BLM and SMN BUFFs info is coming out!! PATCH 2.3 Preliminary

[ViviAnimus]

I agree very much with you, Xisin. But how you parse 430 DPS on a BLM is just above me. I am an iLVL 105 BLM with ilvl 110 weapon. I get one requiem (no battevoice) and parse around 380. I can do more than 300DPS on Titan EX but I fail to see how someone gets more than 400 unless there are some extraordinary circumstances. I do play with a controller, but this does not hinder me (macro AE), nothing different for movement and nothing different when it comes to skill usage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POy_KGENS08&hd=1
This is from a month ago and I have gotten better. But if you have time, I would like to hear a critique as to what I am doing wrong.

[Truedragon]

I could post a perfect parse on t8 and still barely get over 430, high end monks get 470-500 and high end dragoons get 450-480

And this is why I said the changes are unbalanced. You do 430 now and by next week, you will do 460-470. "On par" with other jobs and yet you do 4000 dps when there is trash mobs involved. So on the one hand, we have Blm's as AoE king and on the other hand, you are now "on par" with single target damage of Drg, mnk and smn.

Insane.

[DonnieD]

And this is why I said the changes are unbalanced. You do 430 now and by next week, you will do 460-470. "On par" with other jobs and yet you do 4000 dps when there is trash mobs involved. So on the one hand, we have Blm's as AoE king and on the other hand, you are now "on par" with single target damage of Drg, mnk and smn.

Insane.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUeeIjyI7QQ

[Marianno]

I'm not an expert on the BLM even though it is my secondary class and I main on SMN. I still have yet to discern all of the secrets of the BLM job. However, I do think that even with this change BLM will not be on par with SMN, MNK, DRG in ST dmg but I can definitely tell that the ST dmg buff was much needed. Granted there are already people who play BLM and have learned to play their role the max. I still do not think that BLM will ever be on par with ST dmg jobs but this will help the job immensely. As for SMN, I agree with others before me. The changes to the egis will not warrant the use of ifrit egi over garuda egi. Furthermore, I still can't wrap my mind around this concept of making garuda egi atk instant. Can someone tell me what the purpose of that was?

[Ragecake]

It's funny. I foresaw the Manawall duration nerf a while back. I'm most surprised it happened so soon, hah.

It's kinda dumb, but I'm most excited for the Apocatastasis buff more than anything.

The potency buffs didn't address any of the main issues that conflict BLM at this current moment, which is a real shame.

I'm a bit indifferent to the changes, but at least all BLMs will be doing more free damage now.

[Kitru]

Apocatastasis was useless, now it can actually do something, minor, but still something.

20% magical DR on an ally isn't "minor". That's on par with most tank CDs. It just has the longer CD to account for the fact that you can give it to anyone, not just a tank.

As to people wondering about the DPS increase, here's some math.

There's a simple equation you can use to determine BLM pot/GCD (explanation here; if I got any of the numbers/casts phase wrong, feel free to correct me). Currently (2.1), BLM has...

(275 + .25 * 340) + (220 * .5 * .8333) + ((150 + 70 * .4) * 1.8 * 6) + (220 * .5 * .8333) = 2465.73 potency over 9 "GCDs" = 273.97 magic potency per GCD

With the potency increases, BLM has...

(275 + .25 * 340) + (240 * .5 * .8333) + ((170 + 70 * .4) * 1.8 * 6) + (240 * .5 * .8333) = 2698.39 potency over 9 "GCDs" = 299.82 magic potency per GCD

This means that BLM will see about a 9.4% (299.82 / 273.97 - 1) increase in total damage, which might as well just be a 10% increase.

[Truedragon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUeeIjyI7QQ

this one fits you more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkTb9GP9lVI

[atomicdeath]

Dont know if its a typo or not, but the cast timer for Aerial slash is already 1 sec. The RECAST timer is 3 seconds. So does that mean garuda will attack 3 times faster?

[Elemia]

And this is why I said the changes are unbalanced. You do 430 now and by next week, you will do 460-470. "On par" with other jobs and yet you do 4000 dps when there is trash mobs involved. So on the one hand, we have Blm's as AoE king and on the other hand, you are now "on par" with single target damage of Drg, mnk and smn.

Insane.

I'm ashamed somebody as ignorant as you is in my Free Company.

[dflaneko]

These changes are just a big cop out. SE needs to go back the drawing board and focus more on gameplay rather than graphical content. Yoshi P even said a while back that they were focusing too much on graphics and yet here they are doing it again. Keep this up and it will be 1.0 all over again. There are several jobs with gameplay issues since beta and all that was done was put a bandaid on it.

Focus more on gameplay, find out what is fun, and make it so.