I walk through Jeuno and I see Posers. Igqira Weskit, Wizard Petasos wearing posers. How many of you angsty Hume M character model players with names such as Deathkill, Bloodgod, Rottenmessiah, etc. found yourselves shunned and without party invites as DRK/WAR/SAM/DRG/THF/MNK? How many, seeing those Black Mages who went before you for love and enjoyment of the arcane, seeing them reap fast experience points in Manaburn parties, seeing them earn millions of gil very quickly in KSNM battles, decided to throw your lot in with them? How many, with the changes to ranged attack damage calculations, threw down your bows and arrows, traded Fransiscas for elemental staves?
Look what you've done. BLM is now widely considered a free ride to 75, a class that doesn't require you to know anything about your job in a party, because you don't need to do anything but manaburn from 50-75, and beyond! Every no-patience, instant-gratification-wanting malcontent tool has picked up the BLM job and fucked it all the way to endgame and a slot in their local HNMLS.
Manaburn is now widely thought to be the only reliable way to do multiple KSNM battles. Everyone thinks there's a pot of gold waiting at the end of their BLM career so that they can pimp out their aforementioned melee job. Well guess what. BLM gear will now cost you an arm and a leg (and it was never cheap), and all those Haubergeon +1s and Flame Rings you may buy with your Desert Swarm spoils will go to rot on your mannequinn while your LS forces you to go as BLM to each and every event, a job that you now despise, because ask any 75 BLM, the job is boring as all shit once you pass lvl 73. I hope you enjoy Black Mage whoring you as you've whored it.