How's BLM looking?

[CecMiller]

You will largely see a lot of summoners posting because the truth is:

BLM is 100% completely fine. Summoner changes are not. I've mained both classed for savage raiding tier and Summoner more-so (to a high level) but I have cleared all the creator savage fights with BLM. BLM does 100% have superior single target. The advantage of summoner was largely its instant AOE deletion as it didn't have to wind up like a BLM does with cast times. Further still, downtimes in the savage fights meant summoners got mana refresh after spamming Ruin 3 and got their Aetherflow back meaning their single target was admittedly, very high as a result (god bless you if you died just after using aetherflow however). Most of the AOE was instant damage and to be honest, that's what I loved about summoner.

With the current changes we've seen at E3, I'll probably just be maining BLM as they look to do both AOE and Single Target better than summoner, but the main reason is that SMN looks completely boring to play! Not sure how RDM will pair up.

The argument that somehow Summoner should do less damage in both areas due to their utility is downright stupid however. Looking at the changes for Stormblood, as a BLM player, I'm content with the changes and have no reason to complain. Summoner changes are completely retarded for more reasons that one. The main one for me being the class becomes downright boring with the current changes. The AOE damage changes are whatever but I'm pretty sure BLM has summoner beat in that scenario in an extended multiple adds fight with the flare buff, AOE thunder and Foul being way more accessible and more frequent than Bahamut's Flare.

[IllyriaKnotfred]

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So I gotta ask. If RDM turns out to be even marginally stronger than BLM or SMN. Is that the deciding factor to you? Do you switch mains without a second thought?

[CecMiller]

So I gotta ask. If RDM turns out to be even marginally stronger than BLM or SMN. Is that the deciding factor to you? Do you switch mains without a second thought?

The deciding factor will almost always be how fun the class is to play. For BLM for me it was the big numbers. Nothing beats the explosions! I've loved BLM and love min-maxing savage fights so doing it with minimal movement via playing BLM will always be fun.

For RDM, to be honest, I haven't really looked into the class as much. What I do know is that their AOE is subpar (I think?) compared to BLM or SMN and they do drain mana. I haven't played RDM and so would only decide what I would prefer to play over how RDM plays. I know the feel of BLM and SMN from the savage tier so I kinda know gist of how they will play out in combat. RDM is a different beast but it should be fun learning a new class!

And in terms of if RDM was marginaly stronger than both BLM or SMN, I would say no. The class would have to be fun to play in savage fights for me to decide first and foremost. With summoner, I absolutely loved deleting the add phase of any fight. If the difference in strength between the casters is small, then I'd always play the one that I enjoyed in a particular fight the most!

[Neela]

So I gotta ask. If RDM turns out to be even marginally stronger than BLM or SMN. Is that the deciding factor to you? Do you switch mains without a second thought?

Unless you are in a very hardcore raid group- why does it matter which is the 'best'? Play what you enjoy playing the most.

Because most people (not pointing on you Cec more in general) want to claim "being meta" on their flag what's sad. Everytime a job gets op the cls community increased drastically Mnk, Ast, Drg, Smn now Blm... there will always be wtjs in every mmo who join top tier jobs cause of being top tier and not cause they actually really like the cls. And than there are the ones who actually fall in love with a certain cls who stick to them even in bad times like AAR Bards, AAR Smn, HW Whm etc. because they like everything around it story, design, gameplay and other points aside of pure numbers.