Black Mage

[Lilyth]

This is exactly the mindset that most BLM mains are in right now, and it's very disheartening. There's less and less reasons to use this job in raids, the actual challenging content in the game.

But at the end of the day, we just want to throw fireballs, man.

We won't be throwing any more fireballs like this, not with any serious group at least. Casters are behind physical ranged DPS when it comes to total raid contribution and you can clearly see that when groups would rather bring a Bard and a Machinist instead of a single caster. Red Mage is still in an ok spot, but only because of its niche raise ability which is really useful when learning the fights during progression, and that's just enough to secure it a spot in a group. The new buffed Summoner is looking to be the same, they can also raise and will have a new AoE devotion to boost the party defense and offense.

Black Mage, on the other hand, is just a worse Samurai. Not looking good honestly.