Devs unironically buffed Black Mages but everyone here is complaining about emotes

Truly pathetic.

I did call it, that they would unironically buff BLM. Never underestimate British sarcasm!
Monk next!

How about, as a community we focus on the important things like telling the Devs how to do their job, because clearly they are extremely incompetent and tone-deaf.

They want to make an e-sport out of this, and we keep hearing how 'they listen to the Japanese forums but not English'

It's 2023 and they still haven't added:

• A tab function to quick report someone, so the system prints the person's name, time, server and map and then a quick summary box of what the issue is.
• Mute all button to mute sounds
• Diminishing returns
• CC effect radius reduction
• Respect player time by doing actual legitimate buffs and nerfs
• De-rank for all ranks
• Actual match making

Yoshi P and the gang claim they want to make the game more accessible to newcomers, and they make changes that are foolproof, like needing to wait a second and a bit extra before you can use Guard again.

Yet, the current system creates elitist divide, dividing regular players, so they are ranked down to plat and all newcomers below gold.

This game, this game does not need more gate keeping, keep that in the cash shop where it's convoluted to add game-time, not in game.

We all claim we love PvP but nobody is trying to work on fixing it, 'it's how the way it is' is the default go-to but it shouldn't be.

We should all be having fun, and not feel like the system punishes us for wanting to play good, winning or play more.

Hope we can focus on more important things, and as we can tell, from 2 years of examples, the devs need specific details because they don't know what they are doing and that's a fact.

BLM legitimately needed the buff. Its too easy to shut them down during their LB.

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Originally Posted by Ransu

BLM legitimately needed the buff. Its too easy to shut them down during their LB.

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You spend more time on this forum than playing ranked, I don't want to hear suggestions from you.

My friend Bureda raised some interesting points, specifically the report function in CC is close to useless due to the clunkiness of it and the actions that never seem to be taken against the usual offenders in the mode unless the report counts is huge (And even then it's not even a guarantee).

Wanted to add of course that Italy is a european country such as many others that have been excluded from CCRC and have been barred from expressing my love for the game without so much of an explanation. Many of us just wanted to play the game in front of an audience even without a monetary reward, it's outrageous that on SE side there hasn't been an attempt to work around country laws(Just don't give us the money but merch instead? The possibilities are countless)

I agree with most takes, there are so many things they could change/add to CC to actually make it feel like a competitive gamemode that receives proper focus and care from the developer team. We all want the game mode to be better at the end of the day.

Also I have made a post well over a month ago about CCRC country eligibility because it is outrageous that only 16/50 european countries can enter, as my friend Ritlas says above I would even compete without being eligible for money reward, but it is too late now sadly and I can only hope that Hungary will become a real european country over the time.

Yo, it's cool that y'all are bringing up legit issues with the systems and on the official forums and that you all rolled up to support each other as a group of friends.

If you hadn't noticed, the official forums is kinda lacking in knowledgeable or regular players that actually care about the mode here on the official forums. Most threads are posted by players with little or negative experiences to vent and move on.

There's basically no threads to even teach completely new players that might be interested in the mode, and their earliest experience with the mode might end up being the 'pathetic' threads or a general sense of being unwelcome by being talked down to by what appear to be elitists that don't care about their issues.

On occasion we even have a small gang from some PvP discord that apparently exists deign to come through and mock everyone, too.

I invite y'all and your relatively unused forum accounts to post regularly about things that actually matter to you, maybe we can help each other's voices be heard on things that will improve the modes we enjoy.

Not really sure why Frazer wants to fistfight someone though

I like pancakes.

I'd like them to work on their damn tab target button, it's been garbage since 2013.

I'd also like them to let me keybind running backwards and backpedaling. I like being able to do both. Or enable legacy movement without it following my camera.

Maybe I don't understand what would be ironic about them buffing BLM or why this is/isn't a problem in your view, and your post doesn't really exactly explain it.

Reading your post history a bit, I think you just have a bit of a hard time expressing yourself without being kind of a douche. No hard feelings for that, you're just kind of a douche.

Guess I could have guessed when your thread about wanting some legitimately good changes is framed as calling out others for being pathetic first and foremost, like, ahead of your desired changes.

