Black Mage

[Altera]

There is one thing about a class being slightly underperforming vs being purely ousted by the community due to it just have zero raid utility or any benefits, but just a headache having to work around the BLM.

I have played BLM since 1.0 in 2011, and I have been levelling other classes, but I simply do not enjoy their playstyle at all.
I actually blame people using ACT DPS meters and FFlogs that the BLM is in the place it is. If DPS meters hasn't been available, people would not cherrypick classes like they do now as they would have no idea which class setups is vastly superior.

And me quitting a game over this, is due to the reason back in WOW patch 4.1.3 when they totally messed up my Unholy DK class, and NOBODY wanted it, and I was forced to either leave the raid team or play another class or spec. And I played Blood, which made raiding so frustrating and unfun. It took the Blizzard devs about 3-4 months before they buffed Unholy back to normal and I fear 4.2 won't even fix BLM, making playing the game no matter what content as BLM, an exercise of frustration and simply no fun.
And I play games to have a fun time, and I prefer MMOs over all other game genres, and atm XIV is the only MMO which made me happy

I would prefer to play XIV 1.23 instead of 4.1!

And about if other classes being underperforming, overnerfed, yes they did quit. Just not the game. With Summoner being in a poor state at SB launch, there was almost nobody playing one as I noticed. Same with other classes in past patches as well.
Now that Summoners is the highest Caster DPS, I see so many Summoners around on server and in dungeons.

[zuzu-bq]

SMN was good at SB launch though, most of the rage was at the Bane and Deathflare nerfs (that was just), the horrible gameplay at 60 after the combat system overhaul and the fact a lot of people had no idea how to deal with the new tools while BLM was more of the same and RDM was an easy to play raise powerhouse.

BLM just have been underperforming since 3.2 and it's been so long that the community just roast any BLM they see. I personally don't like seeing BLM I don't know in my DF or PF parties, the chance of them being bad and drag the party down are too high. While on SB launch I didn't bother to have a SMN on my parties. It's just a job that when underperforms it drags everyone down with much more ease than any other ranged DPS, and when performs well it means that player can easily just play a better job.

Here is the thing though, SMN clearly had problems at its SB launch, so did BLM. Many BLM players been complaining of the same things since 4.0 came in, but they either got outshined by SMN complaints, since they had many more things going wrong, or simply dealt with it in silence. Now that SMN is in a good spot, I don't see why not keep making noise until SE realized what is wrong with BLM's new design.

[Neela]

And about if other classes being underperforming, overnerfed, yes they did quit. Just not the game. With Summoner being in a poor state at SB launch, there was almost nobody playing one as I noticed. Same with other classes in past patches as well.
Now that Summoners is the highest Caster DPS, I see so many Summoners around on server and in dungeons.

Well i already noticed that the ones who stick to their mains in worst or overbuffed moments at all arme very rare in this community. There is always a "worst" cls, never understood that most of the com chose it's cls by meta and numbers instead of lore and personal likings. Btw switching cls waiting for buff/fixing is still a whole different thing than quiting the whole game flaming devs and company, which was actually the point i answared to ^^

edit: but im totally with ya about fflogs i just hate that it steers everything nowadays yes indeed. but it's on u if u wanna please the com and follow the trend or if u just give a shit about this convention or what people think and wait until the situation gets better by buffs/adjustments. People may say "good call smn" but those people should he aware that i stick to smn since 3 years and personally dont give a fck if im an undergog or masterrace right now - im just a summoner. You seem even, would be sad if you would quit without at least waiting for the lets say first-try adjustments to Blm soon. : /

[Altera]

Well i already noticed that the ones who stick to their mains in worst or overbuffed moments at all arme very rare in this community. There is always a "worst" cls, never understood that most of the com chose it's cls by meta and numbers instead of lore and personal likings. Btw switching cls waiting for buff/fixing is still a whole different thing than quiting the whole game flaming devs and company, which was actually the point i answared to ^^

edit: but im totally with ya about fflogs i just hate that it steers everything nowadays yes indeed. but it's on u if u wanna please the com and follow the trend or if u just give a shit about this convention or what people think and wait until the situation gets better by buffs/adjustments. People may say "good call smn" but those people should he aware that i stick to smn since 3 years and personally dont give a fck if im an undergog or masterrace right now - im just a summoner. You seem even, would be sad if you would quit without at least waiting for the lets say first-try adjustments to Blm soon. : /

I am just Vote with my wallet kinda person, like with EA Games, Activision and Ubisoft. Not purchased a single game from them in over 5 years until I see the companies changes their views on the lootbox greed.
Back in 1.0 when I first started playing XIV, I played all classes to 50, and out of every class, I found BLM to be the most interesting and fun class to play as well as Lorewise, plus I love thunderstorm in real life, so since BLM has Thunder, I play BLM.
RDM I also tried, but did not like its playstyle at all. I also suck at tank and healing, but also I dont like that either. I prefer dishing out damage and make bosses go byebye xD

I am gonna continue lvl my other classes, as I cannot do anything much else in game now, and wait for 4.2 to roll out, and if no changes. I am going to shift my subscription from XIV to WOW, and give the game a fair chance. At least there will be more stuff to do contentwise in WOW and Unholy DK than XIV and BLM atm :/