7.0 BLM Changes will kill the job

[Zadood]

Wonder if we can get people to stop putting Yoshi-P on a pedestal, because the only reason he saved FFXIV was by copying WoW. It's becoming evident that Yoshi doesn't know how to make an interesting RPG with these continuous bad decisions. Just look at FF16 as an example.

His game design philosophy has seems to be shifted and started priotize accessibility and mainstream instead of niche, which is quite common across JP game developers in general, like how both Armored Core 6 and Elden Ring being much more accessible compared to their prequel-counterpart.

But then again, if he really learned from WoW, I highly doubt we will be getting what we have here now in DT.

[Zadood]

What does Yoshida's opinion matter, really? He has bigger fish to dry than battle content and job design. There should be a team with people working specifically on this that should be tasked with delivering an engaging, fun experience.
To make an analogy with another game, it'd be like saying "Mark Merril plays these champions and he said they're great!" when they're in a horrible spot/poorly designed. People would laugh it off, what does the CPO's opinion matter on an area that isn't his responsibility or expertise?
Yoshida could say this new BLM will improve my life quality a thousandfold and it wouldn't change the fact the job is getting absolutely butchered.

I for one hope that the BLM change is going to make the Yoshida's sing-praiser start to wake up and smell the coffee.

[Abdomsisn]

Yoshi-P doesn't even play this game so much and that's why he wants to change BLM to be easy as SMN, he becames that kind of player who want's to get decent damage and get clear the Ultimates by just pressing one button.

[caffe_macchiato]

I was told three years ago that the official rotation was the Fire IV/Blizzard III/Blizzard IV that is now being enhanced. We have been told for years to abide by the standard consensus per The Balance Discord and other places. When, in the last three years, did they change the rotation? And who authorized it? Because anyone reading their tooltips would believe that the standard rotation as mandated to us three years ago was the best one. Anyone who forces a change upon the community after max level has been reached is just doing so for selfish reasons. Probably "minmaxers" who obsess over their color number on a certain website.

We have been told time and time again that there is a very limited way in which we can play our classes, and if we "freestyle", we are "trolling". Now those same people are getting upset that their freestyle Transpose gimmick is being rightfully thrown out.

[Ohgr]

These changes only exacerbate the blm movement issues that stops so many people from enjoying them, the recovery will be awful at low levels. in addition the movement tools from thunder procs and instant blizz paradox are gone, removing valuable recovery and movement tools.

i'm sure there are many ways to fix this, but i hope it's known at no point does the community want the skill ceiling to be lowered, it's okay to bring up the skill floor to allow easier introduction, but that should never come at a cost of over simplifying the game.

[Voidmage]

I was told three years ago that the official rotation was the Fire IV/Blizzard III/Blizzard IV that is now being enhanced. We have been told for years to abide by the standard consensus per The Balance Discord and other places. When, in the last three years, did they change the rotation? And who authorized it? Because anyone reading their tooltips would believe that the standard rotation as mandated to us three years ago was the best one. Anyone who forces a change upon the community after max level has been reached is just doing so for selfish reasons. Probably "minmaxers" who obsess over their color number on a certain website.

We have been told time and time again that there is a very limited way in which we can play our classes, and if we "freestyle", we are "trolling". Now those same people are getting upset that their freestyle Transpose gimmick is being rightfully thrown out.

You know I accept when people like the changes or think they are good. Thats fine and I am happy for them.
What I don't accept is this stuff here (I hope its a joke).

Almost no BLM main cared if you did standard rotation even in savage content, the damage gain was just not enough. Those who did were not even a minority.
You did your standard rotation? Good.
You kept uptime? You are a good player.
You did non standard? Cool, don't see it often but nice.

I say this as someone who didn't parse, didn't use an addon for server ticks and did the first EW savage fights in standard rotation. If your only argument comes from those "evil parsers and toxic elitists" then you already lost.

If this is was sarcasm, I apologise. If not... I won't even answer. I'm getting to old for nonsense discussions and even this here was probably already to much.

[HighlanderClone]

How much you wanna bet that BLM got gutted because someone on the dev team got his feelings hurt that he can't parse 99 on his private account since nonstandard is too big-brained for him (even though you dont even need nonstandard to parse 99).

[Ohgr]

I was told three years ago that the official rotation was the Fire IV/Blizzard III/Blizzard IV that is now being enhanced. We have been told for years to abide by the standard consensus per The Balance Discord and other places. When, in the last three years, did they change the rotation? And who authorized it? Because anyone reading their tooltips would believe that the standard rotation as mandated to us three years ago was the best one. Anyone who forces a change upon the community after max level has been reached is just doing so for selfish reasons. Probably "minmaxers" who obsess over their color number on a certain website.

We have been told time and time again that there is a very limited way in which we can play our classes, and if we "freestyle", we are "trolling". Now those same people are getting upset that their freestyle Transpose gimmick is being rightfully thrown out.

this is jsut an awful take and not representative of the blm community. you can absolutely use standard, but the fact that there are options in a rotation makes it good design.

[MagiusNecros]

Fun detected. Nonstandard gameplay rejected.

[Themarvin]

I think it is a good idea alone due to you are using skills you really are not going to use for combat anyway for real for some kind of pointless regeneration proces that can be fixed in other ways... other Magic based jobs don't waste Mana the same way anymore as it is for an instance and need minimal maintenance.