Found this funny picture of BLM.

[AreeyaJaidee]

Hey something like elemental weaknesses and magic burst would be cool. Hope they add those in the future

[Ultear_Milkovich]

I just spam scathe and call it a day. Don't have time to min/max with all that Astral nonsense.

On my side i just only spam auto attacks of my rod. Because back in the days when i played Pong i had a nice paddle and i miss it so much. New games make me sad.

[Mercutial]

That still sounds like too much work. I just throw rocks at my TV. One is bound to hit the mob eventually, right?









I had Pong too when I was a wee lad.

[Ultear_Milkovich]

Hey something like elemental weaknesses and magic burst would be cool. Hope they add those in the future

In case of BLM this would be fire weakness as fire provides us with 75 or 80% of the total damage (too lazy to make a calculation lol). so adding fire weakness to a lot of mobs wont make a lot of sense except if its compatible lore-wise (i can see Sahuagins or Shiva with fire vulnerabilities. I can also see the other DPS jobs whining about the BLM buff)

[Ultear_Milkovich]

That still sounds like too much work. I just throw rocks at my TV. One is bound to hit the mob eventually, right?


I had Pong too when I was a wee lad.

Good tactic but dont attempt Titan. He will throw back your rocks at you.

[Conradus]

Nostalgia bomb, also so sad but so true... Why SE why... Oh well... There's always Blue Mage... Right?

Well, it's a little more complicated than that...you wanna use Fire III and Blizzard III to switch between Astral Fire (nuke) and Umbral Ice (recharge) states, with Transpose as an alternate to that, fire off Fire III when Firestarter procs and Thunder III when Thundercloud procs, Manaward and Manawall to save your bacon when the mob slips off the tank, and figuring out just when is the best time to hit Flare. But overall, yeah, it's pretty simple.

[Andevom]

It also wasn't nearly that complicated in XI as the chart implies.

Also, Magic Bursts were pretty rare to see happen, and 99% of the time it was by accident. Maybe that's changed now, but then, just about everything in XI has changed.

[AkashiXI]

This is sad. So much nostalgia, and not enough realism. Others have pointed out that Black Mage in XI wasn't some overly complicated job that required a ton of foresight... it was a nuance of abilities that were situational. Almost all the spells listed became obsolete, and the others used for Magic Bursts/Elemental Weakness/Random factors (elemental weather). It's not that much better than the XIV counterpart.

[myahele]

It would be neat if BLM (or mages in general) can have access to all the elements. Its sadly ironic that NIN has all elements

[Catwho]

It also wasn't nearly that complicated in XI as the chart implies.

Also, Magic Bursts were pretty rare to see happen, and 99% of the time it was by accident. Maybe that's changed now, but then, just about everything in XI has changed.

There were a few fights where Magic Bursts were all but necessary. Aspidechilone and Tortuga being prime examples (you could just whittle down Genbu over time, but Torturuga in the BCNM arena had a timer, and Aspi was like as not to get stolen if you didn't kill him ASAP.) For Torturuga, 8 BLMs, 2 SAMs, 2 tanks, and all the necessary bards and red mages and white mages to keep everyone alive and greased up was pretty standard. The SAMs would make a weapon skill and the black mages would cast all at once, on a timer. It was beautiful.

But yeah, in regular parties, magic bursts were usually happy accidents.