Is BLM truly simple?

[Sessurea]

I laugh when I see BLMs complain about downtime from moving, melee have it far far worse.

[Jican]

I laugh when I see BLMs complain about downtime from moving, melee have it far far worse.

As a main black mage, there is a lot going on that no one but a main black mage could understand. There is a 1.5-4 second cast on all your spells that do decent damage, and an insta cast damage spell that you incorporate based on the situation. Knowing what is coming is essential, but you can't always count on RNG, which is what Blm does. It's a very re-actional job that is easy to learn, but very hard to master. Simple mistakes, bad rng, and ignorance will lower your DPS so much, you'll be more of a paper weight to the party than a contributor.

Melee have it worse? My butt, you have auto attacks and gap closing moves with close to nil cool downs. Maybe if you had more than 3 jobs you would see the comment you made is both ignorant, and completely wrong.

**update** In my ignorance, i checked people's names on here and check their profiles to see if they have a job they are talking smack about, and only saw three. Only after checking my own profile did I see SE only posts three, although I know I have all of them at 50.**

[StouterTaru]

BLM is very simple to do well as, and easier to master than the other dps classes. There are a lot of little simple things that I always notice other BLMs not doing that are very useful:
-using sprint during fights (all mages in general, I rarely see this)
-running to the tank after pulling hate, or better yet before or during the GCD after a firestarter fire3
-using lethargy
-using apocatasasis/virus/eye for an eye (I'm guilty of this one)
-using raging/quelling/convert effectively on AoE nukes

[LionKing]

I laugh when I see BLMs complain about downtime from moving, melee have it far far worse.

I laugh when they think Melee can not Attack whilst on the move or 1 sec dodging AoE will massively affect their DpS overall