Quote Originally Posted by Valence View Post
Casters ran out of MP when raising too much or just outright dying and being raised, like today, except recovery was a lot harder due to an extremely poor regen outside of Lucid uses (or party support refreshes). MP rotations were rarely MP neutral as well, especially in HW.

In dungeons and heavy AoE scenari, they did run out of MP on a regular basis especially with pulls taking too long, much like physical classes did with TP due to the steep cost behind those moves. BLM was an exception, but other jobs were affected by this to various degrees. BLM was literally valued for being a mana battery with manashift, especially appreciated by BRDs for Foe Requiem maximization.
Melee ran out of TP when sprinting and using too many ranged attacks. TP regen wasn't high either and TP rotations were not TP neutral either. Basically, they boil down to giving resources to people when things have gone wrong.

And again, we are going back to Black Mage, did Summoner or Redmage not want to use it? Probably not, especially if the Summoner or Red Mage are the ones raising. We have already established that they are MP negative, so no reason to keep eating into that. So, in the vast majority of cases, Black Mage was the only one that used it, and it had, in effect, infinite MP, so there was no cost to the Black Mage for using it. Just like Goad had no cost to the Ninja or any other jobs.

Again, they are essentially the same mechanically, so it makes no sense to enjoy one but not the other, especially when it was specifically enjoyed as a Black Mage.