rotation is almost the same as our 4.0 rotation. The only significantly good thing Stormblood gave us is the incredibly powerful AOE potential thanks to T4P and UH letting us Flare>Foul>Flare every AF window.

Feels bad man
Personally I see no problem with BLM being weaker single target damage than summoner but stronger aoe damage, the thing is that would mean they have to design fights well around that, which they're generally terrible at doing (See also, all of patches 2.2 and 2.3).

The main issue here is that SMN is stronger single target AND provides significantly more utility (magic/physical vuln, devotion, raise, the role pool skills), and then everyone knows red mage is god tier utility and does pretty decent damage as well.