BLM Utility ideas!

[Capn_Goggles]

Giving BLM utility would violate the very core point of the job. BLM will benefit much more from buffs to underperforming aspects of the job and QoL improvements than it will from giving it the same generic "press X to buff raid" utility people seem to love, and flat potency increases are boring. Improve Umbral Hearts, extend AF/UI duration by a second, and at this point it's worth just making enochian a trait rather than a buff considering it's borderline impossible to drop.

[Kabooa]

Giving BLM utility would violate the very core point of the job. BLM will benefit much more from buffs to underperforming aspects of the job and QoL improvements than it will from giving it the same generic "press X to buff raid" utility people seem to love, and flat potency increases are boring. Improve Umbral Hearts, extend AF/UI duration by a second, and at this point it's worth just making enochian a trait rather than a buff considering it's borderline impossible to drop.

Well 2 out of 3 of these mean nothing at all.

What change to Umbral Hearts are you proposing?

[Capn_Goggles]

Well 2 out of 3 of these mean nothing at all.

What change to Umbral Hearts are you proposing?

Umbral Hearts have a fairly small impact on single target rotations compared to AoE, as it results in a whopping one extra Fire IV at the expense of staying in umbral ice longer and potentially playing russian roulette with mana ticks, and even in AoE situations works out rather weirdly due to the intermixing of single-target spells in an AoE rotation. Firstly I'd have Freeze generate umbral hearts while under the effect of enochian the same way Blizzard IV does, secondly I'd probably make umbral hearts reduce the cast time of fire spells the way umbral ice does, which while not directly influencing DPS assists greatly in dealing with forced movement and being able to better weave buffs or procs between spells.

Enochian being a trait is mostly just a QoL "why is this even a button any more" change, which is always nice, and the minor increase in duration to AF/UI is to accommodate how much BLM's rotation was tightened down since HW.