SE are leaving BLM to rot by giving SMN and RDM even more utility

[Rai_Takara]

BLM has something the other two don't have.

And that is D A M A G E

Black mage is doin just fine

And the other two could lose their raises and have their damage upped to compensate so no caster is better than another in terms of damage. Plus, as the other poster mentioned, people like safety so they'll naturally skew towards RDM/SMN atm and that's bad (more so in 7.x when SMN loses their raise and RDM is the only one that'll be wanted, which is why it's likely it'll also lose its raise or it'll be heavily neutered).