Either SMN and RDM should lose their Raise or BLM should get a Raise.

[Llugen]

In short, you're literally just looking for a crutch to lean on when you ask that black mages get a Raise variant, and in doing so you fail to understand what black mages are.

Sigh. It's painful, it really is. I say the same things over and over again that people apparently haven't even bothered reading. I addressed like literally everything in this post already; the fact that you can't understand it is staggering.

The caster role is off-balance. Two out of three of the jobs have access to Raise, an extremely useful progression tool. One of them does not. Which do you think will be shunned? Lore is important and lore can be reinvented, not sure where you get the idea that things haven't changed since FFIII, there have been tons of additions and changes and re-imaginings since then. This franchise is the literal definition of recycling/reimagining concepts and ideas.

Please, tell me some more that I "don't understand" the class. I understand perfectly well that no matter how much damage it does (within reasonable balance), the other two jobs will still be significantly stronger for progression. Call it "a crutch" all you want, I don't even care anymore, it's a crutch that every party benefits significantly from, which translates directly into shunning BLM. In case you missed the memo, they stopped "intense damage checks" after Gordias, save for ultimate, and exactly TWO BLMs have cleared unending coil.

If you don't raid at progression levels, then this issue basically doesn't even concern you, to be blunt. You're not the one who will be forced to play another job because of the imbalance of the role.