Quote Originally Posted by Katie_Kitty View Post
I don't think there's anything "broken" about BLM. The past two expansions have been like a wet dream for people who want to play Black Mage. The job has simultaneously gotten easier to play and more powerful at every step along the way. Hell, square even intentionally broke the meta and gutted support classes just to justify black mage's existence and now we have a situation where powerful jobs are doing so much personal DPS that you can't even justify bringing any support classes because the rDPS they provide does not even come close to making up for the difference. They even created a new support class (Dancer) built around the idea of buffing a single powerful job to allow them to do insane amounts of damage.. And they reworked Astrologian in a way that means its entire purpose is to primarily buff single players at a time, they don't even have the option of spreading cards anymore. Literally everything about Shadowbringers has been built from the ground up in a way that appears to be tailor-made specifically to make Black Mage the most powerful and desirable job in the game. That's insane.
Black Mage is a dev favorite and it shows. Even when it isn't "meta" it often gets problems addressed with changes to its existing kit before they add new actions case in point, they just tied enochian to AF/UI in Stormblood which let you refresh it with Transpose instead of giving it something stupid like Riddle of Earth, and in Shadowbringers they made the Freeze changes retroactive rather than something earned in the leveling process. If they do have to make a fix with a new skill, the skill is always unbelievably good like Triple Cast for movement or 2x Xenoglossy for movement or burst.