Black Mage sends up a distress Flare!

[Clarkamite]

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BLM doesn't need an AoE buff. Speaking as a BLM main since 2.0, we are in a great spot. Seeing my parses in A2S is enough to know our AoE is fine. SMN has their AoE niche and their mobility niche. BLM ST numbers are not even correct half the time. I hit a 16.5k Fire IV Tuesday during raid. 16.5k. That's not even right. A BLM who knows what they are doing will do just fine with mobility as well. It is a little bit harder to maintain proper uptime with our long casts and restrictive timers but I seem to manage just fine. The tools are there for us to use, you just have to use them.

As for the OP's original idea, I actually like that. I say that as being a person who cringes every time someone says our AoE needs to be buffed. The idea sounds pretty decent to me. My only thing is I absolutely think we cannot be comparable to SMN in the AoE. I think our numbers are perfect.

[Xisin]

The very reason flare was nerfed was deathflare. SE did this to establish identity in the casters. BLM had both the edge ST and aoe wise, where as smn only had multi target dps in their favor. If the flare penalty was taken away, blm would be superior to smn in every way again. I most definitly like my big boom fire 4s. It's why I've always played blm, big boom singletarget. We've always had the highest ST spell anyway. (fire 3/flare in 2.x amd Fire 4 now.)

[Clarkamite]

The very reason flare was nerfed was deathflare. SE did this to establish identity in the casters. BLM had both the edge ST and aoe wise, where as smn only had multi target dps in their favor. If the flare penalty was taken away, blm would be superior to smn in every way again.

This for sure.

[Slappah]

(Had a character limitation, thus the two separate post

Type out your post, copy all of it, delete whatever amount for it to be able to fit into one post, post, edit, paste
GG, you just bypassed the character limit.


They really just need a sticky in every single subforum about this tbh, I see it so often and yet still see so many people not knowing about it.

That or just get rid of the silly character limit altogether

[WordOnTheWind]

Helpfulness

Ah, thank you.

[Malevicton]

We're still the second highest aoe dps, and ahead of third by a significant margin. All of 2.0-2.55 we were uncontested gods of aoe. We really don't need an aoe buff.

Casters are actually pretty nicely balanced right now, which is rare. Don't fix what isn't broken.

[WordOnTheWind]

Considering that I have mechanics that actively work against me at all times and if it's at all disrupted then my output plummets while others can just do their thing with simplicity and ease, no I would not call that balanced. I would in fact call that quite broken. I hate what my class has become.

[StouterTaru]

I was being outdone on AoE damage by a White Mage throwing Holy.

Based on your lodestone gear you look fairly new to 60. Any dps with 170 and lower gear will be outdamaged by a healer in 190 and up gear in cleric stance.

[Clarkamite]

Just give it some time with the new rotations. I made the fatal mistake of coming here to the forums right when Heavensward was new and believing what I read as first reactions from even well respected BLM's everywhere who were up in arms about how the new rotations and movement killed our DPS. I remember being so worried at like level 56 from all these people who were saying BLM was done. I shouldn't have believed it, not even a little.

Once you get a few pieces of gear and have time to really get used to where you can and can't slide cast, learn fights and when you can squeeze in some more casts and when you can't, you'll see BLM is just as godly as ever.

To me, it feels like all SE changed was they emphasized BLM's strong points even further in exchange for a slight decrease in our AoE numbers and to be honest I'm all for the change. I'll take the slight "nerf" to our AoE. It's not nerfed into the ground and our ST is competitive with everyone except maybe the absolute best melee players out there. BLM is in a pretty excellent spot.

[waifugenerator]

BLM AoE has always felt kinda...choppy?? I wish it worked like our old ST rotation, where maybe every Fire II has like a % chance to proc a freecast Flare. I've found spreading TC procs throughout mobs though is pretty handy, especially with the buff