Quote Originally Posted by Stupified View Post
I understand what SE was trying to do. Make SMN better AOE and worse ST to allow MNK and BLM to better compete single target.
I was under the impression the reason for Blizzard II to become CC, was to act more of a situational panic button for when you get surrounded rather than an actual AoE damage skill. Probably relevant to WHM/SCH and PvP... but pretty much worthless on a SMN since, again, they have Tri-Disaster for that.

The SMN's AoE potential will remain unchanged. The only difference is they just can no longer cleave Thunder across multiple enemies in-between using Bane or Shadow Flare.