BLM needs more damage

[Zerathor]

Compelling.

Why should the Black Mage get it then? Shouldn't a support oriented ability instead go to Red Mages?

This is about blm not carrying enough weight, not rdm. Black mage in past games were slightly debuff oriented anyway, so it's not a stretch to apply magic vuln to a target.

If rdm got the magic vuln, the issue would still lie in the fact that smn does slightly more damage still while having a raise, leaving blm as the least valuable dps job still.

[Zerathor]

Plus sam still gets to have a slashing vuln on target, so if anything blm applying permanent magic vuln is what we should have had from the start of stormblood.

[Dualgunner]

Plus sam still gets to have a slashing vuln on target, so if anything blm applying permanent magic vuln is what we should have had from the start of stormblood.

By that logic both RDM and BLM should get magic vuln up that would overwrite each other, just like how SAM and NIN do.

I'm not particularly opposed to this.

[Kabooa]

This is about blm not carrying enough weight, not rdm. Black mage in past games were slightly debuff oriented anyway, so it's not a stretch to apply magic vuln to a target.

If rdm got the magic vuln, the issue would still lie in the fact that smn does slightly more damage still while having a raise, leaving blm as the least valuable dps job still.

Yes, but if Red Mage got the buff, then Black Mage in turn would be prime to receive a personal damage boost, while also benefitting from Red mage bringing a vulnerability.

It'd be a double win for Black mages, gaining the benefit of a vulnerability while also gaining the benefit of personal damage to maintain its status quo.