I tried to get back into Blm

And it failed, the class is just too stressful with eno, I hate it soo much cause it makes the class less fun dealing with it :(

Isn't BLM still kinda braindead? I mean, Spam F4, cast F1 at 3-4 secs depending on spell speed and timing, B3, B4, T2( or was it 1?) F3, repeat from beginning.

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Originally Posted by Thunda_Cat_SMASH

Isn't BLM still kinda braindead? I mean, Spam F4, cast F1 at 3-4 secs depending on spell speed and timing, B3, B4, T2( or was it 1?) F3, repeat from beginning.

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Its the added moving for mechanics thats frustrating on Blm, I have to stop a cast to move and at those times eno drops making me have to wait for 45s for it to come back loseing 30% of my dmg.

Managing buffs is something Yoshida specifically mentioned as needing to be trimmed (when they make jobs easier to play for the next expansion.) I personally really like what HW did to blm and you learn to manage timing your spells around moving the more you play and gain experience. Throw swiftcast in whenever you need to push a spell out quickly before a buff expires.

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Originally Posted by Thunda_Cat_SMASH

Isn't BLM still kinda braindead?

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It's not particularly hard - on a dummy. In a real fight? It can be quite annoying. It's like playing a Monk where missing a positional in the Opo-Opo, Raptor, Coeurl sequence causes Greased Lightning to not refresh.

3.4 feels like the most BLM friendly patch of HW so far. Boss jumps feel shorter and less frequent, random giant lava pools aren't thrown at you every time you pop Ley Lines, and when you do have to move it's not as far as it has been.

If you're having trouble with movements, just clip your eno rotation. Transpose to UI and swiftcast a blizz 4. It's better to lose dps for 2 rotations than have to wait 30+ seconds for eno to come off cd.

best to save thunder-proc's and swiftcast if you have to move
I also don't use swiftcast in the first rotation only the second rotation because the chain is shorter, by the time your have complted both rotation cycles Enc should be fully refreshed, ley lines also second rotation only.
My fire XIV recored is 16k per fire 4

Sophia Ex as a BLM is hell.

This is actually a factor in why I have accepted that I will only ever be super casual here. BLM, the class I chose in 2.0, got pretty stressful at end level Heavensward. Many of the dps classes are stressful to me, something about how the rotations are long, complicated and require precision. It doesn't sit right with me for whatever reason.

It's odd because in World of WarCraft I am part of a high end Mythic raiding guild and Mythics are by no means easy... But playing that game doesn't agitate me anywhere near as much.

That is the challenge of blm tho. on paper, the rotation can be mapped out fairly easily, but it can be quite a bit tougher in practice.

Learn the fights so you can plan out when to use/refresh enoch (phase changes dictate whether you'll want to reuse it completely when it comes off CD, or just refresh it). pre-position where will allow for the absolute minimum movement. work out which moves, if any, you can just take with wall/ward, they can eliminate some movement. when you have no choice, and HAVE to move, procs/swiftcast/AM are there to help, and again you should be planning on when these will be needed, and mapping out your CDs accordingly

blm is a lot of fun, but there's much more to it than just hammering out fire IVs. Sophia Ex is annoying, not really because of the movement, which you can get in any fight, but imo because of the phase pushes largely occurring at different times, it's hard to plan out your CDs.

My fire IV record is 22.5k. ast gave me a balance in a9s opener, I critted twice back to back for this amount, stole hate through QS, and quickly died lol

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Originally Posted by randysquirrel

blm is a lot of fun, but there's much more to it than just hammering out fire IVs. Sophia Ex is annoying, not really because of the movement, which you can get in any fight, but imo because of the phase pushes largely occurring at different times, it's hard to plan out your CDs.

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It's really not hard to plan out your CDs, you can tell when the phase pushes are coming based on the boss %. In fact, the only push I have seen that depends on that, is the Quasar right after the add phase, and again, you can tell if it's going to push that or not even before the add phase.

Manawall + SCH Deployment Aldo. works great on the Gnosis, allowing you to cast freely without having to worry about movement at all during the opener and later on into the fight when she does it again after Dischordant Damnation(assuming you have no vuln. stacks, otherwise it will stick knock you back even with Manawall+Aldo).

You can also cancel out the sliding with using AM at the right time, similar to how it was in Leviathan/Sephirot/A3S Washaways. It's really handy and allows you to cast faster than you would otherwise especially if you don't have a proc/swiftcast ready.

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Originally Posted by Pinkie_Pie

Its the added moving for mechanics thats frustrating on Blm, I have to stop a cast to move and at those times eno drops making me have to wait for 45s for it to come back loseing 30% of my dmg.

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Could just slidecast like a pro and if you have to move your bacon go throw out a Scathe or something or time up casts with when you need to move or use AM to warp to a bum.