Quote Originally Posted by Llugen View Post
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.
The problem with that is that Blm has zero party utility, the only thing we had, Apoc, was opened to all casters.
SE keeps defending their op Sam by saying they should be top as they have no other benefits for the group. That logic should apply to Blm as well.