A few questions for the BLM mains/enjoyers

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

Mm, by the numbers, including class use rates both in savage/ultimates and outside, BLM is in anything but ideal shape.

There's only 1 class less played than Black Mage right now, and it's nowhere close to ideal. Or, to put it another way, they made BLM the literal best DPS class in the game and people still aren't playing it. That should say a lot about the state the class is actually in.

It's in the state of sharing a dps slot with the Caster that you can teach a lab rat to play that still produces acceptable DPS numbers at lv90 and borderline broken numbers below 80.

The reason why BLM is in such a state is because people will go the path of least resistence when having to learn a Caster job by choosing the Caster that essentially doesn't cast.

If melee wasnt so dominant that you do double melee or bust AND if Summoner wasn't disrespecting the role by essentially being a physical Ranged DPS in caster gear and actually had a modicum of casting let alone skill requirement, you'd see a better balance between Caster jobs. It would also help if they axed Resurrection and Verraise since that heavily skews reason to pick the other two over Black Mage.

BLM has issues, but none of them big enough to be "the reason" why participation is low.