The current State of Casters 6.05 edition - balancing discussion

[Azuri]

@Azuri

- If anything, you provide nothing of value in this thread.
- This is a caster thread because it speaks of the current imbalance between BLM, SMN and RDM
- You personally attacked every single SMN discussion here and you tried to gaslight everyone with invalid arguments such as mobility should be taxed and that RDM support shouldn't matter in it's firepower
- You then gaslighted me by saying I'm biased for being a main Summoner while I've never trash talked any RDM nor I want them to be nerfed or straight up inferior to SMN
- You completely deny other testimonies from established world progression players on their choice and how they feel Summoner is weak and requires help right now
- You completely derailed this thread because you just and cannot accept that people want a balanced caster scene. Red Mage must be stronger from firepower and support so SMN may has well be deleted.

Mind you that it's fine that Summoner is this way right now and requires feedback. They received an entire job overhaul that has potential but too many flaws to work right now. The job overhaul was to allow Summoners to feel the gameplay like Summoner. That's also why it's the main topic of casters because they have to be compared to Red Mage and Black Mage and because Black Mage is a pure selfish DPS, the main role it needs to be compared is RDM.

That's like if you were a main Monk trying to defend why Ninja shouldn't get adjustments and buffs because finally, finally stinky little Ninja is trash and Monk is good.

Do you understand why you're the villain right now?

Not agreeing with you doesn't mean that I'm not contributing to the conversation. Your opinions are not absolute and as such are open to be challenged. Your opinion on "ranged tax" doesn't align with the precedent of how SE balanced physical ranged. Your opinion on rotational difficulty not correlating with higher damage doesn't align with the view of Director and Producer himself. I find it equally fair to challenge your opinion on support and general balance as well. Afterall, your arguments are full of double standards and fallacies. And since you have not yet deigned to adress those I consider them pretty valuable to highlight.

Honestly, we could meet in the middle as SaberMaxwell pointed out. With SMN and RDM on par with each other. Add another 200-250 rDPS to SMN and they will be within 5% variation and crit RNG of each other. One will pay for it's slightly higher support capabilites and the other for its slightly higher rotational simplicity and mobility. And no one will feel useless.