Black Mage

[Neela]

...but the trend of being told to switch is not fun.

yeah I can feel you - but the difference is I won't give a shit...

never was a friend of paternalism. if i join a random grp for either farm or raid I join as my favorite cls or the cls im in the mood for - if anyone starts do "organize" me im out as fast as I can run. cls lockouts or (wannabe-) advices are just stupid.

anybody ever heard of a dd who argued for a certain off-heal or off-tank cls in a random grp? no? why should I switch my dd cls than? just because someone I don't know and probably will never see again wants to save some secs on a random run? no way...

[Galvuu]

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I play almost exclusively Bard for progression and let me tell you- it would've been way harder to clear O4S the first few times with Black Mage.
It's not even close. The Minuet Troubadour for the Almagest right after Omega, the Paeon Troubadour for Neverwhere at 6 stacks and the refreshes+raid dps increases are incredibly clutch.
Someone got hit by emptiness before Light and Darkness? Have a Palisade and he'll live. Scholar is gonna deploy Adlo for an Almagest and something happened and we're not topped off? Let me Mine the Warrior. Someone with weakness for meteors? I'm at 5k MP, let me Foe real quick.
I have an unending love for Black Mage, but realistically I know I'm setting us all back if I play it most of the time, and I can't do it. I can't drag 7 people I consider my friends into failure for two more weeks because of the fact I love Black Mage.
And that feels bad (especially because I hate the swingy, rng nature of Bard). I can't just "not give a shit" about the friends I play with :/