Black Mages' sleeps should be nerfed

[Dimitrii]

One only need look at the topic title to know the OP was just trying to troll anyway, asking for a sleep nerf on top of the previous sleep nerf.

[Sirius-Khan]

Nerf sleep in exchange for nerfed cast times on Fire/Blizz IV

[Seoulstar]

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Well considering the fact they took away healers only way of fighting someone off. Making them almost like tanks was a good exchange.

[Isala]

If you complain about sleep on shatter I really think I was in such unlucky parties till now x)
In all the content with a lot of player you usually get your Bind/sleep broken by random players even if you put a chainmark on them,
also you have access to purify, your healer can dispel and BRDs can dispel and protect too.

Also you will gain invulnerability too, honestly I dont' see any issue and actually I'm mostly playing BRD.

I just oneshot the BLM as BRD. Can't cast sleep when you're dead. And after that EA and SW buff? Heh. Dead BLMs as far as the eye can see.

[JazzofEtro]

*Activates the race card that was played face down*

Why it gotta be the Black Mage doe?

[Geologo]

I just oneshot the BLM as BRD. Can't cast sleep when you're dead. And after that EA and SW buff? Heh. Dead BLMs as far as the eye can see.

As BRD you can oneshot even healers, it's not related to BLM, and when I see a BRD buff up I try tostay far from him, CC him until he lose his buff, also as BLM you can use Manawall.
So it's not definitively related only on BLM xD

[Erudito]

You realize that if they nerf Black Mages sleep (further) there will be little to no reason to bring on to PvP, right? A black mage can do heavy damage, but the moment a person gets hit with a Fire 3 or Fire 4, the person hit will make an immediate B line for the Black Mage. This will, in turn, mean death for the BLM due to the fact that they cannot cast anything when they have something on them, they will have to rely on Swiftcast freeze/sleep or some other such just to try and get a cast out.

My observation on this matter: Black mage is a force to be reckoned with in PvE but are too squishy and slow to be effective in PvP without their sleeps, binds and such. I am willing to say that BLM has little business in PvP as it is. They can use their barriers and such but their long cool-down makes them useless in the long run. Without sleep and bind, they should not step into PvP unless they have a dedicated guardian.

[Eul]

I want ninja's hyoton or doton nerfed because it made me can't runaway.

[Dumbledoremd]

I know they already nerfed the durations but it's still annoying. How about making it a single target and/or increase their cool down times?

Having a whole party put to sleep in the Field of Glory left and right is annoying. You need people to attack the crystals in this mode and sleep abilities are too effective.

Cool so then we have nothing vs tank or any melee class use purify stop crying they allready nerfed it

[Evangela]

How it should be adjusted.

- Night Wing should be a single target, or have a cast time.
- Night Wing should share the same cool down with Sleep.
- Both Night Wing and Sleep should put the target to sleep up to 5 seconds. That's enough for BLM to run away in case they're using it to defend themselves. Well BLM shouldn't be alone to begin with.