So BLM on FFXIV.

[Majidah]

Now, I might be talking out of my ass here. But bare with me.

I had leveled THM to 36~ before they completely redesigned the job. So after hitting 50 with WAR and taking a break from leveling I finally decided to take up THM.

Boy was this strange.
Its like, I thought it'd be like on XI in which you had to wait up pace yourself in as to not pull hate, then dish it all out after the enemy's already a bit weakened.
Completely wrong. But we'll get back to that in a second.

At first I just assumed all my elemental spells were the same thing but of a different element. Wrong again.
Thunder tier spells = single target, they combo. Thundara in combo is fast-casted. So great.
Blizzard tier spells? They don't combo. No, but one inflicts heavy and the other bind. And the one with bind is AOE. But I thought man, this is one of those things that never trigger off... wrong. The spell is fast-cast and inflicts bind pretty much always.
Fire and fira? They combo. And they are AOE. And they do DOT. So great for multi enemy battles.
Sleep? Sleepga? NO RECAST TIMER! My god! MY GOD.
Freeze? It lowers your hate by a FUCKTON. Seriously, you can go from blinking red to green basically.
And flare is this awesome AOE that casts regardless of your target dying or not!


So back to the story. So after testing out all these spells and seeing how well they perform and how totally overpowered they are in terms of damage I realize: its not about pacing yourself. Its about distance and hate control!

Flare hits everything? Just toss a sleep at one, or freeze at the other. Or hell, sleepga if you're feeling it (although mobs go down so fast its not even worth it).
Toss blizzara and run away, then follow with a fire combo. Mobs are done!

Run out of MP, BANG! Convert and you keep going.

We might not have stoneskin but we get decoy and feather foot. Plus healing wind to heal ourselves every now and then which is specially nice after convert.

So yeah, so far I'm seeing BLM as this bitching hate juggling dynamo instead of the usual fragile figure that hides in the back lines. I'm sure it won't be like this in boss battles, but in its every day use? So great. And different!

(oh and our job abilities? we get m acc +, reduced spell cost, converts damage to MP, converts to HP, all sorts of useful stuff! Its pretty damn hard to run out of mp if you keep using these even without refresh)

[Akira_Tenshi]

I used convert once and got killed by a dodo it was embarrassing.

[Scarface]

Now, I might be talking out of my ass here. But bare with me.

To be honest, I stopped reading here.

[Griss]

Blm is a blast in big and small fights pun intended.

[Seirra_Lanzce]

To be honest, I stopped reading here.

lol? why?

Majidaah just talking how awesome is BLM... @_@

[Answa]

Now, I might be talking out of my ass here. But bare with me.

Ok!

[Wynn]

To be honest, I stopped reading here.

Then why post?

@OP

I like BLM. Wish the damage was better since you lose the versatility of THM, but overall I like the job and how it plays.

[Majidah]

I forgot to add that thundaga is broken and needs to be fixed. Seriously. Thundara is fast-cast on combo and does more damage and gets resisted less often.

[Zaaku]

I have both my Blm and Whm 50'd and at this point I'm having a hard time picking my next job.

None of the melees seem to even come CLOSE to the pure destructive power Blm can put out and all that retargeting after a mob dies and chasing things around seems like such a hassle. Being on Blm is more like sitting in an ops center and launching tactical drones at targets from a few dozen miles away and watching the pretty explosions. The melee just seem so boring ~.~*

[Akira_Tenshi]

I have both my Blm and Whm 50'd and at this point I'm having a hard time picking my next job.

None of the melees seem to even come CLOSE to the pure destructive power Blm can put out and all that retargeting after a mob dies and chasing things around seems like such a hassle. Being on Blm is more like sitting in an ops center and launching tactical drones at targets from a few dozen miles away and watching the pretty explosions. The melee just seem so boring ~.~*

I felt like this after getting BLM and WHM to 50. I am now trying archer and so far it is great and feels pretty powerful.