Quote Originally Posted by IllidanFang View Post
Black mage has long held a below-average win rate in higher tier matches, and because they can be easily countered in custom matches, they often go unused. To help remedy this without making the job too powerful, executing Soul Resonance will once again grant players the effect of Apocatastasis. We believe the added defense of this effect will help players capitalize on the use of their limit break.

Translation: yoshi p didnt see his main in tourney so hes buffing it so ppl use it.

my question is, why advertise the rework back in 6.1 to be casual and for everyone
but tune the balance and make decisions based off of tournament play?

"custom matches" just say you balancing it off ccrc.

and people white knight these devs. thats wild. its ok bros maybe in 7.0 theyll fix the uncounterable buttons
If they actually used CCRC as a direct balancing scale, WHM would no longer have Imp and NIN would get nerfed again.

That said, trickle-down balance is a thing - generally an adjustment intended for the top level of play is going to matter down the ladder as well. Likewise certain changes wont matter at lower levels as they might not make proper use of them in the first place.

The BLM change seems to smell of bias or so we can tell ourselves, but let us not be another community that shits all over the place because a single live tournament happened and a change happened later that may start conspiracy theories PLEASE.