Quote Originally Posted by Bourne_Endeavor View Post
Black Mage has better utility.

- TP issues are almost null and void nowadays. If you happen to die twice and miss Tactician from BRD/MCH, well, it's probably better to wipe anyway.
- The vast majority of fights deal high magic damage, thus Feint is worthless
- Scholar and especially Astro will inevitably bottom out on MP if they're highly aggressive with DPS, making manashift is far more useful.
- I already said why Slashing on Samurai is dumb.
but thats your opinion about the utility SAM has , in the end SAM has (slashing debuff , feint , goad ) BLM has (manashift , addle)

in my opinion slashing debuff is really useful and allows for different comps without relying on warrior or ninja