I'm frustrated by the job. Basically, what I really enjoyed about it before was watching my mana, pumping out solid abilities, and ultimately not worrying if things go south because I can recover.

I just hit 60 today and I'm using gear that is better on my SMN (mostly crit) - already I'm feeling the lack of spell speed. On top of that, not only do I have to watch mana, but now I have to watch enochian and heavily pay attention to umbral ice/fire? Did this overwhelm anyone when they started playing Black Mage? Or were you all fine with it. I had a horrible run of AV (granted, the tank didn't pick up any of our ads, and the plant boss ran around like mad for the first minute, and our healers weren't healing for crap because "deeps"), but still. I become obsessive about keeping up enochian. I'll have to run around to avoid mechanics sometimes, then when I do I'll notice umbral fire is low, so I'll use a quick fire so I can continue fire 4. But then I see that my enochian is low -- yet I have plenty of mana for more fire 4's. I'll switch to blizz 3. Blizz 4. (forget about EVER using thunder again. Maybe it's easier for those with spell speed..I do not have SS). I'll use fire 3. and basically the pattern repeats itself. I can NOT seem to dodge mechanics effectively with this new black mage rotation.

I miss old BLM. Thank god for new bard. I'm not one for keeping up DoTs like the SMN. (simple refresh/ 2 dots on bard is plenty for me). Am I just doing something wrong? Does the job get easier with more spell speed? (my cast time is something like 2.91 seconds for fire 4 I believe). I have 690 crit. I can only get off 2 Fire 4's before I need to use Fire 1. Then I'll Fire 4 -- and if I DIDN'T have to dodge any mechanics, I can potentially use another before I have to Blizz 4 to renew enochian.

I swear I'm doing something wrong. I'm frustrated as hell because I really like black mage. But dammit if I don't think I can play the class anymore...