Quote Originally Posted by Larx View Post
It has broken a fundamental rule of balance in this game, It now (when in the right hands) does more damage than samurai and black mage AND has support.
This. Mechanical issues with summoner aside, the most recent changes put it seriously out of balance. There's no reason at all to want a BLM in your party at this point, and even before the changes it was marginal, since only truly exceptional BLMs could pull enough dps to make up for their lack of support options. And please, don't bring up Addle and Apoc. All three casters get that, it's not in point in favor or against. And frankly poor RDMs at this point need a substantial potency buff to their melee combo or *something*, because right now it and DRK have fallen seriously behind, balance-wise. Even Embolden in a full physical comp doesn't really make up for their lack of dps.

SMN *should* be sitting at the brd/mch damage tier. Played properly they bring near-equivalent support options.