Black Mage Revamp

No one is talking about the Black Mage Revamp. I'm pretty excited I can't wait to be a Specialize in Thunder magic!
(At least that's what I assume the below changes mean)

Edit:
I had trouble finding where the translation came from orginally as mine was from another person,
Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/2q16p3/imgur_black_mage_changes_slides/

Note: Apparently this was just a suggestion from a dev to Yoshi-P according to the source, sorry for getting everyone's hopes up (I was pretty excited myself when saw the flowcharts)



https://i.imgur.com/kh1soDQ.jpg

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The first slide talks about the current system, and how they want to expand on it to give people more options.

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http://i.imgur.com/5JU7jcm.jpg

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Slides 2 and 3 discuss new potential (non finalized) methods they're thinking about to allow Black Mages more flexibility in their options. 枯渇 means "to dry up", and 回復 is "to recover". It refers to 氷属性 (ice attribute) and 雷属性 (thunder attribute) as abilities or stances that you can set to use different sorts of rotations.

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http://i.imgur.com/ONT60S3.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/TPAR7HV.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/irFPHyh.jpg

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ａ）武器や防具、敵の防御力、黒魔に属性攻撃・防御±直を設定（必然的にダメージ計算直に反映） We are creating a system wherein things like weapons and armor, enemy defense strength, etc will be affected by black mages using the Attribute System.
ｂ）武器のチェンジで攻撃属性が決定される（黒魔限定じゃなかったｗ） With this change, Black Mages have more choice in the types of attacks they can do
ｃ）黒魔のＭＰ回復は前述のような組み合わせて今までどおりに実行可能（エアロやストーン、ウォーターも使えるとイイね！） For black mages, regenerating MP should become smoother when combined with above mentioned formulas.
ｄ）属性マテリアの使い道が増えそうな予感 We have the feeling that the use of elemental attribute materia is going to increase!

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Wow if there is elemental specialization I'll be dusting off my BLM!

Making elemental attributes relevant?

I can dig it!

Hmm is this the Aetherial Wheel? Most excellent :)

As someone who mains a BLM this could get interesting. I love playing BLM but my number one gripe with it sometimes is how boring it is. A lot of the times I feel like I have no real effect on the outcome of the battle. There are times where my Apoc has helped a healer in my static survive a Flames with weakness on but outside of that and being a huge DPS cannon, I feel like my only contribution is damage. As much as I love BLM it gets kind of boring after awhile. Especially when the rotation is so clear and cut. Adding in some more things could make it more fun, as long as it's not something TOO complex.

I'm all for difficulty but I think long term they need to keep things in all jobs relatively simple if they want the general player base to continue playing. As long as these changes make it more interesting I'm all for it. Should be fun.

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Originally Posted by Jennika

Hmm is this the Aetherial Wheel? Most excellent :)

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No, the Aetherial Wheel is part of FC Crafting. This is something in the theoretical stages right now.

But still, I am excited for this!

I wonder if this will just help BLMs with making rotations more comfortable for them or will it actually affect damage? For example, will using Ice on Ifrit do more damage?

Ack!
/10notsureaboutthis

Well... from squinting at the slides some more, the rotations themselves look just like what we use now, but we would have the option to use blizzard or thunder instead of fire as our big damage move. And what refills mp as well as the dot is changed accordingly.

And if we go into each 'elemental stance' for certain fights like primals, then the damage would be higher...

Looks like the identical playstyle but you can cast different colour shit now lol

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Originally Posted by Jaykos

Looks like the identical playstyle but you can cast different colour shit now lol

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This part;

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We are creating a system wherein things like weapons and armor, enemy defense strength, etc will be affected by black mages using the Attribute System.

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Kind of makes it sound like they're reintegrating the Elemental Wheel to some degree, though. So rather than being stuck with Fire for pure DPS, Ice for MP recovery, Lightning for DoT, you can switch them around based on the enemy and your stats to maximize your DPS.

I'm hoping this means that you could effectively fight Ifrit as you currently do, but switching to Lightning (DPS) > Ice (MP) > Fire (DoT) will provide a slight increase in DPS.

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We have the feeling that the use of elemental attribute materia is going to increase!

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This made me laugh though; Not unless you start putting materia slots on endgame gear!
/crosses fingers