Quote Originally Posted by Alistaire View Post

Especially when SMN is the easiest job for a BLM to gear up as an alt for those places where BLM doesn't shine. That's the real facepalm here. Well, aside from the fact the buffs incoming don't address the concerns that were voiced. It's kind of the lazy way out for SE to say "ok, black mages want to be more mobile, but for whatever reason we're against that, so we're gonna make it that when you do get your single-target spells off it'll be for more damage, we're sure that'll even things out," except that it goes overboard when there's nothing for them to worry about moving while casting.
Wouldn't it be a more lazy way out for SE to say "instead of balancing BLM to be as viable as other jobs in raid content, we expect those blms to just level up arcanist and run SMN on that content." C'mon man

I really think that you aren't considering the fact that the DPS gap is only going to increase as iLVL increases. If things stay the way they are, BLM will be a "speed run" only job for non-progression content