They are gutting Black Mage even more in 7.2

[Niervel]

since despair had to make up for the extra flare star cast in AF

That wasn't the reason for the change. Despair refreshes AF, so you just cast flare-star afterwards. The reason was that Paradox-fire going from fire-1's cast-time to instant-cast meant that AF was refreshed 2.5s earlier, in a GCD - rather than just as the GCD was ending. This meant that instead of 15s to fit in 3 F3s and Despair, you now had 12.5. As a result, the recommendation was generally to do 4x F4 -> P-F -> 2x F4 -> Despair -> FS, making the second phase exceedingly tight. If you had to refresh Thunder or avoid overcapping on Polyglot, you would also need to burn a swift or triple to fit Despair or otherwise use Firestarter to keep AF rolling.

Despite insistence that the DT changes were to make the job "more approachable," they both made it more rigid and more unforgiving than ever before. Despair becoming instant was a band-aid fix slapped on because it was clear that they didn't test out how instant paradox-fire would feel. Or, more likely, whoever was in charge of it always spent firestarter to extend the phase, as opposed to how every other person on the planet uses it to avoid an F3 cast.

[Chocolotte]

That wasn't the reason for the change. Despair refreshes AF, so you just cast flare-star afterwards. The reason was that Paradox-fire going from fire-1's cast-time to instant-cast meant that AF was refreshed 2.5s earlier, in a GCD - rather than just as the GCD was ending. This meant that instead of 15s to fit in 3 F3s and Despair, you now had 12.5. As a result, the recommendation was generally to do 4x F4 -> P-F -> 2x F4 -> Despair -> FS, making the second phase exceedingly tight. If you had to refresh Thunder or avoid overcapping on Polyglot, you would also need to burn a swift or triple to fit Despair or otherwise use Firestarter to keep AF rolling.

Thats basically what I meant, and it was also a welcome change for high end players because it opened up alot of allowance for non-standard
How else you interpret what I meant? Anyways, that isnt the main topic for the day