Black Mage Job Spells are disappointing.

[Belmore]

I don't really care if they have to move something around (Fire III seems like a perfect candidate for this), or tone something else down to keep us in balance with other classes. When I unlock BLM, it should be freaking awesome. I shouldn't trade 200 hp for 300 mana once every 3 minutes, I should be bending gravity, summoning meteors, or flinging tornadoes. I just think there should be something instantly recognizable as BLM only, so we can show it off, and be proud that we unlocked BLM!

TLDR: THM is great. BLM makes it better, but not necessarily cooler. The addition of a distinctive or instantly recognizable BLM only spell (that's in line with the traditional BLM theme of pure destruction) would alleviate the situation, even if it didn't actually add damage or utility to a class that already has both in spades!

[Marveth]

So many people displeased with this job, surely there must be something wrong.
It seems to be big part to the visual factor but also since pre 45 BLM lost more than it gained in terms of DPS.

Personally I played THM until level 45! This was so I could have 20% crit chance from pugilist as well as raise and protect.
Before 45 there was NO usefulness in BLM job besides a minor stat boost, after at least I got gear that forced me to play BLM and it kind of felt good. After all I wanted to be BLM, I just did not want to feel gimped.

You want to know something funny ?

German Spell Names : ,-ra ,-ga
Japanese Spell Names : ,-ra ,-ga
France Spell Names : extra, mega

English Spell Names : ,-II ,-III

*bite nail* You HAVE to be kidding me!? It's like the localization team does not even know what a Final Fantasy game is.

[TisiBumkins]

For all the BLM survivability CDs you could get some nice ones as THM such as Pug's instant 20% heal to self and group or a CNJ stoneskin. I personally love the Pug skill for 20% crit for 15s on 1min cooldown. That with AF3 can deal some huge damage.

[Bloodravn]

Flare should deal bonus damage based on how much of your mana it consumes. So it you drop your entire mana pool on it, it should be like a mini limit break

[Belmore]

Flare should deal bonus damage based on how much of your mana it consumes. So it you drop your entire mana pool on it, it should be like a mini limit break

Cool idea! We regen mana so quick that it might be too powerful though.

I'm conflicted in complaining about the lack of cool spell effects from BLM when THM has such awesome spell effects.

But still . . . it would be awesome if BLM had a dark aspect spell complete with awesome spell effects. Thinking like Magus from Chrono Trigger: Dark Bomb, Dark Matter, Dark Mist, Black Hole, etc.

[Zenaku]

Ya the BLM skills suck. Even Freeze / Flare are next to useless.

I feel you playing blm wrong if you don't know how to use flare. It's one of the big dps for blm. with Raging Strikes + good gear you can easy do 1.5+k dps and without it 1k+. Not sure why people think flare is useless if you think that then playing blm wrong.

[Nyel]

I just think Flare needs some kind of overhaul at least.

It's the always known BLM ability in most of the FF's, it should be a bit more... epic. So should Holy.

Increase potency by ~ 30-50%, increase CD to 30-60 seconds and give it some kind of special ability not linked to your mana pools at all.

[Hoban9331]

Where is Ultima, Exit and my favorite, Quake. I think SE needs to look at all of Vivi's abilities in FFIX and give those to us! The only spells I use in my rotation are Blizzard, Transpose and Fire 3. sometimes Sleep. Im lvl 40 and those are all that I use (also in dungeon bosses I use Thunder2)

[Nyel]

Where is Ultima, Exit and my favorite, Quake. I think SE needs to look at all of Vivi's abilities in FFIX and give those to us! The only spells I use in my rotation are Blizzard, Transpose and Fire 3. sometimes Sleep. Im lvl 40 and those are all that I use (also in dungeon bosses I use Thunder2)

Let me tell you in a nice way, that you are doing it wrong.

Go for the proper BLM rotation right here in the forum.

[Zenaku]

I just think Flare needs some kind of overhaul at least.

It's the always known BLM ability in most of the FF's, it should be a bit more... epic. So should Holy.

Increase potency by ~ 30-50%, increase CD to 30-60 seconds and give it some kind of special ability not linked to your mana pools at all.

flare is one of the strongest spell for blm so you know it does not need a overhaul at all. Pretty much one you low on mp to no longer cast fire you do flare and with Raging Strikes it does even more. So ya i think people here playing blm wrong if they think flare is weak lol.