Black Mage

[zuzu-bq]

Perhaps all jobs need not excel at everything...

I agree on that, but right now there are jobs that excel on everything, and jobs that excel in absolutely nothing.

[Remedi]

To be honest proving a point that balance is fine based on a novelty run of a 24 man raid seems a little bit... petty. If it was intended to prove a point at all outside of being goofy and fun, that is.

Uh? I don't think he wanted to prove that balance was fine at all

[OgruMogru]

Uh? I don't think he wanted to prove that balance was fine at all

In that case disregard what I said completely, I got the wrong end of the stick

[Llugen]

So what do you folks think would be the most LIKELY fix to the job in 4.2? As much as I like tossing around creative suggestions, I know that many of them are not practical for a "hotfix"/patch but should be saved for the next expansion, so here's my list:

Increase of proc timers to 30 seconds
Increase Thunder III DoT to 30 seconds
Potency of Fire IV/Blizzard IV increase to 280
Convert recast reduced or MP reward increased
Reduced recast of Aetherial Manipulation to 15s or 10s (please please please please)
Potency of Fire I increase..? Maybe?
I can still pray for that suggested Freeze fix, and honestly it sounds like that wouldn't be all that hard to implement either.

[Remedi]

i think it does resemble what they would normally do

[Llugen]

Another quality of life thing I’d love to see is a change to Umbral so there is less reliance on server ticks for MP. It could give MP the way that things like Void Fire and Pyretic work with HP but in reverse.

[zuzu-bq]

Another quality of life thing I’d love to see is a change to Umbral so there is less reliance on server ticks for MP. It could give MP the way that things like Void Fire and Pyretic work with HP but in reverse.

People been asking this on OF since 2.0.

[Remedi]

Generally speaking SE should change how things like TP/MP gain are handled from a gain every 3 secs to something like wow where the gain is dinamic

edit: now it's: X every 3 secs
while dinamically woulòd be: X OVER 3 secs

[Sylvain]

Just add :
enochian refresh Astral fire / umbra ice

And I think we're set.
The best would be "fester refresh af/UI duration"

[Silver-Strider]

I'd prefer if Sleep was remade into something more useful such as:

Curse
Instant. 180 CD
Increase target's magic damage taken by 10%
Duration: 20s

This gets rid of a more or less useless skill (outside of niche uses) gives them a Raid Utility skill (albeit a minor one) and increase their own damage.