A few questions for the BLM mains/enjoyers

[Kabooa]

I don't think raise is worth the ginormous chasm of DPS that exists between RDM and BLM currently.

Based on historic use rates, raise has been worth an 8-15% lead over the (Usually summoner) second highest damage caster.

When the difference is less than this, Black Mage use rates plummets to roughly equal or less than the last highest damage caster (Usually Red Mage)

Those use rates include double casters comps. Black Mage is almost never a solo caster, except in speed runs.

[Alex1337]

It's more a lack of study of mechanics (which goes beyond rotation).
Assuming you know the mechanics, the smn must know how the mechanics happen, the blm must also know how to maintain uptime.
In the first tier of EW we had a blm that never died but was last in dps, he got the mechanics right but he was ruining all his uptime, if he had played smn this problem didn't really exist.

Sure, that's absolutely possible and likely true but, I offer you the converse of what you're suggesting, a BLM which knows how to exploit every single mechanic at every single point of the fight to have 100% optimal uptime, which again leads back to my point of buffs mean nothing if the job isn't as braindead to play as SMN, giving mindless buffs because its 'So hard' vs, just reworking the job is not, in my opinion, healthy and, will make balancing the game in the broader sense alot harder, so I do not understand Llugen's take that BLM deserves EVEN more buffs because X; strat adjusts, Y; alot more work Z:?? - to expand on this SAM has to think about their castsm, sure less than BLM but they still do specifically this tier which spits out movement mechanics during 2 mins and is already at a disadvantage because SAM cannot swift or triple cast (caloric 2 can be a nightmare) NIN has to think of TCJ. The job(BLM) is clearly designed for those who want to think about mechanics relative to their rotations, so why change that? Buffing a job because they can't have perfect uptime in every single use case (lower end of spectrum) means that those at the higher end of the spectrum that do know how to have perfect uptime will absolutely destroy every other job which brings into question the balance point I brought up again.

Based on historic use rates, raise has been worth an 8-15% lead over the (Usually summoner) second highest damage caster.

When the difference is less than this, Black Mage use rates plummets to roughly equal or less than the last highest damage caster (Usually Red Mage)

Those use rates include double casters comps. Black Mage is almost never a solo caster, except in speed runs.

8-15% of what? Time spent progging? DPS/HPS? Neuron activation?

Black mage is solo in speeds because they do far more RDPS than SMN or RDM which, interestingly enough emphasizes the point i made; if you join a speed group/pf the idea will be that you NEVER raise at which point, SMN and RDM may aswell just log out considering the chasm I mentioned. Some world prog groups have their caster (particularly on last fights) prog as SMN or RDM and then switch to BLM so that the enrage/dps check are not even a point of consideration.