BLM changes (opinions)

Am I the only black mage who isn't happy about the enochian change? Like...triple cast is AWESOME but enochian was much easier to handle when you had 30 seconds to refresh instead of 12. My stats got killed too and my spell speed suffered with the new gear, so that may be part of it. But I used to never have trouble managing enochian and now I'm dropping it all the time.
Anyone else having this? I could just suck, which is fine. I think I'll be switching to RDM since I actually like the rotation from what I've seen of it.

curious of other people's opinions though.

What level are you? Managing enochian is now managing your AF/UI uptime. Its actually easier now imo, it can never drop and if youre hurtin for time hit transpose to get another 13s reprieve.

Blm is really strong now, craaazy good aoe (though it gets weird) and ST is almost samurai tier if not better if we do not move.

Leylines having a 90s recast lining up with triple is a massive boon when weaved with swift cast.

Only thing I don't like is the job UI. Wish there was an option to revert it back to displaying stuff as buff icons. It's clunky and takes up a lot of space on my screen.

You can shink it to almost nothing and place it elsewhere

I'm only level 63 but I prefer it so far

I personally think the BLM got buffed... and that its still very powerful now. (Not that it wasn't before)

However we were mislead as to how Enochian actually worked. I was supposedly alwayson. Supposedly we were going to be able to cast Fire IV at will (after appropriate stacks), but that's not how it works. You still have to be in Enochian, and maintain stacks or it drops and you have to wait for the CD to start it up again. There's just no timer anymore.

What I learned in Sirensong was that the dungeons are likely to be heavily movement intensive. Which will hose up Enochian and did in my case. Which can be really frustrating.

The mechanics in that one for Boss Mobs are a lot of the Same mechanics you found in the Sky Pirate Raids (Void Ark, Mhach, Dun).

AoE is seriously powerful and got a boost... but a little trickier to work with due to how its done.

You're using Thunder AoE... then the standard F3, then the F2 spam. With occasional Thunder AoE procs. And then is the Flare finisher.

Fire 2 at 61 was only doing around 2000 dmg per target now, but then a Thunder Proc is another 3000.

As long as you have Thunder AoE running you will get procs.

EDIT: To contrast that as RDM I am dual casting Scatter, which does about 1400 + 1400 for about 2800 per cast. That doesn't include Mouil or Contra.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Psycofang

What level are you? Managing enochian is now managing your AF/UI uptime. Its actually easier now imo, it can never drop and if youre hurtin for time hit transpose to get another 13s reprieve.

Blm is really strong now, craaazy good aoe (though it gets weird) and ST is almost samurai tier if not better if we do not move.

Leylines having a 90s recast lining up with triple is a massive boon when weaved with swift cast.

---

I'm 68 now. There are just times where I have to switch UI super early to maintain the timer and it kills my dps. It's easier in some places, but other times if I'm trying to use fire I or III without tranpose to keep it up, I can miss the timer by a second and then I drop it.
I donno, I thought the old way was much easier >.<
Maybe it's just something to get use to.

Leveled from 60 to 65 today. I feel incredibly weak with the nerfs to Flare and Fire II. I also think it's incredibly annoying that a reduce MP cost is behind Bliz IV. In dungeons on three targets, Fire IV is more potent than Fire II on them. And your filler on three mobs instead of Fire I should be Fire II as it's higher potency to do so. I'm also not a fan of the gauge or the Enochian changes.

It comes together by 58-70.

3 targets itll go f4 f4 flare (foul) flare

4 its basically old f2 f2 flare (foul) flare

Mix in thunder 4s in ui phase

Yeah gating our astral fire behind blizzard 3 and blizzard 4 makes it extremely hard to pull off decent openers. By the time we finish the wind up and get into astral fire mechanics are happening. We can potentially do alot more dps if everything goes perfect, but af and ui are just so unforgiving that its gonna take awhile to get used to.

AoE is

UI1 -> BlizzardIV -> ThunderIV-> FireIII->Flare->Flare -> Transpose-> rinse repeat.

Foul can be fit in whenever its available to proc, obviously taking priority during UI