BLM Buffs Inc!

[Warlyx]

the last tick of thunder alwyas proc thundercloud !

[Kabooa]

Black Mage just needs slight utility tweaks.

A) Give us access to Arcanist Raise. Every mage gets access to swiftcast, so it isn't like we'd be breaking the game by getting the nearly-best use of the cooldown.

B)Apocatastasis is utter garbage. It needs to change to one of the following
-A flat elemental damage reduction player-centered Raid Buff to justify the cooldown.
-Be given a mana cost, cast time, and cooldown removal to be a single target magical damage shield. Black Mages have some issues with heavy mobility fights, and having a way to survive one hit when doing a Raging Strike burn session would be amazing.

C) Conversion really doesn't need to be a three minute cooldown.

D) Let Firestarter and Thundercloud stack up to 2 times. Because waiting to see if it procs between spell casts loses far more DPS time if you hit a dry streak than chain casting and double proccing. Easy solution; Let us stack to two charges.

From a long time ago.

[SummerRider]

Had another idea:

Transpose changes to whatever the stack is. If you had 1, 2, or 3 ice, then you'd have 1, 2 or 3 fire when used.

So Fire III proc up to 2 stacks with 20 seconds total to use both. Slight boost to Scathe so not as strong as Fire 1, but close to it. And transpose transferring stacks with it.

That would make us overpowered I would think.

Right now you can achieve the same effect by using Fire 3 and Blizzard 3. Both give you 3 stacks of the appropriate element. And if you are at level 3 in the opposite (fire3) then your ice spell is cast more quickly. The only problem you really have to pay attention to is keeping enough MP when in fire mode to case Blizz 3.

[BinaryJack]

My 2cents...they will probably create buffs that is usable by SMN.

To be completely honest, the only buff SMN/BLM has is Raging Strikes.
I can not and will not consider Shadow Flare a buff in any way, form or function.

[Exstal]

My 2cents...they will probably create buffs that is usable by SMN.

Because SMN has movement issues that lower their DPS by a significant margin.

[Maero]

Actually i have a bunch of cross class skills from my Bard i use with my blm, Quelling which is a must and also Hawk Eye and Raging Strikes.
Still anxious to see what buff they have in mind, maybe they will just have it so thundercloud and Firestarter have a higher chance to proc or deals more damage? dunno

[Remn]

how do Hawk eye benefit BLM? I though DEX doesn't give any to BLM

[Kenji1134]

Dex does nothing for BLM. Hawk's Eye only raises dex, and frankly if you are using it for the 100% hit rate, then you have different issues to fix.

[Maero]

issues as in gear? I do not recall missing hits often
I have it as a cross class but rarely ever use it, maybe once in a blue moon. I mainly use Quelling and Raging Strikes along with Virus which also Virus is not used often.
Well for now my gear focus has mainly been my Bard but will soon start coil with my blm
Coil is ok with my Bard but i want more action
Blm is mainly in Ct gear atm with some dl and hat being the lvl 100 piece
Anyhow this thread was about buffs so sorry i even mentioned what i did

[Kenji1134]

Basically Hawk's Eye is useless for BLM because it only buffs dex, which does nothing for our spells, and you should already have a 100% hit rate. If you dont, then you need more accuracy, as hawk's is only up ~22% of the time.

For Cross-Class skills, I stick to Raging, Quelling, Virus, E4E, and Physisk... Least Physick gives me a ~400 hp heal, still better than Hawk's.