The arms race between BLM and SMN

[Enla]

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Because they already do balance around it. They've admitted as much to us when people have asked why RDM in particular had such poor DPS compared to SMN and to a lesser extent BLM. It's also why BRD was nerfed recently when they got some of their raid utility back. Utility = lower damage numbers in this MMO sadly, or at least that's how the balance team tends to think it should work.