BLM Sleep Fix

[daespinoza]

Can you guys get sleep back in working order? It would be nice to use for canceling casts, like stun or silence. Make it insta-cast, and just have the sleep timer go from 30 seconds to 6 seconds (same idea as Holy). Not only will we get back an underrated spell, but we can finally have raid utility.

[Ayanumi]

If sleep cancelled casts like an interupt you would still never use it, tanks and physical ranged (if ever necessary) already have that covered and dont have to worry about clipping themselves. A this point it would be better to either remove it or upgrade it to another skill.

[daespinoza]

Agreed. But interrupts are all the rage these days, and it's necessary to interrupt the Eden adds. If you somehow manage to get an all caster group, it would make it nearly impossible to do, and takes away the "play the role you want" mentality. It would just be nice if sleep for BLM and Repose for Healers could also act as interrupts, in case there are no melee/ranged DPS.

I guess my point is, the action "sleep" is basically useless outside of solo instances, and would be nice to see them give it some uses. And to your point of clipping, that why make it an insta-cast oGCD. BLM already deals with oGCD casts in between hard casts. I definitely don't want it to become a necessity that casters HAVE to sleep-interrupt or anything, but just allowing it to can give a lot of flexibility as far as party comp, regardless of party bonuses. I suppose it could break the game in other ways, but one could always wish.

[Neela]

Actually it was one of my favorite skills in the Eureka decade... I’m sad that that elementals and status effects play such a little role out of sidecontent like Eureka and now Blu. I like the concepts of Blue debuffs combo concept an wish stati would play a greater role in generel.. : /

[daespinoza]

I loved it in general, especially when I got the sleep AoE. I (for whatever reason in my early BLM days) thought it made me a god. Looked forward to the day I can make an entire mob "sleep with me", lol. Then, thinking I'm super clever, try to use it (pre-50 dungeon) when I see the tank is low on HP, and the WHM was having issues healing. Got chastised hard about being a shitty BLM that day.