Black Mage

[nugglets]

I'm not going to quote that huge wall of text above, but here's the thing: The "top 1%" or whatever you want to call those who do make their raid data publicly available are typically the ones who have maximized the potential of a job. You can agree with that, yes?

So if the maximum potential of all jobs shows your favorite job to be completely unfavorable compared to nearly(literally?) every other option, why shouldn't that bother you? As someone who is admittedly not a top 1% player, it still sucks to know every time I go into savage that I could be helping the group more by playing something else that I don't like. And as someone who is pretty damned hyped about a (hopefully) truly punishing challenge in Unending Coil this is even more relevant because a) finding a group who will even take a BLM is going to be difficult at best; and b) the entire time myself and my group are going to be thinking about how we would probably be progressing faster if I were playing something else.

No one is saying BLM is totally garbage and anyone who plays it at any level is a baddy and needs to feel bad. What we're saying is that there's no reason *not* to improve it's standing in the highest-tier of play, when things which are already favorable are being propped up further. And it appears that SE only listens when people complain, so if we don't say something, nothing will change. So it's time to say something. =)