Black Mage Raise Ability

[Gwaeron89]

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Because raid setups don't care about lore. They are based on class power and utility. There's almost no one raiding on blm or smn right now because these classes are simple not worth it compared to rdm. Blm will never get enough dps to cover for rdm's battle res without becoming completely broken, so i wouldn't expect any buffs honestly. Smn is useless and just needs total rebalance but that's another thing for another topic.
But the problem is still on hand, you either switch to rdm to play high end content or accept the fact that you make your static's life worse by refusing to do so.

I'm raiding savage content as blm actually. Every time i see when people are dying and healers don't have time to res them instantly I know its my fault to not chose the right class over the one i like to play. They don't force me to switch into rdm, but i know im dragging them down with my decision to play this class. Not the best feeling honestly.

[Ronzeru]

No. Black Mages don't rez. No matter how much you kick, scream and shout. I know a lot of you who speed through the story don't give a damn about lore... or even teamwork for that matter... But that's what a Final Fantasy game is about. The day they truly start giving you guy s what you want even more... which is folding in w h en you want to change the core elements of what a class is, or give you more nerfs to harder content... easier access to welfare epics... is when the game finally starts to die.

I don't think its at that part of the life cycle yet, where they let tanks do higher dps than DPS and give white magic to black magic classes.... thank god the japanese are more stubborn than America.

[Ronzeru]

Oh... wait... i've got a great idea! Yoshi-P. There is a awesome FFXI spell you took away from black mages.... please return to blackmages t he spell, "Tractor"! They'll all love that.

[Xehmnus]

Oh... wait... i've got a great idea! Yoshi-P. There is a awesome FFXI spell you took away from black mages.... please return to blackmages t he spell, "Tractor"! They'll all love that.

Out of curiosity, what does that do? I did not have the pleasure of playing XI so I'm unfamiliar.

I'm not saying the BLM doesn't need something. I just feel that what they could get should be something a little more imaginative as opposed to just giving them a res because RDM and SMN have one.

[Vincent_Mateus]

Black Mage is fine now. It literally shits out damage, and the only thing holding it back is the lack of magical synergy between comps.

[ss_mangos]

Out of curiosity, what does that do? I did not have the pleasure of playing XI so I'm unfamiliar.

Drags a dead player to your position

[Aleisterz]

I'm raiding savage content as blm actually. Every time i see when people are dying and healers don't have time to res them instantly I know its my fault to not chose the right class over the one i like to play. They don't force me to switch into rdm, but i know im dragging them down with my decision to play this class. Not the best feeling honestly.

They need to get better. You should. Not at all. Feel bad. It is the same shit as in ARR with SMNs, play what you want, the raids are designed for every type of comp to be able to clear it and honestly when you have the fight down, who cares? You guys learned it without a handicap and when your team gets confident you guys will blow through the raid thanks to you being an additional glass cannon.

[ADVSS]

The best possible solution is to just make phoeenix down usable in battle. Keep it stuck at 1 per character at a time,. It'd feel more like a FF game, and the restriction is high enough that it wouldnt really well seemingly, break the game. This entire thread is literally "The devs said this will never happen and gave their legitimate reasoning as to why, so why not?" BLM dont raise, they were never healers directly(Drain makes sense though because its literally a Black Magic Spell) Youre asking for more utility, and just using rdm and smn having raise in their kit and going "we want to be the same" why not go for some utility they dont have instead?

I agree and sympathize that like DRK, BLM best utility got thrown in the discount bin and given to the other casters, but so did e4e get split up and bargain binned at half strength.

personally im not too fond of a rigid, strict trinity type of game unless its a solo one, alot of salt when everyone relies entirely on everyone else, but thats an mmo for you,

If they broke down and gave blm raise, the next whine session will be drg or nin wanting a raise because all the casters get one. And then itll be tanks next because every other role has raise.
To end all of this in the future if i were a dev, id simply just make phoenix downs usable and tell everyone to shut it

edit:I meant virus. though i think e4e got taken from both casters and made healer only

[VanilleFang]

Isn't necromancy "evil" in FFXIV? BLM also have no connection to necromancy in this game so no, it wouldn't make sense.

[Remedi]

Isn't necromancy "evil" in FFXIV? BLM also have no connection to necromancy in this game so no, it wouldn't make sense.

Woudln't say evil (as it is a very vague line) but yes BLM and necromancer are very distinct things, I would even say that BLM and void magic aren't even that related, despite mhachi having a clear connection to the void, but new BLM questline made clear that mhach kinda lost itself over time