BLM Level 3 Limit Break

It seems that in the role of doing damage in the limit break department, Metor does absolutely nothing from what I'm told and that Pug's or Drags do the most damage which doesn't make any sense to me honestly. Feels like with all the high damage we BLM's do, out 3rd level limit break would be amazing in the damage department but I've never been allowed to use it. Everyone screams at me in dungeons that its useless and doesn't do anything. Can someone verify/clarify this please? Or did we get shafted..?

Summoner, which shares BLM limit break ability is pretty much the same thing.

http://i.imgur.com/02uf5pn.jpg

Yeah. It's really useless >______________> (noitsnot)

All joking aside. The mage Limit break ability is actually pretty handy for certain situation, given that it is a pretty damaging AoE. Ifrit's nail is a good example of very useful situation, as well as Garuda's sisters in the third time they spawn.

The Black Mage limit break does high amounts of damage to multiple targets, the Monk/Drg LB is to deal lots of damage to a single target. You job as a black mage is to LB multiple targets: nails on ifrit, adds and such.

its useless on 1 guy but pretty useful as AOE limit

for example when garuda summon those damn feathers in hard mode

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Originally Posted by Crimson-Falcon

its useless on 1 guy but pretty useful as AOE limit

for example when garuda summon those damn feathers in hard mode

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It would be more useful vs her adds. The feathers should not need to be limit breaked. A couple good AOE's will kill them before they even move.

It's kinda sucky is all. We're the slowest to attack due to casting times, made up for with high damage, and I guess the limit break trailer showing off the BLM LB was just for show since it was used on one boss. I just get a feeling unless I go out of my way to piss everyone off and "steal" the LB is the only time I'll see the Meator. :(

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Originally Posted by KyteStones

It's kinda sucky is all. We're the slowest to attack due to casting times, made up for with high damage, and I guess the limit break trailer showing off the BLM LB was just for show since it was used on one boss. I just get a feeling unless I go out of my way to piss everyone off and "steal" the LB is the only time I'll see the Meator. :(

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just try ifrit/garuda hard
you won't have to steal it, you'll be asked to unleash your meteor

asking for AOE meteor LB to deal the same damage/higher than SINGLE target LB is ridiculous
the damage isn't even shared

Trade with Bard! :)

there are endgame fights where you pretty much need a meteor or life is going to suck. hold your horses. and no a meteor shouldn't do more single target damage than final heaven.

Individual jobs having unique limit breaks? Sorry we can't have that kind of nonsense we have to boil it down to 4 options.

Final heaven: 9000 potency.
Meteor: 5400 potency in an extremely large area

Now apply that knowledge to PvE and if you come to the conclusion: Useless then I think you need to go back to the drawing board.

You're complaining about Black Mage Limit break? Hahah.. you never tried the tanks limit break. We rarely use ours cause there's always a better limit break to use.

try playing a tank, and having bad dmg output on your limit break.

People need to stop complaining about things they don't have enough experience to complain about.

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Originally Posted by Rez-V

Trade with Bard! :)

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You Sir Get A Like.

Be lucky you even have a dps LB we bards dont have squat

As others have said BLM/SMN LB is an AoE (I haven't used it so I can't comment on the damage) therefore it should do less damage to one target or you would never see a DRG or MNK using theirs, this way if there is one target use a melee LB, on multiple targets use a mage LB this idea of making each LB situational allows everyone to unleash hell every so often.

Tank's and Bard's LB are situationally useful too.

The three bar Bard LB has saved our asses more than once when the healers died, so we could finish the fight without wiping.

Tank LB has saved our butt in Garuda when we were doing the story quest and in a couple of different dungeons.

Melee DPS definitely gets to use the LB more often, that doesn't mean the other ones are not useful.