RDM the unwelcome DPS :(

[Kabooa]

I'm not certain how you consider a caster with that much disparity from the top caster job not weak. What percent difference do you believe is acceptable? I say that the percent difference should be about half of what it currently is and it would be acceptable. To me, the difference is huge.

Back when the difference was only 5-7%, Black mages were heavily excluded and not wanted by the general populace.

[Miminming]

No! back then BLM have far less mobility which make most of them a rather meh output, thats the biggest reason BLM is excluded too hard to use in full potencial...

Now? Farrr easier to use lots of teleport wider damage gap so that even a medicore BLM still have higher damage than the greater SMN/RDM

Btw right now in jpn server lots of party exclude RDM but not SMN again the reason is not RDM is bellow SMN in DPS in fact its a little above SMN right now, the reason they excluded RDM is lots of low player skill (at least they think so) and high death rate for RDM (proven by number from a certain site)

[Kabooa]

No! back then BLM have far less mobility which make most of them a rather meh output, thats the biggest reason BLM is excluded too hard to use in full potencial...

Now? Farrr easier to use lots of teleport wider damage gap so that even a medicore BLM still have higher damage than the greater SMN/RDM

Btw right now in jpn server lots of party exclude RDM but not SMN again the reason is not RDM is bellow SMN in DPS in fact its a little above SMN right now, the reason they excluded RDM is lots of low player skill (at least they think so) and high death rate for RDM (proven by number from a certain site)

Black Mages had very few mobility issues in Stormblood. Fact of the matter is they didn't bring enough damage to warrant not having a raise, until Alphascape.

Deny it all you want, but that's the simple truth.

Dump the raise and we'll talk.

[Miminming]

True for the until alphascape part, but still the main reason people exclude them is not just the lack of raise and dps difference (of course that too) its just too many meh BLM... and not everybody is as pro as you BLM mobility is kinda big issue on how hard the class was in stromblood... unlike now

[Kabooa]

True for the until alphascape part, but still the main reason people exclude them is not just the lack of raise and dps difference (of course that too) its just too many meh BLM... and not everybody is as pro as you BLM mobility is kinda big issue on how hard the class was in stromblood... unlike now

So we get to say Black Mages get excluded because they just weren't played well enough, but we don't get to say that about Red Mages and Summoners huh?

[Miminming]

Its the difference between floor and ceilling thats matter, SMN and RDM have lower floor/ceilling difference while BLM need to make it near the ceilling to make it worth and have far less people that are able to do it, or at least they give that kind of impression...

Edit: OH and lets not forget how a certain site count buff... everybody want more buff for themself than party dps...