BLM Nerfs

I personally don't mind the aoe sleep nerf in the context of Feast. Haven't had any experience in frontlines, however. In Feast, occasionally I play blm when I'm sick of healing, and sometimes I wish I hadn't slept someone who was too close to the target I intended to sleep (which is normally the healer), thus placing unnecessary sleep dr. In NA, Primal more specifically, I only know of 2-3 really good blms, so seeing a blm in Feast is really rare compared to the JP servers. And since there were so few of us, a lot of people didn't know how to deal with a good blm and thus the "frustrations" brought upon them. Blm are scary when allowed to freecast, but unless you've actually played blm (in Feast) you will know how easy you are locked down, or conversely how easy it is to kill when you are not. Now I have to use Nightwing sparingly since it is our only aoe sleep. But like Miyu said, we still have freeze to immobilize multiple targets.

Blm is not an easy class to play in pvp imo, probably harder than all the other ranged, i dont mind the cc nerf but the thing is there was already alot of things people could do to counter blm cc (purify rotation on healer, stuns silence, knockbacks, focus blm) Blm played at full potential can be very scary but it also requires a high amount of skill and cooperation with the team, a team who doesnt listen to blm or a blm who doesnt tell the team what he is doing is a fail. So for this blm needs to keep an eye on CC DRs, call out when sleep is ready, watch the healer for peels, kite the meles plus what everyone does (adrenalines, boxes, medals, flow of battle). After the nerfs they made blm to depend even more on his teamates for kills, peels are weaker, dps will still train/LoS the blm so he cant do dmg, blm still will need to wear 2+ vit accesories to survive

The class is still ok but compared to a MCH right now, well i guess there are not so many top MCH in JP to make SE nerf them

JP plays as a team, which is why their blms are strong. NA plays YOLO, which is why mch is so strong.

The nerf was needed. In high level feast matches against a blm, the whole team needed to hold purify for their healer (which is about the most powerful thing possible, saying otherwise is ludicrous).

Blm still seems stronger than brd or smn played at a high level. Mch is definitely still going to be the NA soloq champ though. I think they are in a good place, mch is just a bit too powerful (can 2 shot someone and still have burst leftover to kill another person).

The main problem I had with Blm's before this patch was that the vast majority of them seemed incapable of balancing their CC with their Dps.

I don't play the job myself, so it's hard to criticize, but the thing I saw most often was Blm's who would openly sacrifice their dps for unnecessary CC. The healer would already be stunned or dead, but they'd be throwing pillows at people instead of trying to score kills. I get that they have (had?) an excellent CC tool at their disposal, but what good is it if it prevents the team from doing enough dmg to score points? I imagine War players might see this differently, as they can (somewhat) compensate for the diminished dps output of a sleep happy Blm, but I've seen too many sub-par dps numbers to give blm's the benefit of the doubt here. Normally, I'm opposed to most job nerfs, but I am honestly curious how this one will play out in the arena. Personally, I'm hoping to see higher dps outputs and more killing, but I'll reserve judgement until I see it in the arena ... that is, if/when queues pick back up again.

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Originally Posted by Chaelyn

Nightwing isn't the only way to get your LB off. Why does every BLM player forget that Freeze is a 1.5 second cast if you have AF3 lol.

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Shhhhhhhh or the crybaby's will get it nerfed too