Black Mage

[HaroldSaxon]

@Llugen you forget that in the same interwiew they said they targeted ultimate to be cleared by any jobs unless you are in the wf race which means that to them competitive play being somewhat unbalanced is fine.
Frankly in all my years I've never seen competitive to be EVER balanced completely, it's simply impossible to achieve, there's no middle ground you either are on one spectrum or you are not. You could run ultimate without ACT for example but that would be shooting yourself in the foot, which can be said the same for composition, if you run for wf or if you run competitively to get the kill you'll want to have the most efficent comp your skill can get you.

As for them asking directly what to do to high end players so that they can paralyse some ideas. Well allow me to say you contradict yourself. You say that discussing ideas brings more ideas and fleshes out them more yet now you ask that only one guy should be the one to amass them to SE?
That's quite the power you are giving a single guy eh and speaking freely I don't think he really needs this level of fanboysm simply because he shares your ideas on raise.

You are right that it is nigh on impossible for it to be balance competitively, however, when a class has been out of the meta since the start of 3.0 (Although it took a few patches for it to solidify, with the triple melee comp eventually losing out to the current double ranged comp that has dominated since Patch 3.3), its unacceptable. The only real change to the meta is Red Mage being used in progression because of its raise utility.

I don't think giving BLM a raise will fix the class at all. Its got inherent DPS issues which will mean its going to always be outside of the meta, and compared to RDM has a steeper learning curve - you can take a RDM into a fight blind and do a lot better than with a BLM.

Once the DPS issues are fixed on BLM though, they still need to address the chunkiness of the class. There's a lot of QoL needed.

I don't expect SE to do it perfectly, but I at least expect them to try and break up this awful meta comp that has stuck around for so long. SMN was a good try at that, but its still outshone by NIN/BRD/MCH/DRG. I think SE should certainly ask players who play the game their advice and take it into account - it would be a good idea.