BLM 6.x speculation

[waifugenerator]

The job already feels so balanced and fluid that I dunno what they could add without disrupting that. Only thing I can think of is a reward for spending Polyglot stacks — maybe something similar to Shantotto's rage mechanic where your casting speed and damage increase without being confined to ley lines? Discuss x

[Brandedblade]

tbh the only thing I'm seeing as a possibility is tier V fire and blizzard for bigger booms and a skill that interacts with thunder, like a Fester or Sidewinder like effect.

[waifugenerator]

tbh the only thing I'm seeing as a possibility is tier V fire and blizzard for bigger booms and a skill that interacts with thunder, like a Fester or Sidewinder like effect.

Burst could probs fill that role while finally rounding out our Flare-tier spells. I hope BLM gets minimal ability additions and mostly focuses on traits and potency/animation updates to already existing spells just cos the rotation feels soooooooo good right now

[SpeckledBurd]

Fire II gets a trait that turns it into a means of switching to AF3 in AOE, sort of like what they did to Freeze to switch to UI3 in AOE. It'll probably have it as a low level change and not something that gets earned from leveling 80-90 like another job might get because it's the developer's baby.

As for the rest of the kit I really don't know how they could expand it. Maybe an Ice equivalent of Despair that would grant an immediate stack of Polyglot or something, but I'm not sure how that would effect the flow of the job.

[Cled-cat]

Give BLM Ultima that can only be used after expending 2 Polyglots. Who doesn’t want to see Ultima? Also give them Fire 5, Blizzard 5 and Thunder 5. Their rotation and kit is basically as fluid and complete as can be so I don’t see them tinkering with it too much.

[waifugenerator]

Fire II gets a trait that turns it into a means of switching to AF3 in AOE, sort of like what they did to Freeze to switch to UI3 in AOE. It'll probably have it as a low level change and not something that gets earned from leveling 80-90 like another job might get because it's the developer's baby.

As for the rest of the kit I really don't know how they could expand it. Maybe an Ice equivalent of Despair that would grant an immediate stack of Polyglot or something, but I'm not sure how that would effect the flow of the job.

They should just make flare cost 0 MP and not reduce Umbral Hearts while you're in UI3

[Jukebox12]

Give BLM Ultima that can only be used after expending 2 Polyglots. Who doesn’t want to see Ultima? Also give them Fire 5, Blizzard 5 and Thunder 5. Their rotation and kit is basically as fluid and complete as can be so I don’t see them tinkering with it too much.

BLM's won't get ultimate due to lore reasons

[Kabooa]

BLM's won't get ultimate due to lore reasons

There are like twenty different Ultimas in the game.

I'm sure one of them will fit.

[Eliadil]

I mainly hope for only simple potency adjustment, and maybe a slight damage buff on your targets affected by thunder or aoe thunder. Best thing would also be to allow instant cast when swapping from AF3 to UI3, and the same for the opposite. It would make Fire/Blizzard 3 instant in the rotation and would allow for more movement/weaving tools. And maybe some cooldown reduction on leylines, like going to 60sec.

This is all that I can think of, the job is kinda perfect right now and I suspect we will see a massive BLM rework soon in 6.0 or 7.0 because otherwise it will just reach a "MNK" point, where every action added does more or less the same thing and is kinda useless.

[waifugenerator]

If it does get a rework I'm hopeful it'll feel good to play since it's Yoshi-P's main and it's very obvi that he keeps a close eye on it