I am pretty sure they will change or revert the AOE changes, everytime I do expert and there is a black mage, they still use HF2 several times before flare, the issue is a casual player won't know that the changes made hf2 useless and the optimal thing to do is cast 2 flares and call it a day, either if you are new BLM player or someone who didn't read the notes you will use HF2 for AOE, because well, it makes sense right? but the reality is that hf2 is the most useless spell right now lol.