What is the Caster Role for 5.0 Going Forward and Where is balance?

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Okay, but right now BLM doesn't have it and that's a serious consideration to have when you flat out don't have res utility on the caster DPS slot, since not having it puts a ton of pressure on the healers during prog or, on the flip side, removes a ton of pressure from healers if you happen to have a double caster group with smn/rdm.

The current situation is bad though and BLM suffers more for lack of it than it would suffer because of having it.

Also, there is not and can never be such a thing as "glass cannon" in FFXIV because of the way encounters and healing is designed. Fundamentally, every DPS is a glass cannon in the game because of this, even if some of them do more damage than others. Every DPS dies to the same things usually, they can survive the same things, the only difference is whether you have Manaward or nothing at all.



No, it's a caster thing. 2 of the 3 casters have it, and Arcanist got in combat resurrections before you could even be a Scholar. The inclusion of Red Mage more or less sealed res utility being a thing on casters since they added it at a time when they were starting to remove abilities they didn't want SMN to have that was there because of scholar. So because of that, it ended up being caster utility.

Sure, you can remove it, or you can keep it, but as long as the majority of casters have it, any caster not having it is a serious balance problem and motivation against taking that class.

And the type of utility I'm talking about on ranged is Shield Samba. It's a baseline thing that all of them take that's very powerful. 2 of 3 casters have something in the same vein, the third does not.

BLM is not suffering in any way. All the top EX clears have one now.
It's 'glass canon' role comes into play as a turret, rather than having less HP/defense. Which means it's vulnerability is entirely dependent on player skill.

And before RDM, there was 1 caster with a Res. It's not a caster thing.

If you give BLM a res, it's DPS gets nerfed, that's the reality.
Nerf BLM DPS and it becomes useless, because of its playstyle. THEN it will suffer as MNK/SAM will always be chosen over BLM for DPS, and SMN/RDM will always be chosen over BLM for mobility/utility.
BLM's USP right now is its high DPS.