Black Mage Raise Ability

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But not against Thaumaturges. So you can give it to them before you make the job transition and everything is peachy okay for 'identity'. Do recall they do shady stuff with Necromancy.

BLM =/= THM (we have all our THM spells, the rest are BLM, the two, while linked are independent as much as ROG and NIN are).
Necromancy =/= Raising (unless you want us to come back with zombie and have the healer immediately kill them again)

BLM's identity is about void magic, destruction spells and bursty turret damage. A raise spell fits the identity of PLD (Cecil can learn raise in FFIV) far more than it does BLM, and I don't want it on PLD either.

You can talk about game balance all you like, but the fact is the only problem with job balance right now is the fact summoner as a job is a broken heap of dung at the moment. Black mages and red mages are both fine as they are. Machinists I guess could use some potency buffs, but nothing huge like having to overhaul the entire summoner job. Even scholars are in a better place than summoner right now.

No-one disputed that SMN needs buffs, tweaks, and changes, I know for a fact that this is true, the devs know that this is true, and those changes are confirmed for 4.1. This thread is not about SMN at all, nor MCH, nor any other job except BLM and RDM.

You say they are fine, but from my own experience, and other people in this thread, RDM is in a much much better place than other casters for progression (the most important part for the meta, after that nobody cares what you play - BLM can do bigger numbers, but if you can clear on a RDM, then the bigger numbers aren't necessary), and that is mostly down to its utility, mobility, and unimpaired damage, I'm not sure how that constitutes fine. RDM doesn't need big changes, only small tweaks, but saying it is fine is turning a blind eye to what the job is actually capable of (I've had both healers die at the same time in savage many times and we still get the weekly clear thanks to having a RDM, nothing a BLM can offer is equivalent to that).