Chad Mages What else would you want right now for our class

[Shurrikhan]

So you want to hamfist in an ability that's dead to the community for a technicality, in lieu of an option like, say, just patching Flare to actually be affected by Aspect Mastery so you still have Umbral Hearts after a Cold Flare (which I think we can agree is a massive oversight that it doesn't already)?

Neither option should come in lieu of the other. There's no point in adding and then leaving a skill that has zero place past level 56. Though, neither do I like that a seemingly obvious use of the another skill is exempt on a technicality. Both are awful.

Are you aware of the difference that that 17 levels makes? That's all of the post-ARR content, the entirety of Heavensward and most of Stormblood, for a first-time leveler that's nearly a month and even for someone with Armory bonus that could be weeks. Compare that to the gap from 35 to 50, which is like... A day? Three tops?
Not to mention how incredibly disjointed it is to get a spell you use for 14 levels, ignore for 17 and then recover for 12 more.

I'd rather avoid both gaps, but, yes, I'd certainly take 15 quickly-progressed levels over 17 of the slowest, especially if taking, leaving, and then again taking it.