Easy Black Mage improvements!!!

Well if we need to keep some of the old spells in the 3.0 rotation, how about the following:

Every successful cast of F4 gives you a stacking 10s buff called "Sparks".
If you have 2+ stacks of Sparks, you gain the permanent effect of Firestarter.
Using the permanent Firestarter consumes 2 stacks of Sparks.
Sparks can stack up to 4 times, subsequent use of F4 refreshes the 10s duration.

The idea here (other than the inherent potency increase), would be to create a reliable forced proc system. Sounds odd doesnt it?
You cast 2x F4, and now you can use an instant, no cost F3. Since it is instant, and F3, a small movement will not cause you to outright lose AF3.
OR
You can cast 2x F4, F1, 2x F4, and have 2 Firestarters banked for an upcoming movement intensive phase.

So yes, this would end up being an ST dps gain, and it does not address the issue of losing Enochian if you cannot get B4 off, but it helps with maintaining the Fire portion of the rotation.

Hell, since we're making a new forced-proc-stack mechanic, then we could not use Firestarter to keep dps the same.
Have every stack of Sparks reduce the cast time of Fire, just F1, by 2s per stack. Casting F1 costs you 1 stack.
This way casting F1 at 1 stack takes 1.5s, but you still get the full 2.5s GCD, so it is not a dps gain.
Casting F1 at 2 stacks results in an instant F1, providing more mobility, and lets you reapply the AF3 buff in a much more reliable manner.

I just became a lv 60 BLM a few days ago and after doing some EX dungeons, I have to say that it really is not very fun at all. Granted, I'm still inexperienced with the new rotation, but I think I'll stick to my SMN for now when it comes to casting.

The challenge of the BLM back in 2.XX was all the aoes you had to dodge ... now you have to deal with that while maintaining enochian. I feel like it's such a dps loss if you have to dodge aoes while trying to cast F4 but then have to B3 and then B4 to extend enochian.

While other jobs have timers to deal with, BLM probably has the strictest/ least forgiving due to the cast times of each spells + the 10s limit of F3 and then enochian

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Originally Posted by Kenji1134

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Spark reminds me more of lightning than fire. Burning Embers, clearly.