Will BLM ever get a party buff?

[Shiroe]

Nope, Blm will never get party buff., unless it wants it's dps to drop as low as Smn's atm

[Aztectornado]

Ninja is a buff job with trick attack. Samurai, Black Mage, and Machinist all have no party buffs apart from their respective role actions. They are the "selfish" jobs that have higher personal damage but don't gain any damage through buffing other party members.

I thought Machinist had that one party-wide defense buff?

[Azuri]

I thought Machinist had that one party-wide defense buff?

Tactician/Shield Samba/Troubadour are just a role action in a trench coat. BLM has Addle like every other caster.

[Madoka]

I forgot about AM that would be another skill to replace. AM is terrible on console, you can easily be dead by the time you target someone with the dpad. So now we could add three totally new skills! and have better mobility with the teleport in any direction than all these other movement skills combined. I’m sure people would like three new interesting and engaging skills without adding more hot keys. I’ll throw this out there maybe high dps melee range skill(s) SMN and RDM both have melee range skills. We now have a teleport to get in or out of melee range.

You should probably setup some macros for AM and put them on an "oh shit" crossbar. Assign one button to each party slot, make them muscle memory and then you don't have to worry about trying to target somebody specifically. Make the Dpad the tanks and healers, and the other face buttons the other 3 dps.

[Aztectornado]

I forgot about AM that would be another skill to replace. AM is terrible on console, you can easily be dead by the time you target someone with the dpad. So now we could add three totally new skills! and have better mobility with the teleport in any direction than all these other movement skills combined. I’m sure people would like three new interesting and engaging skills without adding more hot keys. I’ll throw this out there maybe high dps melee range skill(s) SMN and RDM both have melee range skills. We now have a teleport to get in or out of melee range.

You should probably setup some macros for AM and put them on an "oh shit" crossbar. Assign one button to each party slot, make them muscle memory and then you don't have to worry about trying to target somebody specifically. Make the Dpad the tanks and healers, and the other face buttons the other 3 dps.

I play controller too, and I have mine setup on a 'submenu' sort of macro. Macro 1 copies its hotbar into 5 for safekeeping, then grabs hotbar 6 and copies it over itself. Hotbar 6 has buttons for all 7 other players, and the macro on that button will spam AM on them 5 times in an attempt to combat lag, then copy the original hotbar back into place. the 8th button is Cancel, and just copies the hotbar back without casting AM.

Macros -

Go to...
/macroicon "Aetherial Manipulation"
/chotbar copy BLM 3 BLM 6
/chotbar copy BLM 5 BLM 3

#2 (replace 2 with 3-8 for other macros)
/ac "Aetherial Manipulation" <2>
/ac "Aetherial Manipulation" <2>
/ac "Aetherial Manipulation" <2>
/ac "Aetherial Manipulation" <2>
/ac "Aetherial Manipulation" <2>
/chotbar copy BLM 6 BLM 3

...Cancel
/chotbar copy BLM 6 BLM 3


I also use something similar for my Astrologian Play and Minor Arcana actions, and even setup a submenu for my class selection hotbar. All the ARR classes (Gladiator, Rogue, Archer,etc) have seperate hotbars that are free real estate for setting up quickswap hotbars like this

[Absimiliard]

High DPS or a substantial party buff. Choose one.

[ZiraZ]

High DPS or a substantial party buff. Choose one.

but you can have both if you're monk or reaper and also utility

[KizuyaKatogami]

High DPS or a substantial party buff. Choose one.

meanwhile smn in shb

[zcrash970]

but you can have both if you're monk or reaper and also utility

That's why a lot of raiders are confused on why yoshi is considering buffing monk. It's current dps with mantra and brotherhood is a bit much already. If we balancing jobs based on how busy they are then that's fine but by what metric are we basing that on? CPM or how many resources a job has? Like mnks opener is busy and burst is busy, but outside of that, it is simple.

meanwhile smn in shb

Tbf they could never balance smn and still can't... I blame the fact that they can't stay with one version of the job. This version will either change in 6.2 or in 7.0, it honestly can't stay the same unless they aren't planning to add anything to it in the next expansion

[LilyPendragon]

I hope it never does. I like that my DPS pretty much solely relies on my own execution, and I don't really have to consider fitting certain things into buff windows other than maybe a pot and a manafont for a double despair, or as many xenoglossies as possible. I don't want BLM to become another fit y amount of x into your buff window.