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

[Archwizard]

That's the trick, though, isn't it? If they run only off of stance, spammables (costs greater-damage uptime), or bankable resources, you can never really be "out of defensive CDs". Long CDs like Manaward, Second Wind, or Bloodbath would have issues, but if we actually expand on the native kits instead... no problems.

Shurri, I love you, but you gotta stop editing in your responses to posts made after yours -- most of us only know a response has been made when the post count goes up. I just reread obsessively when the thread's too quiet for too long.

But it does lead us back to problems with other job kits like RDM, DRG and Ranged, who either lack personal defenses or only have group defenses they can't stack.
For other jobs though, like SMN, SAM or MNK, it would give actual reason to regularly use their defensive stances.

But, that's for another thread.