I agree with everything you said, Bureda. This Ritlas individual also raised some good concerns about the country eligibility, free italy free hungary free portugal. I would even say that some of these black mage players don't deserve to eat

yeah, op pretty much hit the nail on the head tbf

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Originally Posted by Bureda

Truly pathetic.

I did call it, that they would unironically buff BLM. Never underestimate British sarcasm!
Monk next!

How about, as a community we focus on the important things like telling the Devs how to do their job, because clearly they are extremely incompetent and tone-deaf.

They want to make an e-sport out of this, and we keep hearing how 'they listen to the Japanese forums but not English'

It's 2023 and they still haven't added:

• A tab function to quick report someone, so the system prints the person's name, time, server and map and then a quick summary box of what the issue is.
• Mute all button to mute sounds
• Diminishing returns
• CC effect radius reduction
• Respect player time by doing actual legitimate buffs and nerfs
• De-rank for all ranks
• Actual match making

Yoshi P and the gang claim they want to make the game more accessible to newcomers, and they make changes that are foolproof, like needing to wait a second and a bit extra before you can use Guard again.

Yet, the current system creates elitist divide, dividing regular players, so they are ranked down to plat and all newcomers below gold.

This game, this game does not need more gate keeping, keep that in the cash shop where it's convoluted to add game-time, not in game.

We all claim we love PvP but nobody is trying to work on fixing it, 'it's how the way it is' is the default go-to but it shouldn't be.

We should all be having fun, and not feel like the system punishes us for wanting to play good, winning or play more.

Hope we can focus on more important things, and as we can tell, from 2 years of examples, the devs need specific details because they don't know what they are doing and that's a fact.

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The emote topic has been covered so not gonna touch it but regarding your dismissal or reduction of the forum and the previous post is a bit misleading considering that as far as I'm aware the gnb change didn't come from discord or Twitter but from the forums where the idea was posted ad nauseum whether JP had it 1st or not im unsure but there has been beneficial threads in this forum especially when discussing the issues you've layed out, also doesn't help that you're reacting counter to what you claim you want from the forums to someone who replied earnestly with an inconvenient fact

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You spend more time on this forum than playing ranked, I don't want to hear suggestions from you.

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And yet I'm still better than you lol.

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Originally Posted by Ransu

And yet I'm still better than you lol.

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at gaslighting maybe lmao

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Originally Posted by Bureda

How about, as a community we focus on the important things like telling the Devs how to do their job, because clearly they are extremely incompetent and tone-deaf.

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Do you dictate what is important? And what then? Post about it daily until it gets fixed 5 years later?

I mean, as soon as blm ults he just gets monked or machinisted or blota'd or something in cc, it's just a giant kill me glow you have around you and there's next to nothing to do about it.

Of all the things to complain about, blm getting a little bit of dr on their lb ain't one of them, they still aren't anywhere close to whm, mch, drg levels at all.

How would one ironically buff BLM?

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Originally Posted by CidHeiral

How would one ironically buff BLM?

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I guess an ironical buff would be to buff something that doesn't matter. If there was a skill that was useless but technically would be better yet still useless. Another example would be to buff the potency of a skill without it translating to any change. Like making something do almost 1 point of damage more or just 1 or so little...

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I mean, as soon as blm ults he just gets monked or machinisted or blota'd or something in cc, it's just a giant kill me glow you have around you and there's next to nothing to do about it.

Of all the things to complain about, blm getting a little bit of dr on their lb ain't one of them, they still aren't anywhere close to whm, mch, drg levels at all.

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Dear Warrior of Light,
You are correct. I think a comparison to Monk who has a kit more bloated than when you google search, by accident, the word inflation with the safe search off, is indeed very fair.
Surely, if a Monk's stars align; they have the passive, combo and LB up, surely if they can do that then so can every other job right?

