Most useful dps

[Marcusow86]

Is Black Mage actually good for any of the Extreme Primals? I don't think I've met a single BLM that impressed me in any of the zillion EX runs I've done.

You just haven't met with a potent BLM. Those that can pull 300+ DPS for Twintania fight.

SMN can leave dots at nails, but careless attacks can make the stacks go high due to later nails are destroyed too fast, so I guess BLM and BRD are easier and safer to play there.

Just my viewpoint as BLM, though. You can say I'm biased

Totally agree on this. SMN can be dangerous in Ifrit nail phase. What i usually do is to dot up nails counter clockwise and make sure to only dot those that have full health. When my target overlaps with those that my team members are hitting, i proceed to join them and dps normally. This is to ensure nail stack doesn't go high suddenly.

[Ooshima]

Totally agree on this. SMN can be dangerous in Ifrit nail phase. What i usually do is to dot up nails counter clockwise and make sure to only dot those that have full health. When my target overlaps with those that my team members are hitting, i proceed to join them and dps normally. This is to ensure nail stack doesn't go high suddenly.

DoTs OP lol.

Reminded me of a fight where we had 3 bards inside, all the bards spread windbite all over the place, and we ended up wiped because the nails died one after another like domino effect.

[Tua]

You just haven't met with a potent BLM. Those that can pull 300+ DPS for Twintania fight.

I haven't, and that's what's bothering me. To me BLM seems great in dungeons and T4/T5, but I can't really think of any EX fight where I'd go aww yiss a blm. I mainly spend my evenings doing EXs for the funsies, and PF BLMs on my server rarely break 200.

BLM is next on my leveling list though once I'm done with WAR . I just can't think of any EX fight where I'd want/need to spec BLM instead of any other available dps class. I'm sure there's neat tricks and awesome burst windows where good BLM can really shine, but looking at the class from outside it feels like they're the gimp class in EXes.