Quote Originally Posted by HikariKurosawa View Post
If such a captivating and popular theme is held hostage and made into a niche job(objectively true when you look at the number of black mage players pre-rework) because of mechanic design, then honestly the entire concept of the job has failed the fantasy of the game entirely and needs to be reworked. The level of entitlement the oldheaded black mages in this community had is insane and honestly, thank god they finally betrayed their interests.

I don't care what you think or what your perspective is because what you desire is against the nature of mmorpgs entirely when you think about them the right way.

Hopefully you get something like chronomancer in the future that can be based entirely around managing timing and timers, dots, whatever it is. You can get a raid buff called hastaga, and you can stop complaining about mechanics again. It can have a fast phase and a slow phase, and you can constantly worry about a timer running out, because stress is good right? We all play games to be stressed out right? The job gauge can literally be the sands of time running out, which can be fleshed out even further by one side being fast, one side being slow, with hastaga buffing both sides and making the slow fast, the fast instant. That way people will know what the job is really based on and never get it confused or worry about it changing. At least chronomancer is thematically related to timers and also wouldn't have mainstream appeal so they have a lot more freedom to play with the job design.

Black mage is not that job and should have never been that job. Your opinion is bad and wrong. The fact that you equate themes to visuals too, you're just out of touch with RPG. I don't think you care about the RPG part of mmoRPG at all. You're just here for the gameplay.
It's kinda funny talking about entitlement when you're pretty much saying that all jobs(at least, all "cool" jobs) should be made braindead to appeal to you specifically while people wanting more complexity in their job should just go screw themselves.