Oh hey I was about to come post something about this, but here it is already. I agree wholeheartedly that we need to rework it and I'm not even at endgame. Monk and Dragoon both got their overbearing timers removed for QoL, I think it's about time we work AF/UI into the abilities either as stacks or just continuous buffs if this is the direction the game wants to go. I don't wanna have to spam Transpose/Umbral Soul between pulls/mechanics just to keep Polyglot up if I'm also having to juggle so much other stuff and losing it all to a single misplay. No other class has so harsh a timer that really doesn't reward you for playing well, and only seems to make you feel bad when you mess up. Why's Black Mage gotta be the one with such a frustrating core mechanic?

Yoshi P said he wanted to make busy jobs feel more rewarding, well-... His favorite's entirely too busy a job right now even pre-endgame, and barely holding third place in DPS. I think it's time we standardize a little and make it less punishing like we did with Monk and Dragoon.