BLM needs more damage

[Lina_Slayer]

The problem right now is that clearing any 8-man content with a BLM is like putting a challenge on your group, it's like playing FFVI without using Ultima spam or things that are even more powerful, because you love the game but think it makes it too easy (been there done that), it's a job that is clunky for the group to play with, it has 0 utility, is more punished by mechanics than any class and ppl can't even claim it's easy to play to compensate because if you look at fflogs you'll see that the lower the percentile the worse BLM is doing...

It's by any objective metric the worst job in the game, and the only saving grace it has is that it's actually fun to play (IMO), but even then most healers think it is unfun to play with a BLM and for sure it's not fun for the entire group when you enrage at 1%, when I play my black mage I really think i'm having fun at others expense...

[Llugen]

....when I play my black mage I really think i'm having fun at others expense...

This. This right here.

There doesn't even NEED to be another reason to fix the job (although there are probably about a dozen). Nothing more even needs to be said.

[zuzu-bq]

The problem right now is that clearing any 8-man content with a BLM is like putting a challenge on your group(..)

This is sadly a true for most groups, while that does hurt the community's perception of BLM... Even when the BLM is good andd the group is great, they would still be better off with any other mage. Or a Machinist.

...when I play my black mage I really think i'm having fun at others expense...

The truth SE doesn't want to deal with. On a casual level, the group will have a hard time understanding you'll do as little movement as possible and this might hurt them. On a high skill level, you'd be doing more damage as another job. Why even play BLM?

I WOULD NOT recommend playing SMN in anything that is synced below level 70, as not having Bahamut/DoT IIIs/other skills at level 50 or lower is a huge gimp and it's really obnoxious to play, so this content is where BLM "excels" over SMN (Mentor roulette, trial roulette, alliance roulette).

Doing the new rotation with Hearts feels absolute garbage before Triplecast and Foul. I usually just prefer RDM for sync content. The fact they didn't care to rebalance older levels and RDM does a lot more than everyone else earlier is also a facotor in that decision