New Battle Mage Blows

I never said that. Them blowing has nothing to do with their damage, just their overall performance. After playing them and seeing here how shitty their non-Blow skills are, the class just... blows.

Erm, I don't play my Battle Mage all that often so I might be missing something, but isn't that how it's always been?

When training my Battle Mage, it's always been: Dark Chain -> strongest Blow move, sometimes use Twister for fun, maybe use Dark Gene once in a blue moon. I guess they did have Finisher to change things up a little way back when, but the Blow attacks were always worth spamming more than anything else.