Why is BLM getting a buff?

[ToffeeCoffee]

I consent to SMN being nerfed. Sick of everyone saying how OP it is, how Garuda does all the work, etc. and every man and his dog jumping on the bandwagon. Do it please so all the pretenders can go roll something else. There needs to be strengths and weaknesses to each class without any being significantly disadvantaged. You can't just give every class the same variety of AOE and single target damage or little will differentiate them. They should all have fun aspects and be appealing for different reasons. If ranged dps is generally considered so easymode for everyone, make ranged dps work harder so numbers balance out.
With addition of the new pets for SMN I hope you are bringing new and exciting things to other classes also to keep everybody interested.

[scarebearz]

There needs to be strengths and weaknesses to each class without any being significantly disadvantaged.

I agree each class needs strengths and weaknesses, so lets compare BLM and SMN stregnths and weaknesses for end game content (Content that rewards i95+ gears):

If equally geared and skilled a SMN will likely do considerably more DPS for:

Coil Turn 5
Levi Ex
Moogle Ex
Second Coil T6
Second Coil T7
Second Coil T8
Second Coil T9

If equally geared and skilled a BLM will likely do more DPS for:



lol.

[Raestloz]

Sorry to say that IMO above was a wrong statement.

I think BLM should have the highest Single/AoE DPS, the trade off is interuptable casting.
When everyone is not moving, by what reason BLM should have lower dps than others? ^^;

I'm surprised BLM is not already the highest damage-dealing class. The fact that you can be interrupted mid-cast, coupled with the reliance of moving around all over the place in high level bosses, mean that improving BLM damage will not suddenly make it OP across the board, it simply will mean that their damage, in high level contents, be similar to other classes.

So we can be interrupted, are squishy, and STILL have lower damage.

Unless Firestarter and Thundercloud procs all the time

[Pomelo]

Fair enough on the BLM buffs because of "movement" but there are other jobs who also have this problem such as Monk and Dragoon, not their own movement but rather the error text and half animations that appear when trying to chase down moving enemies >.>

[scarebearz]

Fair enough on the BLM buffs because of "movement" but there are other jobs who also have this problem such as Monk and Dragoon, not their own movement but rather the error text and half animations that appear when trying to chase down moving enemies >.>

I think BLM dps during high movement fights is ok, it's just the overall damage from blm on single target that is imo poorer.

I.e. weaker damage when standing still to dps compared to the other classes.

[Malamasala]

I don't see the problem with the SMN and BLM situation. In which way does it improve the game if the roles are switched so nobody wants SMN and everyone wants BLM? Realistically the only way to get this to work is if both do the exact same damage, with the exact same amount of skill.

In FF11 BLM > SMN was the norm. I played for a decade and had BLMs out-DPS me the entire time (and I wore the BiS gear). SMN strenght was stoneskin melee jobs or Alexander melee jobs, because DPS from SMN was the worst. Worse than that was probably that SE never buffed SMN. They added things like AOE auras with -20% damage penalty. Yea, the worst DD class surely needed lowering their DPS to raise everyone elses.

We don't want to shove SMN back into the "fine as solo, but sucks in parties" situation of FF11.

[raelgun]

dont think people understand what they mean by strength and weaknesses, this statement to me means a class handles it easier, doesnt mean it does more damage, you should play a class that has flavour, if all jobs do the same damage, thats what you aim for, you play a job cos of the play style, are you a fan of direct nukes or dot based damage etc.. its all about style, strength and weakness shouldnt mean theres a significant different between good smn and good blms that currently exists, i play blm better then smn and i do more damage as smn.
its obvious most of the people that play this game dont know how end game truly plays.

[LadyVal]

I think BLMs need a little boost, not a boost to become the best single-DPS class and the best AoE-DPS class, but just so they can keep up. With how much they have to move in so many situations, they rarely get any time to build up a lot of damage.

Didn't they mention in the Letter from the Editor too that in 2.3 they're going to be adjusting many skills for many classes to make them more useful? While it's not a statistical increase I could see these changes make other classes still viable, I think it'll be pretty hard for them to buff up one class so much that another class just gets completely shunned because of it.

[Wolf_Gang]

This one little adjustment will fix all of BLM single target woes.

Surecast
Next spell is cast without interruption from attacks or movement.
Buff duration: 6s
Cooldown: 30s

[Spyrit]

This one little adjustment will fix all of BLM single target woes.

Surecast
Next spell is cast without interruption from attacks or movement.
Buff duration: 6s
Cooldown: 30s

They call it swift cast and no it doesn't help.