Black Mage

[Remedi]

If you say that BLM have troubles in mechanics like void blizzard 3/icestorm+levinbolt, I don't see how RDM fares any better. In small movements yes they are fine but in prolonged they start to fail the ABC rule pretty hard, while BLM do have a very marginal safety net.
Also I don't honestly believe embolden is 400+ rdps alone, I heard it was mathed out to be around 200 rdps, if that's correct they should then be a little below average BLM and crazy below a very good BLM and ofc much lower than SMN even before their rdps.

But they are rez dispenser so it's all good right? No, if a fight has either a tight dps check or a mechanich were dying makes the boss stronger, beign a rez dispenser is not that great if then you lack the dmg to close the fight
Consider that in 3.0 during A3s because their output was low AST were left out even thought their contribution to raid dps was, even with all the RNG shenanigans, above the other 2 healers. (Miunih did in fact believe it was A3s the fight were the difference would be shown)

SMN and RDM have pretty similar utilities however one does much more dmg than the others, beign able to do multiple ress will really offset that? Probably not because ppl might just go with BRD/MCH anyway.
STill the fact that they have been labeled this way makes me think that the problems will come eventually because it means that nothing else stands out, because another does it better one way or another

Btw what invoked the power creep of the ranged job, was the in-fitghing between the 2 on who had the best dps/utility possible and how the playerbase judged who was or wasn't competitive enough.
Because of this I say that we should try to avoid a repeat of this situation and be extremely careful on where the changes need to come to BLM while beign mindful of the surroundings

I know that it's fairly difficult that casters will ever be as competitive as the ranged meta because of lack of major synergies, but still that is the example that we should not replicate