Quote Originally Posted by MellowMink View Post
I'm not exactly sure what would be so bad about Black Mage getting a raise ability, and I still don't think it's fair that out the eight (if you include Sage and Blue Mage) Disciple of Magic jobs, it's still the only one who doesn't have that power.

It also occurs to me that there is technically one action that Black Mage currently has for party utility: Addle. That's not a very significant one, mind you, but it's technically an exception to the damage-only rule.
Are you comparing... Caster DPS to healers? The role which first task is the group survival?
And if you want to include BLU, it has a very long cooldown on its res. 5 minutes if I'm not mistaken. And finally, BLU is BLU, you can't compare it to any job. It has the best mitigation, the best healing, the best dps...

If you want to argue about BLM party utility, don't forget that currently MCH has Tactician on a higher cooldown and is often outshined by DNC and/or BRD in specific situations.
Be happy that you at least have the damages.

In prog it's worth but past it, the res is effectively useless.