Three Simple Fixes to Black Mage

[HaroldSaxon]

Those changes wouldn't be anywhere near enough and flat out ruins the identity of the class.

OGCD Thunder in particular is lazy design. BLM is not about OGCD damage. Mana ward's changes while strong, wouldn't be unique enough to be essential and even if it was, would just lead to the same problem RDM has.

The Ley Lines buff wouldn't be worthwhile because people only run 1 caster, and the only casters that scale well from attack speed gains are black mages.

[VenusStar]

Those changes wouldn't be anywhere near enough and flat out ruins the identity of the class.

OGCD Thunder in particular is lazy design. BLM is not about OGCD damage. Mana ward's changes while strong, wouldn't be unique enough to be essential and even if it was, would just lead to the same problem RDM has.

The Ley Lines buff wouldn't be worthwhile because people only run 1 caster, and the only casters that scale well from attack speed gains are black mages.

I fail to see how it would lead to RDM's issue imo, but Thunder idea seemed the simplest solution without completely changing Black Mage's rotation. But on Ley Lines, I think it would a worthwhile change since healers do count as Casters, and I'm at least partial to the idea even if it doesn't scale as well.

[zuzu-bq]

I fail to see how it would lead to RDM's issue imo

Low DPS but unique defensive skill. Since both BLM and RDM deal low damage.

Thunder idea would change more off BLM's rotation that you think. Also Harold said it doesn't fit the job's base design that is have no OGCD damage source.