BLM Changes Are Fantastic. The timers were so annoying. Thanks FFXIV team ! :)

[Wayfinder3]

But square explicitly taxes RDM for ver-raise because of how it affects savage balance

They explicitly say they balance the jobs around savage

The jobs damage is balanced around that in general, even if savage didn't exist. They value RDM's core utility in content extending pass savage. We've also seem them balance around this as well in the past. Content like the baldesion arsenal prevents you from raising from normal means which lets you know they looked at the idea of raising in general for that content and nerfed it to preserve it's difficulty. We also see this in criterion where certain classes have more passive stats to make up for the weird compositions that come from only having a light party since the game prior to that content didn't tune the classes for it.

[Aysin]

The jobs damage is balanced around that in general, even if savage didn't exist. They value RDM's core utility in content extending pass savage. We've also seem them balance around this as well in the past. Content like the baldesion arsenal prevents you from raising from normal means which lets you know they looked at the idea of raising in general for that content and nerfed it to preserve it's difficulty. We also see this in criterion where certain classes have more passive stats to make up for the weird compositions that come from only having a light party since the game prior to that content didn't tune the classes for it.

They have never, not once balanced things like potencies, or made changes class design based around content you referenced such as dungeons, criterion, 24man etc. That is the topic being discussed here. Since they changed the design and strength of multiple classes (but in this case we're looking at BLM) based on what effect savage and ultimate will have on gameplay, it falls to us to resort to resource and discuss around savage and ultimate. Otherwise, we are applying too many different standards, and the discussion will not go anywhere.

You can argue the limitations on raise and strength of party buffs in content, but they never designed the class design around this content and so we treat those as a one-off exception. Otherwise after the latest chaotic raid we would see nerf to NIN and SCH, and a buff to everything else. These are not the standard in balance and should be ignored.