Quote Originally Posted by RLofOBFL View Post
SMN needed a nerf. Plain and simple. It was doing more damage than SAMURAI in the 95 percentiles, being top dps. And it brought radiant shield/contagion & devotion. The BLM buff is going to add around 220 dps based on 95 percentile again. This will even out casters as is should be BLM > SMN > RDM, but will also most likely destroy SMN's already fragile place in any sort of meta.

On the other end they buffed MNK so much that it could replace MCH in the meta in triple melee friendly fights.
SMN's personal damage on FFlogs included Radiant Shield, and was overestimated.

There's also some issues with their DoT's being overestimated according to Nemekh.

Bard/Ninja/Dragoon and Machinist were all better classes.

Feel free to checkout Blackcat's raid dps tool if you want more context

While you are correct it would even out casters, it also firmly makes sure no caster is anywhere near optimal.