Why is your class amazing?

Battle Mages. At first I picked up the job during Big Bang cause the skills looked really cool to me, plus the aura system was interesting.

Nowadays though

• Super tanky due to Blue Aura and Blood Drain. You pretty much never need potions for training, and it's relatively hard to die to bosses unless you screw up and get hit with like %hp dmg and cc like I do >.>
  
• Tons of avoid as well which is really nice.
  
• Your 170 Hyper is like the best one out there. Amazing range and damage.
  
• You can be kinda supportive as well due to Auras, which is pretty nice.
  
• Party Shield is nice.
  
• Lots of free crit.
  
• Reapers are the best minions you could ever have.
  
• You have both a grab and a rush skill.
  

I definitely agree with your points here. I chose to make a battlemage when they first came out because I also like their skills and also because they were the first (and still are) the only magician class in the game that doesn't have magic guard to rely on (and by extension has high HP).

Though I still do wish that they hadn't scrapped that one BaM revamp that a lot of people went apepomegranate over. I really liked the concept with the chain blow skills and I hope they bring that back to BaMs sometime in the future. That said, I also wish they could somehow make reapers more useful (or able to be summoned at all, rather) at bosses. Lastly 1 bad thing that I'm surprised they haven't apparently 'fixed' yet is AURA CASTING TIME. It's SO annoying when you happen to die and it takes 500000 years to recast auras (and last time I could use them, buff freezers don't help with this AT ALL since auras disappear after being dead for more than 1 second basically...) this is especially apparent at magnus.

Though, I swear BaMs are among the most tweaked class in the game. The majority of the time that multiple classes gets tweaked, BaMs seem to always also be on the list. Furthermore I don't recall us ever being nerfed during these skill rebalancings.