Where is the BLM nerf?

[UmJammerSully]

Why? Why is everyone going on about the damage that black mage does with two spells!? Two spells that are the same element? It's our only two spells and a half that do damage. Take that away and black mage has nothing.

What's your point? "Take away those spells and black mage has nothing"? Well, it does have those spells, and spamming them is incredibly effective and out-damages the hell out of all the other DD classes even with the MP issues BLM ocassionally faces. Though I've yet to see how DRG and MNK do after this hotfix.

Fire combo is also crazy effective for groups and pretty much lays waste to the mobs in raids, so even this "only 2 good spells" nonsense of yours is wrong.

"Just you wait until Ramuh hits the scene" is kind of a redundant thing to say, that's just one battle, what about all the content we're dealing with right now? Besides, the element wheels don't seem to have much purpose these days sadly. I don't see anyone exploiting Ifrit's supposed weakness to wind or Garuda's weakness to ice for example, thunder combo will always be the order of the day unless they make some heavy adjustments to the spell system.

The "Higher damage, lower defense" argument doesn't pan out at all either as BLM is usually way safer than MNK and DRG, so there's absolutely no added risk in being a BLM.

I share your sentiment that BLM lacks variety though, it would be nice if it had some of the stuff you listed so spamming thunder or spamming fire wasn't the sole purpose of BLM.

high damage, low defense.
- is this concept really that hard to understand?

high damage, rarely gets hit so low defense is a moot point.
- is this concept really that hard to understand?