Black Mage

[Llugen]

That is not "closed minded" thinking, that is verbatim exactly what happened. I've been saying that BLM isn't going to reflect its role (high damage no utility) since the beginning of 4.0 because I read what Eirene Snow wrote and Tsundere Imouto (with whom I work closely) and tested it myself and saw that the power was ALREADY creeping.

Classes are to be balanced at the highest levels of play, not the average levels of play. So tons of SMNs had no idea how to play their job which is why they wanted/needed buffs so badly. Now it's just insane. Should RDM get significant single target damage buffs, it will only further put BLM behind as "the strongest with the least utility". This is logic, not closed mindedness.