Dispensers of fiery explosions, light me up... with your ideas for BLM in 5.0

[DarkZeroUnit]

More specifically it hurts your party members so they GET THE HFIL OUTTA MY LINES

i was thinking it be party friendly

[Lauront]

Yeah but the BLM is the center of the universe and their job is to simply adjust to that reality.

[Kalise]

Yeah but the BLM is the center of the universe and their job is to simply adjust to that reality.

BLM...

Universe...

Gosh darn it, now I want BLM's to be able to use Ascian Prime's Universal Manipulation skill...

[Lauront]

BLM...

Universe...

Gosh darn it, now I want BLM's to be able to use Ascian Prime's Universal Manipulation skill...

Trust me, that Ascian Prime boss fight had me reeling with envy... that's one fight I hope they find a way to make its way into an ultimate one day, if not from the dungeon version, maybe in connection to Emperor Solus. It's one of my favourite bosses and I'd love for them to inspire BLM from its ability set from it a bit.

[ksuyen]

Does Black Mage always do elemental damage? Fire, Ice, Thunder, why not Rock, Water, Void as well. Ok, for argument sake, Earth and Water elementals belong to WHM, why not Void / Darkness (which is also going with the theme next expansion).

I would also like to see they revamp Schyte and make it elemental: Shatter for ice, Immolate for fire, Spark for Thunder. Basically a GCD instant cast with decent damage, however include additional utility. Shatter to increase ice damage, immolate for fire DoTs and Spark for consuming the remaining Thunder dots.

[Shurrikhan]

If blm total potential dps goes down even slightly, it only makes smn a better choice in every aspect. I don't want to go back to that again.

You're literally never going to beat a SMN's tDPS regardless in a BLM comp, simply because of how much contribution you feed it via the AF phase per rotation. Technically, siphoning a bit from the AF phase for increased flexibility and non-AF damage would reduce your dependence on them for composition optimization.

That said, an equally skilled BLM can already hold its own as a competitor for a single Caster slot. When the fight requires little downtime, they often exceed it in tDPS (since, without the BLM there, the SMN isn't taking a 10% rDPS bonus check from the BLM's every other AF phase).

*tDPS = pDPS plus rDPS given, minus rDPS received.

[Seraphyel]

Is there a reason why Black Mage hasn't gotten Ultima yet? I mean, why Foul instead of Ultima? Ultima is the most iconic Black Magic spell in the FF universe (maybe next to Flare) and we haven't seen it yet in game. We already have the White Magic counterpart Holy since ARR that's why I find it really strange that SE until now refuses to properly implement Ultima.

Maybe it will be BLM's level 80 spell after maintaining Enochian for 60s?

[Kalise]

Is there a reason why Black Mage hasn't gotten Ultima yet? I mean, why Foul instead of Ultima? Ultima is the most iconic Black Magic spell in the FF universe (maybe next to Flare) and we haven't seen it yet in game.

Technically, we have.

During the Praetorium duty, Lahabrea uses the Ultima Weapon to cast Ultima. Which destroys literally the entire place and the surrounding area, causing far, far more devastation than Gaius van Baelsar had intended.

[Seraphyel]

Technically, we have.

During the Praetorium duty, Lahabrea uses the Ultima Weapon to cast Ultima. Which destroys literally the entire place and the surrounding area, causing far, far more devastation than Gaius van Baelsar had intended.

Maybe I should have added "as a player action".

[Neela]

cause ultima would cap the toolkit - "most iconic, most powerful spell" -> alright lets get it with a fancy animation and such... but than? ...than Blm would face the same issue Smn faced after getting Bahamut: Primal of the prime Primals... but whats next? what should come after Bahamut/Ultima? there is nothing more powerful for these cls in the ff lore universe than those iconic skills... what about next expansion?...