How is BLM in new expansion?

[Fatshine]

Now that I have gotten to 60, yeah I can say SMN is better at AOE than BLM. Even before 3.0, the BLM had to be really good to best me at AOE. Now I absolutely wreck everything in my path, and it feels damn good! However, I still feel for BLM mains, I did start out as a Thaumaturge after all. I believe if SE nerfed Flare, then Fire II should receive a buff in order to bring BLM up to par with SMN. We are casters, we are AOE gods after all. Also based on what I have read /heard, BLM is totally fine until they have to move. High movement cripples them even more than before. SE has to take a look at how Enochian, Fire IV, and Blizzard IV work again. I'm surprised they haven't let Firestarter stack up til two since so many requested it to help with movement. Let's not play the Nerf this job because mine sucks game guys, instead try to offer reasonable changes to improve your job.

[hallena]

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Wow, finally a smn who don't have some sort of vendetta against blm for some reason.

[Kenji1134]

Personally I am baffled as to why F4 and B4 do not refresh their respective buffs.
I understand that they want us to still use the older spells during Enochian, but thats why the rank 4 spells should "refresh but not apply".
As I understand, at 60 you have to manage refreshing Enoch, maintaining AF3 while spamming F4, and all the other movement related aspects.
At the very least allow F4 to refresh AF3, so we will have to track just our mp, Enoch timers, and movement, using B3 and F3 to perform the required Alignment Switching, while having F4 maintain (but not apply) AF3.

[Sleigh]

Personally I am baffled as to why F4 and B4 do not refresh their respective buffs.
I understand that they want us to still use the older spells during Enochian, but thats why the rank 4 spells should "refresh but not apply".
As I understand, at 60 you have to manage refreshing Enoch, maintaining AF3 while spamming F4, and all the other movement related aspects.
At the very least allow F4 to refresh AF3, so we will have to track just our mp, Enoch timers, and movement, using B3 and F3 to perform the required Alignment Switching, while having F4 maintain (but not apply) AF3.

IDK, I actually like the current synergy between F1, F3, and F4. They all have a use and it's a maintenance system, it creates a kind of rotation but also a priority system when things go wrong.

I just wish the F1 usage wasn't so strict due to timers. Heaven help you if you get interrupted near the end of your F4 or your F1 cast and don't have Swiftcast.

[Kailii]

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Having to manage Astral Fire is the worst part of Heavensward blm and what I feel should change to get the feel of the class back. Current it's a very strict rotation where movement just makes you outright skip a step. It's incredibly frustrating. I don't see why replacing an older spell is a bad thing. It counters button bloat, makes us feel different for the expansion and lets us use a frankly far more satisfying spell. (In terms of animation and feel.) 2.0 BLM worked because of how everything fit together. Procs let us move, the spells you cast were simple and could be restarted at any point. I mean right now Thunder is basically a lost spell and relatively useless.

Letting F4 proc Firestarter would be nice as well for opening up leeway to move.

[hallena]

They could just give fire IV a 40-50% chance to proc an instan cast fire I. with or without mana cost, i dont care either way
or allow firestarter to proc from fire I and fire IV