Predict some Magician changes.

As stated, mages originally had certain uniqueness. Priests would party with DKs at Himes, then join parties at Skeles or Newties. F/P mages would mist, and I/L mages would attack more. All 3 were kinda sucky overall, but they had a different gameplay.

Then 4th job came, which made all mages just ultimate spammers. The whole concept of 4th job was based around ultimates, the rest of our skills were mostly filler. A cool summon and some other attacks which weren't really that important. Our ultimates were everything, so important that mastery books costed hundreds of millions of mesos.

Big Bang did stop the ultimate spamming... but they forgot that 4th job was designed around ultimates, so they left us with horribly designed skills like Big Bang, just increasing the damage in hopes that would compensate for the lack of ultimate spamming. Not to mention, 3rd job is horrible for all mages too, post-BB. A Bishop supporting is just lol exp, and you can't even mist properly now...

What mages really need is re-thinking the whole concept of the 3 jobs, and CHANGE the jobs, not just "patch" them. A simple patch isn't going to fix something that's horribly designed.