Meleewalker to Meleetrail

[Lyth]

PCT is entirely responsible for BLM's current situation. The dev team wants to ensure that PCT gets used in raid content, which means that it needs to be unambiguously better than BLM. If the damage difference wasn't obvious, the tank-level raidwide mitigation tool should have been. We've seen them do this sort of thing before. It's certainly not done for job balance.

[Galvuu]

PCT is entirely responsible for BLM's current situation. The dev team wants to ensure that PCT gets used in raid content, which means that it needs to be unambiguously better than BLM. If the damage difference wasn't obvious, the tank-level raidwide mitigation tool should have been. We've seen them do this sort of thing before. It's certainly not done for job balance.

Naaah... SE is just really clueless. BLM could do 5k more adps and it'd still feel awful to play.
XIV has a history of baffling changes nobody asked for across many jobs. They just have no idea what they're doing.
Kaiten removal, the healer disaster of ShB, DRK getting gutted twice in a row, MNK losing it's GL and positionals, and the list could go on, but you get the idea.

[rewd]

PCT is entirely responsible for BLM's current situation. The dev team wants to ensure that PCT gets used in raid content, which means that it needs to be unambiguously better than BLM. If the damage difference wasn't obvious, the tank-level raidwide mitigation tool should have been. We've seen them do this sort of thing before. It's certainly not done for job balance.

This conspiracy theory could maybe (big maybe) make sense if there wasn't a balance patch scheduled with already announced BLM buffs.