I commend everyone that mains Black Mage.

Dropping Enoch only makes you lose F4/B4 and a 5% damage buff. So really in AF3 your Fire spells were already getting buffed by 80%. Enoch jumped it up to 85%. Once you get a handle on your timers it becomes very difficult to drop Enoch and even if you do most cases it isn't a big deal.

The only time I guess it matters is strict fights like Extreme/Savage content. Other then that it's fine.

Gets easier as you get familier with content. in weeping city for example when the first boss tosses up those red markers you get to know you have like 4 casts till she goes underground. so often end up cutting my fire rotation short to ensure I get enochain refreshed.

if you have to move swiftcasting blizzard 4 can help. and sometimes just stand still finish your cast and aetherial manipulate tha foo1 ouuta that aoe.

I've often thought simply allowing sure cast to let you cast the next spell while moving would help so very much in keeping rotations up

Black Mage is a wonderful job, but Enochian is extremely frustrating. Moving isnt too much of an issue if enochian is not concerned. And then on top of that u also have interruptions which Surecast does not fix. Sigh, why does Surecast exist? Its about as useful as the Bind Status Effect.

Want to practice keeping endochian up run astrochemical research facilty you'll have a bit of dodging to do with the last boss ;)

I'd say most people who give up on the BLM isn't due to the difficulty of the rotation, it's a simple enough one. It's the application of that rotation, especially in entry-level 4 man content, where your targets are often sniped away by melee or you're forced to move a specific distance (not just moving, but moving to grab a totem then moving away, 3-5 seconds a haul) and targets going invincible etc. And the timing of these shifts tend to change with how good the party is. Tanks not pulling a lot or pulling inconsistently can often also make Enochian drop off.

Raid targets are on the other hand generally much easier because each target lives longer and there's plenty of time to refresh Enochian. The frustration is mostly in 4-man.

mained BLM until very recently, the umbral/stral thing doesn't bother me, the timers or rotation doesn't bother me, even not moving, used to that as well. However, when you look at the new HW mechanics - bosses dissappearing, nothing targetable for 12-15 seconds, random aoes, mechanics when you're supposed to stop and turn away, or run about and click things, they are robbing you of half your enochian, then making you wait out the cool down on top of it. It is also a dog when doing new content, and even if you know the fight backwards you're always refreshing it too soon just too keep it up so you can spend 15 seconds running about or thumb twiddling. Then there's the inevitable - whatever you cast blizzard IV on just dies .1 seconds before it hits - over and over. One frustration after the other.

I've often wondered if SE didn't have the idea in mind BLMs should get proper heal support through aoes, and not be expected to deal with the running about mechanics in some instances - when you think about it, say a BLM can do 6 fire IVs averaging 15-16k each - that's at least 90K knocked of the boss which is nothing to sneeze at, so it makes sense tactically to me. Seems better to do 90K (or more) damage rather than running around clicking things or dodging every single medium aoe hit. It's not something I expect to ever catch on, though.

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Originally Posted by Kerii

This was posted over on reddit and is pretty relevant to the topic. You'll need some extra spell speed and pie to do these reliably if you're a fresh 60, but they aren't very hard to master. This isn't really different from the Back in Black guide, but is probably less likely to make your eyes glaze over.
https://i.redd.it/khuv9euallkx.png

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Wow thank you for this image!

The entire point OF BLM is heavy damage at the cost of movement. BLM is the highest DPS if it doesn't have to move & is played optimally. Even if it moves quite a bit it will still be AT LEAST on par with ranged DPS.

Anyway I enjoy BLM since it's great single target & multi target, perfect for dungeons.