Can we just take a moment to talk about Black Mage?

I love playing my black mage. It's fun to find spots to get rotations done without going splat. Some boss fights don't afford those kind of opportunities much but other boss fights do. I think the trick is to save your triple cast for moments where you need to be mobile in order to find the next spot to plant on, without losing your rotation.

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Originally Posted by Payotz

And we're free to disagree with that opinion. Your ideas essentially goes against BLM. You're asking for a new caster. You're asking for a mix of SMN with BLM aesthetics.
If you haven't read the mountains of valid arguments in this thread, I suggest you do. Everything you've described is essentially why we play BLM, from the meaningful rotation choices to the high risk and reward playstyle.

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Valid arguments and legitimate angry post against the OP. The OP is also expressing an opinion. There's no need to attack them, or myself for that matter. Telling us to git gud when I already play BLM in savage content is counter-productive.

At this point all I want is a training mode for savage. Making 7 other people suffer as you deal with learning optimal mobility (Through a lack of rotation-allotted mobility) is pretty rough. Disheartening really.

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Originally Posted by Stachiko

Valid arguments and legitimate angry post against the OP. The OP is also expressing an opinion. There's no need to attack them, or myself for that matter. Telling us to git gud when I already play BLM in savage content is counter-productive.

At this point all I want is a training mode for savage. Making 7 other people suffer as you deal with learning optimal mobility (Through a lack of rotation-allotted mobility) is pretty rough. Disheartening really.

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Opinions I can argue against. "Just my opinion" is not an excuse to be safe from criticism. We're free to criticize and discuss your opinions as much as you're free to post in them.
Telling them to git gud is literally the only answer we can give him considering he/she's been glossing over our reasonings behind why we think the suggestions are dumb.
OP's been flip flopping between "oh I see BLMs are bad, oh BLMs aren't designed with the game encounters, oh BLMs have too many timers, oh BLMs have actual cast times, oh it's too hard to play BLM" and we've been explaining multiple times why:

1. A person being bad at a job doesn't mean the job is bad.
2. BLM has movement tools to help with movement, you just have to plan it
3. Which gives it decision making, a factor that is removed from a LOT of jobs in the game
4. Almost like they're casters
5. Git gud.

Nobody cares if you play BLM in Savage-level encounters. You can literally play BLM in a savage level encounter by stepping into P1S and afking. Nobody cares about how skilled you are, or if you even play BLM or not.
What we care about are that these ideas will make the only fun job in the game less fun, and less satisfying and will ruin it. The ideas go against BLM, its identity and playstyle.
It's the same thing as asking for BLM to turn into SMN, when we already have SMN-like job design for the rest of the jobs, and BLM is the only job aside from BLU that has some semblence of complexity.

"Just my humble opinion" is not a shield. I will still call you out if I think your suggestions are dumb, which I think they are.

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Originally Posted by VentVanitas

If anything, the game needs another hard caster like BLM. It would make a perfect ratio of two dedicated casters and two mobile ones.

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This 100% now that SMN is just the 4th physical ranged in everything but name. There are only 2 casters in the game, and the entire gimmick of 1 of them is that they only have to cast half the time.