Please reconsider 7.0 BLM changes

[Valence]

No it’s a combo of 2 things

1) to get this new skill you must press 6 fire 4’s, this means “short lines” (ie rotation loops where you don’t get umbral hearts so you don’t have enough mana to cast 6 fire 4’s) are pretty much gone since you basically need to do 6 fire 4’s now
2) you now need to cast a spell (presumably an ice spell) in umbral ice to get mana back rather than just being in umbral ice. Most of the “non standard” play in BLM involves transposing into umbral ice then casting large gain spells like thunder 3 or xenoglossy to skip casting weak ice spells like blizzard 3 and blizzard 4

The changes in DT are removing both of these situations

It surely feels like it was not intentional of them, am I right?

[Supersnow845]

It surely feels like it was not intentional of them, am I right?

Oh no it 100% feels intentional

If you asked me “what two changes could we make to BLM that would most effectively kill non standard lines” this is exactly the two changes I would suggest and I’m not even a good BLM, I just have more theoretical knowledge of BLM optimisation than I should for my skill in the job