Don't change Black Mage too much

[Turtledeluxe]

I honestly wish Despair didn't exist, and that was just Flare (with cast time adjusted to match Despair) + falloff aoe damage, so it would fit both ST and AoE rotations. I don't think this would change the complexity of the job in the slightest and we could see that cool spell used often instead of mostly just in dungeon runs.

Same thing for Foul and Xenoglossy, Shoha and ShohaII, etc... If there's something doable to be pruned is the case of an AoE action that works exactly like its single target counterpart, except for the AoE component. Is like if Dancers had a Saber Dance and Saber Dance II.

I'm assuming they won't undo the skill bloat which means we will likely have to settle for something that makes Foul redundant. Here's hoping to a Flare II in 7.0.

Kind of also sucks spells like Ultima and Meteor are all tied up in the story/limit breaks. Another L for the classic blm experience imo. But at the same time I guess you'd need to modify those spells to make sense in context anyway since you'd be loading the job with AoEs by using any given traditional black magic spell from FF.