Quote Originally Posted by Leonus View Post
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A really good blm should know how to manage themselves in high movement fight and not be a liability. If they utilize manawall/manaward at the right time and use aetherial manipulate, they don't need to move around a lot. In pre-echo T8, BLM can do really close to or the same as melee DPS in that fight if they don't really have to do anything. Meanwhile, SMN's are all the way down there by a 60-80 dps gap, but of course this was with i110 gear. Even in T11, a slight movement fight, SMN does 40-70 dps lower than a BLM cause most of that is ST. You would think that SMN's can be closer in damage with how there's 3 nodes, but there's a risk to that since 2 adds need to be killed at about the same time.

If SMN and BLM should be tied in ST damage, I guess that would be ok, but BLM will still be superior in AoE damage, so there will still be an advantage of bringing BLM if a fight had some part to AoE at, like T12 and 13. But having the gap be closed or somewhat closer would be nice to see.