"Oh look, they're just buffing Fire 4 again. Like that'll help." - Black mages

[Kabooa]

Also Black Mages

[Capn_Goggles]

The only black mage that would say this is that ice mage you get in duty roulettes. It looks small, but when Fire IV represents the overwhelming majority of your DPS output any small buff to it very quickly adds up.

[Sunako]

BLM have get over 700 dps buff during this expansion and ppl still complain.. They are never happy.

[Nhadaly]

BLM have get over 700 dps buff during this expansion and ppl still complain.. They are never happy.

Because DPS isnt the problem of the class, us not being optimal for progression is because we dont have a resurrection ability, and resurrections allows a group to see more mechanics.

[Legion88]

Because DPS isnt the problem of the class, us not being optimal for progression is because we dont have a resurrection ability, and resurrections allows a group to see more mechanics.

Progress is not the place for BLM, but after progress it can outclass RDM easily and sometimes even SMN.

[Kabooa]

I'm just trying to meme here, guys.

[Kir0s]

BLMs dont meme

[Numenor1379]

Honestly I think BLM is in about as good a spot as the class can get. It will NEVER be a utility class aside from perhaps a Mana Battery every couple minutes. I suppose they could give us BLMs a better Mana Shift, but beyond that what would the class thematically have?

At this point I'm fine with us being the top caster single target DPS (how do SAM and BLM compare on this btw?), top or near top AoE DPS, and have the unique ability of having infinite MP. It also seems like BLM, with the latest buffs, might be making some in-roads into the speed-kill meta (though I'm not 100% sure on what the cutting edge groups are saying currently).

So we don't do progression unless the group is fine with it... meh. I'll take my 30-40k F4 crits and be damn happy. XD

[Duskane]

At this point I'm fine with us being the top caster single target DPS (how do SAM and BLM compare on this btw?)

From what i know they are pretty equal at this point (4.4) BLM being ahead slightly

The buffs helped alot more then people think

[Shiroe]

high dps is needed to progress too .., and blm can probably now replace any dps in the meta, if you just look at its dps numbers..

not all dps need to conrtibute survival, ... and blm is still the best manashifter