Don't you think Heaven's Hammer is impractical with a 70 second cooldown? (or whatever it is now, I don't know anyone who's bothered to max it). Paladins don't mind because Blast and ACB are both usable.
It wouldn't be hard to make magician skills match up with other classes without completely owning everybody else. If Chain Lightning was ~2x as strong maxed and Ice Demon was coupled with a Lightning Demon (for 15 SP each I guess) and Ifrit wasn't hell of slow, it wouldn't be necessary to use Ultimates to train as well as other classes, and maybe Magicians would take skill instead of sitting in 1 spot with HB+HS mules. I realize there's not a whole lot of skill required to play MS, but when 3rd job Priests did bosses they actually had to struggle to keep their spot in the party. With Genesis, it doesn't matter who the Bishop is - all of them can spam a single key and repot, and their matk is pretty much irrelevant because they start to 2hko very early (and 2hko is already enough to keep up with spawn rates, 1hko saves a bit of money).
How about for a Bishop skill, make the summon Dragon a lot more intelligent, and more powerful. If it had a Heal type skill, both in casting speed and elemental type (hurts undead, heals players, very fast cast rate), but it dealt its damage intelligently (only heal partied players when they need it, otherwise attack the same mobs the player is using its regular attack or its heal attack, whichever does more damage) and had a longer range to stray from the player (ie full screen range, flies fast) then it would be quite powerful.
Oh, and add a little menu for it like pet looting now has, so you can set it to ignore healing certain party members or classes (ie Dark Knights).
That leaves the Bishop free to use all their other supporting skills while still dealing damage and healing the party, and if they can still cast Genesis every 20 seconds it's not useless, especially to high levels who can 1hko with it.
It wouldn't be hard to make magician skills match up with other classes without completely owning everybody else. If Chain Lightning was ~2x as strong maxed and Ice Demon was coupled with a Lightning Demon (for 15 SP each I guess) and Ifrit wasn't hell of slow, it wouldn't be necessary to use Ultimates to train as well as other classes, and maybe Magicians would take skill instead of sitting in 1 spot with HB+HS mules. I realize there's not a whole lot of skill required to play MS, but when 3rd job Priests did bosses they actually had to struggle to keep their spot in the party. With Genesis, it doesn't matter who the Bishop is - all of them can spam a single key and repot, and their matk is pretty much irrelevant because they start to 2hko very early (and 2hko is already enough to keep up with spawn rates, 1hko saves a bit of money).
How about for a Bishop skill, make the summon Dragon a lot more intelligent, and more powerful. If it had a Heal type skill, both in casting speed and elemental type (hurts undead, heals players, very fast cast rate), but it dealt its damage intelligently (only heal partied players when they need it, otherwise attack the same mobs the player is using its regular attack or its heal attack, whichever does more damage) and had a longer range to stray from the player (ie full screen range, flies fast) then it would be quite powerful.
Oh, and add a little menu for it like pet looting now has, so you can set it to ignore healing certain party members or classes (ie Dark Knights).
That leaves the Bishop free to use all their other supporting skills while still dealing damage and healing the party, and if they can still cast Genesis every 20 seconds it's not useless, especially to high levels who can 1hko with it.