Black Mage Sanctuary - A Guide to DPS

[Amarello]

You kill the faust on the 3rd platform so you don't have to wait for 3 years for vuln to fall

[smallbeach]

what do you mean ? The place where u kill faust matters on how fast lose his vulne down ?

[Amarello]

Yeah, the tether gives the boss vuln down and after the lava melts the faust it will be gone, so if you kill it on the 3rd platform you will have less vuln down than on the 4th one.

[smallbeach]

im not sure if we kill it fast enough, i almost never seen him casting his aoe but i always feel like waiting a lot of time waiting for vulne down to go off

[Marianno]

I was having a conversation in-game with a fellow blm and she was asking what I think about the possible changes to the jobs already in-game for the upcoming expansion. I am curious about what you lot think about the status of blm in general now if you want to change or fix something, what would it be and why? Sorry to put this here but did not know anywhere else to put it. Honestly, I do not know what to think about this. I love blm as it is right now.

[Cherub]

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For 4.0 huh... Hard to tell.
Let's say we're only considering 4.0 and not a complete remake of the job (Because I want to use many elemental spells rather than just 3).
First of all, a small adjustment to the AoE rotation. Transpose is extremely clunky and in situations such as A9S, where you need to AoE and then also keep up enochian for single target right after the aoe, it's very easy to lose track of Enochian or getting completely screwed over by MP ticks.
I'd like some sort of smoother transition from 0MP AF3 into X-amountMP/UI3. Weaker than convert but due to smoother transition most probably more desired than B2/Freeze/Transpose. If it is x-amount MP back it'll not be as much to allow a cast of Flare or Fire II. It'd probably just be enough to cast a B3. But that's just talking weirdo stuff. Anyway, smoother AoE rotation. That's what I'd like.

Secondly, replacing low tier magic with high tier magic and thus making it more effective or desirable than the current spells. Just a fan of high tier magic so I wouldnt mind if Thunder and Fire were to be replaced with something better and cooler.

I know many people want surecast to allow people to walk and cast which imo sounds like a terrible idea lol. I'd just much rather have some sort of constant SS buff (Which is actually a lot more ridiculous than the surecast idea!). Just anything really that makes BLM more competitive in movement heavy fights.

On and the return of caster gear. It's really sad that they actually got rid of caster gear with the introduction of Summondrian gear and Shummonire gear.

[Amarello]

im not sure if we kill it fast enough, i almost never seen him casting his aoe but i always feel like waiting a lot of time waiting for vulne down to go off

Well if your other dps can't kill it fast enough and you have to wait, then probably just cast bliz 1 and thunder for a chance of proc

[Maero]

Thunder Iv would be nice to have in 4.0, as would elemental based attacks. Still makes absolutely no sense we use fire on fire enemies for example.
I do not see such a drastic change however, and there was that mention from SE wanting to basically dumb down jobs, so i really hope enochian is not removed and going back to 2.x blm, this would be sad

[MagiusNecros]

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I'd prefer access to spells like Breakga(instead we get lethargy which is more a PvP thing) that NPC's only have as well as an AoE Thunder. The ability to store a TC and F3 Proc as a charge with no timer to account for proper application when managing the Enoch timer. And of course more spells that weren't just Fire and Ice. Freeze needs a rework. Surecast should prevent interruption for a full 10 seconds just like a certain PvP skill.

Just a few things. I could go on and on but I won't. The new auto-turn change they added this patch is a welcome change.

But judging from your post I have to take "I love blm as it is" as a bonafide "I don't really care what they do" statement.

[Lavitz_]

Thoughts on a Thunder IV AOE that also refreshes Enochian? I can dream