Why everyone plays Black mage

[NyneAlexander]

The most complex BLM gets is simply understanding the mana tick timings. That's it.

False. The most complex thing about blm is understanding each fight and how to cast your long ass spells around the mob/bosses/targets timing and abilities. This is what people don't understand about BLM. They think its easy because of the crux of our rotation is two abilities. But there are way more little nuances about BLM that can seriously hinder your dps if you don't anticipate whats coming next and set up properly. How many times have you seen a blm have a long as spell interrupted because they got LOS by the mob they originally target?

[Rhas]

The most complex thing about blm is understanding each fight and how to cast your long ass spells around the mob/bosses/targets timing and abilities. How many times have you seen a blm have a long as spell interrupted because they got LOS by the mob they originally target?

Are you one of those blm that tries starting a fight with flare or something? None of your spells should take that long to cast once you get into your rotation. Not even flare. If you are sitting and waiting for a 3.25-3.75 second cast time, you are doing something wrong

[Orophin]

Are you one of those blm that tries starting a fight with flare or something? None of your spells should take that long to cast once you get into your rotation. Not even flare. If you are sitting and waiting for a 3.25-3.75 second cast time, you are doing something wrong

Some guy was trolling me on Caduceus by doing this. Before we kicked him (he was being quite abrasive in chat anyway) I said "pulling" moved up a couple steps and he started casting Flare. I let him get the cast off without doing anything and let him tank Cad for a few seconds. :P

[Rhas]

Some guy was trolling me on Caduceus by doing this. Before we kicked him (he was being quite abrasive in chat anyway) I said "pulling" moved up a couple steps and he started casting Flare. I let him get the cast off without doing anything and let him tank Cad for a few seconds. :P

heheh.

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[SongJoohee]

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I would argue that keeping track of the mana tick timing is a more 'complicated' than watching your target so you don't waste a cast on getting LOS'd or on a target that dies before you finish, or you waste a fire cast on an opponent with 100hp for example, simply because in those instances you have a point of reference, being the target itself, or the targets hp bar, whereas with mana ticks it's all hidden from view. And I said for BLM specifically, the LOS/wasting large abilities on low hp targets is an issue for everyone, not just blm.