Why Black Mage is the best designed job and what can be learned from it

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I remember back during HW in one of their live letters. They acknowledged the overwhelmingly negative responses to PLD sucking so bad (blocks only affecting Physical damage when raid tiers are mostly magical because DRK was the new tank back then and one of its highlights, I think it still has it at this moment, is its magical mitigation) and promised that they will make adjustments. Surely they did. Indomitability/Emergency Tactics was SE's answer to SCH missing an on-demand AoE healing other than Succor spamming.

And who would've forgotten the SMN that we have right now? It is not engaging and downright boring but still the job has undergone rework after rework, hopefully they do another. The changes might not be the right one but again, it is a progress.

I mean I still don’t get why you think HW problems that were fixed 3 expansions ago have any relevance to the current talent or quality of the design team

PLD’s trajectory during EW has been well designed class that’s too weak->well designed class that’s still too weak but not as weak->diet GNB

If we are bringing up things they have “fixed” since HW we can also make an argument that just about every class has become better or worse in 10,000 different ways depending on the player