Blizzard II nerf for BLM too severe

[sakraycore]

50% nerf for blizzard II is too severe, it is not that OP as I'm sure most veteran black mages will tell you.

Instead of shaving the skill slightly to 90 or 80 potency from 100, you crushed it entirely and made it worthless to use at 50 potency.

Please revert the nerf or make it something more reasonable like 80 or 90 potency.

Freeze buff is pretty decent, but there is no point to break a superior skill just to make freeze look better in comparison.

[T0rin]

50% nerf for blizzard II is too severe, it is not that OP as I'm sure most veteran black mages will tell you.

Instead of shaving the skill slightly to 90 or 80 potency from 100, you crushed it entirely and made it worthless to use at 50 potency.

Please revert the nerf or make it something more reasonable like 80 or 90 potency.

Freeze buff is pretty decent, but there is no point to break a superior skill just to make freeze look better in comparison.

As a SMN who got Blizzard II instead of our beloved Thunder, we are the reason it needed to be nerfed. If you gave us a 100 potency AoE skill to fit into our Bane rotation, we would do way more AoE damage than we should.

Blizzard II was nerfed to balance it as a cross-class skill, not because it was too good.

[sakraycore]

As a SMN who got Blizzard II instead of our beloved Thunder, we are the reason it needed to be nerfed. If you gave us a 100 potency AoE skill to fit into our Bane rotation, we would do way more AoE damage than we should.

Blizzard II was nerfed to balance it as a cross-class skill, not because it was too good.

Yea but BLM should be able to keep the superior version just like another cross-skill I think Virus or something. The original class should keep the superior version.

[Kevin949]

We did, it's called Freeze now.

[sakraycore]

We did, it's called Freeze now.

Freeze still sucks compared to old blizzard. 3s for 100 potency vs 2s for 100 potency. Like I said, nerfing blizzard by 50% makes freeze look better, and will make people use it but there's no point of making blizzard II completely useless.

Freeze is also in no way a replacement for what old Blizzard 2 was/is. It is a pbAoE that requires no targeting vs a ranged AoE that requires targeting, and has 50% shorter cast time which is especially useful in PvP which is why I'm guessing it was nerfed. If that's the case, just nerf it for PvP, and keep the PvE version same as old version.

[Orophin]

Takes twice as long to spam stuff to death in FATEs now, boo hoo.

Blizzard 2 really has very little utility outside of FATEs so it's really not a big blow to BLMs.

[sakraycore]

Takes twice as long to spam stuff to death in FATEs now, boo hoo.

Blizzard 2 really has very little utility outside of FATEs so it's really not a big blow to BLMs.

No, it was almost the highest AoE DPS in a dungeon, if not the highest AoE DPS. Balanced by having to be in melee range in squishy armor.

I agree it needed a slight nerf, but definately not a drastic 50% nerf which renders it completely useless.

Please do not comment on classes you don't know about and claim it's fine.

[Kryzen]

As a SMN who got Blizzard II instead of our beloved Thunder, we are the reason it needed to be nerfed. If you gave us a 100 potency AoE skill to fit into our Bane rotation, we would do way more AoE damage than we should.

Blizzard II was nerfed to balance it as a cross-class skill, not because it was too good.

Man, you speak exactly what I want to say every time before i get to say it.

[Ronzeru]

No, it was almost the highest AoE DPS in a dungeon, if not the highest AoE DPS. Balanced by having to be in melee range in squishy armor.

I agree it needed a slight nerf, but definately not a drastic 50% nerf which renders it completely useless.

Please do not comment on classes you don't know about and claim it's fine.

So, are you BLMs trying to say that you are no longer the top tier AoE DPS in the game... and that DRGs are top AoE DPS now due to you losing Blizzard 2?

Cuz if it crippled you too bad, well then I guess the only conclusion is to take a DRG instead if you wanna do a AoE DPS fight. Problem fix'd.

[Aphrini]

Or just bring it back to 100 potency and I smile all the way to the bank with my SMN . They did this with WHM too btw changed Medica II to try and force us to use their newly "buffed" version of cure III, at the cost of having us still not really use Cure III by messing with one of our best tools. They are trying to force you to use Freeze which you will use more than you used to but not really