BLM Quality of life changes

[HaroldSaxon]

Giving F4 procs would be bad imo. The class should be unique playstyle wise, and the "turret" gameplay does that more than any other class (3 second casts on F4).

Astral Fire Duration Increase
Thunder 4 - Thundercloud giving extended Enochian by 5 seconds (so that using Thundercloud doesn't punish you)
Allow finish of B4/T4/F4 cast if the cast has started even if Enochian drops off
Fix of the F3-Gap-F4 bug.
Reduction of the Mana cost of F1 to be the same as F4 (so that using F1 instead of F4 doesn't double punish you)
Enochian skill always fully refreshes Enochian (so only B4 is a diminishing return)

Then give one of the SMN skills a small magic vulnerablity debuff so they have more utility.

What the above will do is bring QoL to BLM, and make casters able to be a viable option in raids where there aren't any "cheese" mechanics that force the use of a caster - and allow caster heavy parties to compete with Melee heavy parties.

[Dajinn]

Fix of the F3-Gap-F4 bug.

This isn't really a bug, it's just bad programming. But yes I agree with that and the rest.

I think all the BLM needs to make it perfect is to:

make B4 always refresh enochian to 30 seconds
extend duration of AF/UI to 12-15 seconds
make Enochian always restart the duration at 30 seconds
finish the damn cast of F4/B4 even if anything drops off

And that's it.

[HaroldSaxon]

This isn't really a bug, it's just bad programming. But yes I agree with that and the rest.

I think all the BLM needs to make it perfect is to:

make B4 always refresh enochian to 30 seconds
extend duration of AF/UI to 12-15 seconds
make Enochian always restart the duration at 30 seconds
finish the damn cast of F4/B4 even if anything drops off

And that's it.

Its actually a bug from a bug fix. The cause is the bug fix they did in 2.1 - The infinite flare bug. But yes, bad programming I agree, but its still a bug nevertheless.

Even if you did the above, you would still have Thundercloud being made useless, and be double punished for movement for having to use a Fire 1 - as you lose two fire 4's (one from not casting the F4 in the first place, and second due to Fire 1 costing more mana).