Please reconsider an upcoming Black Mage change.

[HikariKurosawa]

Hold on. If you can already play 100% instant and its optimal in many~most cases, why on Eorzea would you need more instant casts? Do you want to be a caster or just a Bard?

Caster refers to using magic spells, not necessarily turret casting spells. It's why the term instant cast exists.

If combat is going to evolve to be more engaging and position dependent, then casters also have to evolve alongside it or else they will become redundant.

Even if semantics mattered as much as you are implying, at least use them correctly. I get that turret casting should exist, but it's not nearly as important or defining of the role as you are making it out to be.

Casters play caster because they like using magic spells. Black mage is the purest caster, not because of cast times, but because it uses the purest forms of magic and doesn't stray from them at all.

On top of this, the main "appeal" of black mage for "high end" players was the existence of non-standard play. Now that's more prevalent and dynamic than ever before with how you can go from anywhere between full instant cast to full standard. What is optimal will vary based on what is possible.

These changes are very good for the job. It's both more flexible than ever before while also being more straight-forward than ever before.