Please don't ruin my favorite class... BLM

The changes from the live letting were very unsettling for BLM mains. I'm willing to give it an honest chance when it releases but the gameplay shown is not what I enjoy in the class, and I believe others feel the same.

As silly as it may sound, carefully planning my movement and casting spells that have long channel times for huge damage payoffs is the most fun part of the class. What we've seen in the live letter seems like it will be full of very short cast timed spells with lower damage.

This on it's own would be bad enough, but taking away the timers for astral fire, ice, thunderhead and fireIII proc exasperates the problem. I feel as if this new version of BLM will feel like a WHM spamming holy the entire fight. On retrospect, that would be a poor comparison because WHM would manage a DOT, lily casting and damaging OCD's. WHM's damage rotation might even be more complex than ours with these new changes.

The dev's have earned enough good will that I'm willing to admit I was wrong should the changes retain the identity of the class and remains fun. I cannot help but be worried, and I want to express my disappointment so that someone will hear. I'm pretty invested in the game, so I don't want to say something extreme like I'll unsub or quit the game or whatever, but ruining black mage could be a decision that influences me to do so.