Quote Originally Posted by Taranok View Post
I am glad BLM is finally not going to be a special snowflake. The class has been in a quasi-unique state for so long living in a double standard that the players forgot that the devs don't like nonstandard play, and nonstandard has been a serious blight on the game in general. Be it a 2% increase, or 40% (as with SMN in HW.) I also am happy the devs are finally removing server tics. That is literally an ARR mechanic and has needed to be fixed for a decade.

The last thing BLM needs to finish its transition into modern play is to remove the AF/UI timers and, bloat removal, as timers are a relic dating back to, literally, ARR. Bring the paradox mechanic down to level 60 and timers can straight up be removed. Bloat can be dealt with by just streamlining bad aspects of the design.

Good riddance to nonstandard, I won't miss you.
Honestly, yeah.. you hit the nail on the head. Black mages have run around as the untouchables since it's inception because it's the producer's main job. It's kinda nice to see them fall in line with the more rigid rotations everyone else is forced to deal with, and truth be told, it will still be a popular job regardless.

Finally this point goes to a recurring thing in several job related posts since Live Letter, all of this is based on speculation. The Job Action Trailer and Live Letter gives us such minimal information that very few jobs can really infer anything from. Also the calls for jobs to "revert these changes before expansion launch" is a hilariously bad take. (Not saying OP said to do it before expac launch just a recurring thing lately.)

You all do understand that the expansion was... balanced around these job changes right? It's not just go in press button and revert to last save state right? Like fights were designed with these actions in mind. They're already working on next expansions job reworks.. so like minor things may be adjusted but chances for a full reversion of job changes.. is just.. a flight of fancy.

Anywho, media tour info will be here soon enough and that will answer a lot of questions and still leave more.