Black Mage, not a great DD anymore?

[Gukai]

What you've said is correct on alot of accounts, about the new spells being MP-drains, and the aspect of drawn out fights.

The only thing any of us can do is make the most of every situation. When you're idle, have on all your refresh gear, including the weapon, and have refresh casted on yourself. When you're nuking go for the epeen always. I'm not saying to AM2 all the time - stick with the tier 3 and 4 but build up your blm to be lethal so those lower tier spells are brutal and you save MP. In the end, you'll find the mob looking hungrily at you and as you feel the jaws of death clamp around you when Mana Wall wears out you can close your eyes and smile... until you remember you forgot reraise. But ah well

[Babekeke]

you can close your eyes and smile... until you remember you forgot reraise. But ah well

QFT!

Stupid 10 char rule grrr!

[Alderin]

Mythic BLM staff still outperforms the magian staves. So no, not all the "legendary" weapons are terrible.

[Raksha]

Mythic BLM staff still outperforms the magian staves. So no, not all the "legendary" weapons are terrible.

No it doesnt.

Unless you mean while using Elemental Seal.

http://www.bluegartr.com/threads/103...=1#post4705220

[Mojo]

A good BLM can actually outperform any kind of 'Fell Cleave' that melee jobs can do for a variety of reasons. I've been able to net 200K+ EXP/hour on my BLM completely solo. The DD capabilities of the job differ widely depending on what you're fighting, and also there are upsides and downsides for every kind of DD. Rating them on raw DD potential doesn't always work.

[Nawesemo]

.......... I get what your saying, or have a different take of it.

We're not able to be as Lazy as we once were and still preform as well.

or... that we actually have to "try" to out parse our friends during the fights.

I get nervous when I see SOMETHING like....


Nawesemo starts to casts Blizzard IV
XXX hits Xyz for 400 dmg
XXX criticals for 800 dmg
Nawesemo casts blizzard IV
Xyz takes 2900 dmg
XXX hits Xyz for 400 dmg
XXX hits Xyz for 400 dmg
XXX Criticals for 800 dmg
XXX WS's for 2400!! O.O
Nawesemo starts to casts thunder IV
XXX hits Xyz for 400
XXX hits Xyz for 400
Nawesemo casts thunder IV
Xyz takes 2900...

I do love seeing my Crits , but .. .:/ sadly I see them maybe 1/40 casts...

But yes we do have to work alot harder and muuuuch more careful (thank you enmity douse) to be as effective, and get our E peens on against our DD brothers, ..... ( f'in blue mage makes me SICK!!).... it shouldn't be like that though, ... we should ALWAYS be able to kill ourselves via one nuke's dmg in my honest opinion (as in our tier 5 lines need to be doing 5k outside abyssea under the right conditions against NM's (cerebrus, etc..)

(keep in mind my numbers are totally f'in out of my @ss and no particular mob nor dd in mind, (i think they allll got much more powerful than we got as far as increase in strength, my blm pride still insists we "can" outparse with the right support but, can't sustain our output vs, enmity ....despite our OVERWHELMING superiority

[Bubeeky]

what kills me is how little the supposed elemental weaknesses matter....Blizz V will ultimately do as much or more damage than Water V against that NM Cerby in Altepa, even though supposedly fire is strong versus ice and weak to water >_> this so needs to be adjusted

[Infidi]

Didn't SE say they were adjusting some of the nms ele resistance/weakness because they were jacked up or something?