SHB BLM is the peak of this game's job design

[Archwizard]

I dispute BLM being the peak of design. It still has a couple of niggling issues left in it. For instance, it's still too easy to clip oGCDs on fire/blizzard 3 casts, Sharpcast as of level 74 can probably be turned into a passive for Fire 1 now and boost the proc chance of thunder 3, all the QoL changes that arrive post 70 can arrive much sooner, and the elephant in the room, the fire 4 rotation should arrive much earlier in the leveling process than it actually does so players don't get bait and switched.

But these are relatively minor. BLM is much better now than it was in SB, which itself was much better than it was in HW. Without overhauling the class at this point, there's not much more that can be done to BLM short of upgrading abilities like fire 1 or allowing ley lines to not only follow the BLM but let the BLM cast on the move (yoshi please).

The class is in a really good spot right now, that much is certain.

I think the only things I can think of now are --

• Despite Freeze replacing B3/B4 in the AoE rotation, we still use F3 to swap in AoE instead of Flare 'cuz Hearts take priority over Aspect Mastery
• We never want to use Scathe, so it still contributes to bloat
• F2 and B2 contribute to bloat after we get Flare and Freeze (I'd argue B1 does after B3 but I suppose there are niche cases)
• We rarely want to pop Thundercloud during ST AF due to the Enochian timer (which can lead to wasted procs), and Thunder itself has no connection to Enochian
• Lack of self-sustain without a pocket healer (only job without a self-heal for emergencies)

... Very few of which really affect the current position of BLM in a raid environment, and none too heavily I'd say.