Black Mage

[nakaflocka]

Dw it's mainly QoL and not straight up buffs (we haven't seen potencies either, the changes are just an overview). They don't change the power, just simplified some things.
Right now SMN really only needed QoL cause damage is good, just need to make it easier to acces it (you need to know the fight as well as a BLM cause it's a frikin nuclear power plant control room at times and just like BLM with positionning, it doesn't go well in progress)

Turning a single target skill into an AoE skill is absolutely a buff unless they happen to massively nerf the potency, cooldown and/or duration from it's current iteration.

But we gain utility, and if fflogs translates devotion the way it does with radiant shield, then yes it will be too much. We can't have a SMN doing the same as the black mage damage wise WITH rez and devotion, that's not balanced.

Whether it's attributed to the SMN or not doesn't matter, what matters is the raid DPS gain.