Black magic...kinda sucks

[GunksFoy]

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This about sums it up.

The only point in your entire post that I'll agree with, is that Summoner is a bit too close in terms of DPS for the utility and mobility it provides. As for the rest, part of the fun of BLM is the challenge and thrill of finding a way to manage mechanics while pushing max dps. You not liking BLM doesn't mean the job is broken.

[Malkria]

This about sums it up.

The only point in your entire post that I'll agree with, is that Summoner is a bit too close in terms of DPS for the utility and mobility it provides. As for the rest, part of the fun of BLM is the challenge and thrill of finding a way to manage mechanics while pushing max dps. You not liking BLM doesn't mean the job is broken.

I never said it was broken, I said it isn't fun to play and doesn't mesh well with the basic game design of the game. You can have a turret DPS playstyle that does a better job of meshing with said design then what we have currently, and it has been done in other games better.

[GunksFoy]

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Fine, let me rephrase. Just because you don't like the job, doesn't mean it "sucks". Tons of people love to play it, myself included, and enjoy the challenge.


As for your other post, if you think that you don't need to know fights for the other jobs to be effective, you are sadly mistaken and clearly not playing to the best of your ability. Yes, BLM is somewhat more punishing if you don't know the fight, although not much different than Dragoon or Monk. Less so considering you can maintain stacks/enochian/foul indefinitely.

Also, you definitely don't need to max out the crafting classes. i370 gear is still the best and can be melded, 360 gear can also be melded, there is the i350 relic gear with 5 slots to meld, and you can buy crafted gear. This is a silly point. Not to mention a max SS build isn't even necessarily BiS. IIRC, the best build is 1930 SS and max crit.

Go look at FFlogs and tell me that Summoner does more DPS. As I said before, Black Mage could use a little bit more of a boost to compensate for the lack of utility, but BLM is the top DPS right now.

Stack degredation is not going to happen. I don't know that it would kill the job, but the way you described it is ludicrous. Lose a stack every 3 seconds? So we would literally never use Fire 4. If you meant 13 seconds, as in when the AF/UI timer ends, that could be a bit different. However, considering Transpose, this seems silly and unnecessary. Lastly, Ley Lines is a huge increase to DPS. It allows you to squeeze extra F4s, Foul in your AF rotation, TC procs anytime you have them. Ley Lines is very versatile and extremely crucial to the way BLM works.

TL;DR: if you don't like BLM, go play something else and stop trying to ruin it for the people who enjoy it.