Yoshi-P: "If you want more engaging content, go play Ultimate"

[Semirhage]

Let's skip historical revisionism here.

Both single and multi-step ("diminishing returns") falloff damage have affected on physical attacks at some point. Tenka Goken, for instance, had 3-step fall-off originally, iirc, while Quietus originally had 1-step.

That falloff is also irrelevant; all that matters is the relative strength of the skill in an average/maximum pull. Rarely, if ever, has the damage of a skill's lowest falloff step been increased (outside of broad potency inflation across a whole kit to make up for the removal of %damage traits) just because earlier steps were removed.

It is also highly unlikely that dungeon gating was done JUST to nerf Black Mages and White Mages.

Yes, it's disappointing that supports' maximum offensive throughput has decreased over time (and I'd agree if you were to say that trend should be reversed), but that (quoted above) is, at best, quite the conflation.

Thanks for the correction. I have rage-colored glasses at Holy being nerfed, and nerfed, and nerfed, and nerfed, and nerfed, and nerfed, and nerfed, and nerfed.