A giant kill me glow? Where? In a fan fiction? As it stands now, if a Black Mage LBs you have some thinking logic of to do;
Do you go for the BLM or do you try to kill more enemy team members before the Black Mage can wipe your whole team?
If you can get close to the BLM it will sleep me, if you sit through this CC, your whole team is dead, but if you cleanse out of this CC then the BLM will be able to use his Ice Attacks and slow me you down and kite you even further.
What if the BLM is at 100% HP? Which it most likely is at, now with the damage reduction not even a Monk can insta-gib it.

After all, when a BLM ults, you should be able to enjoy myself, right? Why should you not be tankier than a tank, have more ranger than an American Sniper and more damage than military explosives? Weakness? Is that like a Job Passive or something?

I know, you're most likely a very high skilled player and you do not have to worry about such woes. Square Enix can make no mistakes with their systems.

It's kind of like my thoughts on Elezen. Do I love Elezen or do I hate them? I don't know. Usually when I look at Elves in high fantasy I think to myself, whoa! Not, hold up. What is that?
When my king Haurchefant Greystone died I thought to myself: phew, thank the mighty crystal mother he's dead. He doesn't have to be an Elezen anymore. Finally I can know rest and closer as can he.

But Square just keeps bringing him back, like they do with BLM. Please, man, just let it die already.

Anyway. I know what you're thinking: "Hold up, BLM, have Ice Spells?"

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A giant kill me glow? Where? In a fan fiction?

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They literally have a bright purple DBZ aura around them when they LB...

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Originally Posted by Bureda

After all, when a BLM ults, you should be able to enjoy myself, right? Why should you not be tankier than a tank

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Which tank does BLM outtank with their 10% dr and lowest base hp in the game?

Go ahead, show me which (and no, non tank junction gnb doesn't count) tank is squishier than a blm who has the lowest base hp along sage with 48k.

This all just reeks of either not being able to get free kills vs blm anymore or dying to one a couple times, finding something to be salty about and then complaining on the forum about it.

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Originally Posted by Bureda

Dear Warrior of Light,
You are correct. I think a comparison to Monk who has a kit more bloated than when you google search, by accident, the word inflation with the safe search off, is indeed very fair.
Surely, if a Monk's stars align; they have the passive, combo and LB up, surely if they can do that then so can every other job right?

A giant kill me glow? Where? In a fan fiction? As it stands now, if a Black Mage LBs you have some thinking logic of to do;
Do you go for the BLM or do you try to kill more enemy team members before the Black Mage can wipe your whole team?
If you can get close to the BLM it will sleep me, if you sit through this CC, your whole team is dead, but if you cleanse out of this CC then the BLM will be able to use his Ice Attacks and slow me you down and kite you even further.
What if the BLM is at 100% HP? Which it most likely is at, now with the damage reduction not even a Monk can insta-gib it.

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As a MNK player, idk what you mean by it being bloated since all that it has a lot of is combo abilities, which all of them are identical outside of snapshotting with certain combos. However MNK has incredibly good burst off of a regular CDs that are incredibly effective against any low health job, Like BLM, with LB as an extra bonus if you have that.

To focus more on BLM, which I am lesser experienced with but I do understand it enough from how I've seen other players on the job. A lot of there defensive aspects of there kit are very counter productive when it comes to defending themselves. Nightwing's CC requires you to wait 3 seconds for the CC to go off, and after that the sleep effect can be interrupted by any form of damage from you or teammates. Burst has a beefy shield, but using it specifically to put the shield on yourself can see you missing out on a large amount of damage. Also having to either to stand and cast the spell leaves you very open, or having to use AM to get a swiftcast has drawbacks in of itself as well. And any of the Ice debuffs is not great for personal defense with how much set up you need in order to put debuffs up on one singular target. This is especially the case with their LB, as you are using it ideally to get as much damage out as you can on the enemy with the fire DoT than the freeze effect.

Not to say any of these abilities are bad, but none of them are meant to be amazingly effective forms of defensive tools since its balanced that way. To me general BLM gameplay is about being the wizard in the back casting spells, and they are just generally built for that scenario. Using there LB and having your entire playstyle be encouraged to play more aggressively feels awkward when you don't have extra options to support your survivability. The 10% dr for the rough duration of your 7 spells you get under the effect are fine, and helps a lot to make the LB not feel horrible to use when your using it properly.