Quote Originally Posted by Alhanelem View Post
WHM/CNJ is not overpowered. It did not ever have the same capability to BLM in regards to nuking. Only in very specific situations was it particularly effective to use WHM/CNJ specifically for their damage spells. For the most part they existed to facilitate solo leveling.
If I may interject here. When I played whm/cnj in 1.21+, clerical stance was a GREAT equalizer. I can do decent damage (not as much as my thm with all the buffs unless I'm using an element that a mob is weak against.) but I couldn't heal myself to save my life... literally... So, given the down time of casting and recasting clerical stance, I had to pick and choose (sometimes, to my death) when I wanted to nuke and when I wanted to heal. My solo strategy with whm/cnj (cnj, mostly.I used some archer skills to keep me alive from time to time.) was to blow as much mp in damage as I can before my stoneskin wore off. Not exactly a good strategy for a nuking job.

And correct me if I'm wrong, it sounds like the main concerns are that:
A) cnj/whm's shouldn't be able to replace thm/blm's for their role.
B) cnj/whm's shouldn't be the main DD.

So I'd like to suggest (because I did play thm/blm too) that maybe it's not that cnj/whm's are over powered, but that thm/blm's are underpowered. I mean, I think all people that played thm/blm can agree that burst and flare does a surprisingly small amount of damage for the mp that it costs. Would it satisfy both sides if they just made blm's more powerful? Or/and if they gave thm/blm's a good amount of debuffs?

And as for cnj's being main DD's, the truth is, unless the party is made up 4+ whm's, that's really not going to happen. We just don't have the mp pool to do that and heal. (Not to mention, it's a waste since we're more apt to healing than nuking anyways.)