Quote Originally Posted by Ianmaru View Post
to answer simply, its not fair that BLM has the 'option', while every other jobs dont. it makes BLM too 'special' as a job. its either make BLM fall in line with the other jobs, or make all the other (currently) 18 jobs have the option for their own kind of nonstandard play. and the former is the easier one to do.
Other jobs did have options! It is because of feedback like this that they no longer do, BLM just happens to be one of the last holdouts. They are still clearly capable of designing jobs in such a way, such as the EW MNK rework (which they are now bizarrely gutting too). Even Reaper has a lot of niche, "non-standard" optimisation techniques. Nobody is forcing you to play non-standard Black Mage, so if you don't want to then you don't have to. Please do not spoil the one remaining job that has that level of satisfaction for those who do though.