Quote Originally Posted by Corosar View Post
I just recently realized something rather mindblowing when i thought about it.

I see the community constantly complaining about summoners wanting physick to be useful. to be honest. For the longest time i thought that they had somewhat a point since i didn't have experience with other classes but on thought of class abilities and spells. i came to the realization.

Out of every class in the game. Only blackmage is the one that DOES NOT have a self healing ability of some kind.

To people that say DPS should not have a heal. all classes have them.
-Disciples of war have second wind. Some others even have bloodbath which also heal themselves.
-Redmage has Vercure
-Summoner has a (Mind attuned) physick and now Pheonix
-Blue mage.... is bluemage
-Healers be healers
-Hell even the tanks have abilities that heal.

This kinda makes the removal of Drain as one of the things that makes black mage completely different.

I actually argue.. That Drain should have been buffed and given solely to blackmage. Or one of their abilities modified to add a vampiric effect or some sort. Bring them up so they can too be self reliant.

And yea i want Arcanist_Physick to be Int based. But i think the black mage should get something for themselves too. Sure they have a shield. but that is on a 2 minute cooldown. They are the ones most deserving of a heal ability.
Phoenix looks like it might be o.k. but I havent gotten there yet, im sure someone can confirm if it makes a difference, it looks like it would give more than physick if it isnt mnd based for sure, but it is a hot, it is aoe as well. I agree with Drain though, buffed, it IS a Black Magic spell from previous FF. I see no reason why it cant be a BLM spell, for BLMs only.