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

[Lauront]

The intention isn't for the AF extension to cause Burst to replace F1, just to give provide additional GCDs within AF so as to cram Thunder spells.

But, all the numbers were placeholder and it's an early draft. Purely spitballing.

The thing is though, would retaining Fire I have much of a point to it? Its main benefit besides refreshing would be being eligible for Firestarter. I think unless it were to be replaced by something like a Fire V, there would be little loss of gameplay by just extending AF as noted by Kabooa and rolling the chance for Firestarter into Burst - or if that is too jarring, having Fire IVs which consume Umbral Hearts have a chance to grant it, adjusted for their higher rotational frequency.

Fire I is a lacklustre spell visually and it’d feel forced to keep it in the rotation when Burst adds to AF.

At this stage it is due an upgrade, but anything proc based is inherently better suited to Fire III, eg the proc people suggest for converting Fire I to Fire V (a la Ruin IV) would better suit Fire III as it’s easier to confine optimal usage of the spell to when Firestarter is up. However, I’m not hugely fond of the proc-based idea and I think Fire III is in less urgent need of an upgrade. Maybe if, instead, Fire V replaced I, inheriting all of its traits, and added some Excruciate style effect you could get more traction out of it. Just something beyond its current function to give it an interesting role to fill.

I’m quite fond of your ideas in any case. With a visual spruce up for Flare, they’d make for a nice change of pace to the core rotation before we even veer much into the new spell territory for 71-80. I’m guessing Burst would be the first of these - unless you intend for it to replace some other, existing spell?