BLM Buffs Inc!

[Maero]

sorry what is E4E? from summoner perhaps?
Yeah i also have physick, mainly for oh crap moments, lol

[Sleigh]

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.

I think an interesting mechanic could be enemies with 100% dodge rate who have to be burned down by Hawk's Eye users in the future. As it is now it's really quite useless.

[Uninstall]

Or just have it give the respective class their primary attribute.

[Viridiana]

sorry what is E4E? from summoner perhaps?
Yeah i also have physick, mainly for oh crap moments, lol

Eye for an Eye, which is one of the better mitigation abilities in game at the moment.

And the only thing Hawk should be giving you is a laughable amount of parry.

[Aikaal]

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.

Summoners have Quelling Strikes, Raging Strikes from Archer. They have two Pet CDs and Enkindle. BLM have Quelling Strikes and Raging Strikes and that's about it. Summoners don't need a buff.

[Timethiuas]

I want Drain. I don't care if they make it an ability or a spell, but I would really like it as a way to get back some HP while soloing.

[Aikaal]

I want Drain. I don't care if they make it an ability or a spell, but I would really like it as a way to get back some HP while soloing.

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You shouldn't have issues... unless you don't have 4 levels in Arcanist.

[Remn]

I think an interesting mechanic could be enemies with 100% dodge rate who have to be burned down by Hawk's Eye users in the future. As it is now it's really quite useless.

Will never happen unless, Hawk's eye can be use by At least ALL DPS. otherwise it will create situation where people wont take any class that cannot cross skill Hawk's eye

[Kitru]

Will never happen unless, Hawk's eye can be use by At least ALL DPS. otherwise it will create situation where people wont take any class that cannot cross skill Hawk's eye

The closest you'd probably get to that scenario is a portion of the fight where the enemy gets something like 20-30% evasion. Hawk's Eye would provide a distinct advantage but it wouldn't be outright required. It would also give the Rain of Death effect some value as well.

[SongJoohee]

I can't see Surecast being altered to allow us to cast while moving, it completely goes against the identity of Black Mage, as much as I would like it, I would like any of these)

a) Stackable Firestarters (2, or 3) to stop so many of these constantly going to waste.

This solves the issue that's been there since 2.0, I feel up to 3 would be a good amount, you could "store" 1, and then you have the 2 "spare" that stops them going to waste. If it's up to 2, you will still have the issue of losing some, but atleast you can have 1 stored for usage during movement.

My issue with this is the identity of BLM and the potential for burst damage. BLM burst is pretty strong as it currently is, can you imagine if you have a stack of Firestarters, maybe a Thundercloud too? Any burst DPS checks would just be obliterated. Firestarter hits for what, 1,1k? If it stacks to 3, 3.3k damage in 3 GCD from Firestarts, add a Thundercloud and then a swiftcase Flare, if it was for example for a 10s burst... It's obscene and then factor in Foes Req, Potions, Raging Strikes and Crits and it just goes through the moon. I would love that, whether it's balanced or not is another question ^^

b) Add Miasma or Bio to Cross-class abilities, with possibly some changes to WHM offensive attacks to balance this out on that side.

As others have said, BLM have a spare cross-class, sure, Physick is useful now and then, but it's such a rare occasion where Physick would actually save someones life.

This solves the mana tick timing introduced in 2.1, we often have to sit and wait for a slight moment for a manatick, with another Dot, we can reapply this and thunder while waiting for the 2nd tick, and then continue with Fire. This also makes movement slightly less of an issue as we will have both Thunder and Miasma ticking while dealing with whatever makes us move.

c) Buff to Scathe. The nerf in 2.1 was pointless. I'm not even sure why they did it. I would love to see Scathe be buffed a bit and made more reliable, atm you play the lottery of Normal Potency/Normal Crit/Double Potency/Double Crit, I've seen it hit anywhere from 200-1000 damage.

d) Change Aetherial Manipulation. Change this to a teleport, to teleport us anywhere we say, rather than to a party member.

I've been making a lot of us out of this recently but having it limited to party members is very prohibitive. I can see the issues with it though, such as aiming ground targets seems to be pretty horrible on gamepads.

And I guess e) Please for the love of god either just remove, replace or make Apocatastasis useful for something other than applying on random people to see them go "Wow I've never seen this before, what does it do?"