Black Mage

[Tsunakiel]

Good evening!

Here is some things I thought to make Black mage more convenient while giving a purpose to some unused spells, note that it's not in most cases a potency gain, no F4/B4 back to 280 potency sorry. ^^

• Either: Enochian should make Fire and Blizzard (tier 1) spells instant, making it less punishing than having to use Scathe, while still making it a DPS loss compare to F4/B4, allowing to refresh AF/UI as an emergency, if needed;
  
• Or, make it so that Scathe refresh the current AF/UI and remove his mp cost, as currently Scathe is double punishing, with it's low potency, no refresh and screwing the fire rotation;
  
• Flare could give a 10s buff allowing the next Freeze (which is currently useless) to be cast for no mana, and giving UI3, thus nullifying the reliance on Transpose in combat past level 50;
  
• Blizzard 2 should be brought back to it's potency pre 2.1 (100, compared to 50) and be on the target instead of ourselves, making it still less potent than Fire 2, which is 120 potency (80*1.8*(2.5/3)) but giving an alternative to Thunder during UI, when ennemies are close to death;
  
• Reduce the cooldown of Aetherial Manipulation from 30s to something like 20 or 15 seconds;
  
• Thunder 3 dot should either last 30s, or the Thundercloud proc should be lengthen, or be stackable up to 2, 3 times;
  
• Blizzard 4 should give a magic or fire vulnerability to the target, or umbral hearts should give a buff of some sort to the next spells to make them worth it in single target;
  
• Blizzard 1 should have no mana cost while being in UI.

There is probably a lot more to change, potency adjustments in general being beyond my own abilities, but those things would in my opinion help to not think that the job is playing against us.

[zuzu-bq]

[list][*]Either: Enochian should make Fire and Blizzard (tier 1) spells instant, making it less punishing than having to use Scathe, while still making it a DPS loss compare to F4/B4, allowing to refresh AF/UI as an emergency, if needed;

This would require at least a +1s on buff timers, but would be pretty cool regardless.