Quote Originally Posted by Keichi View Post
Question:
Would it be truly dead?
Non-standard was practicly to go into ice, use any spell, except ice (because it to weak), until mp is ready and go back to fire (i never understand, why you wouldnt collect the ice shards).
At last, if the cut wasnt false, does it look like, that ice phase is extremly short.

By the clip of WeskAlber, was the blm in Ice mode with 3 soul marks and 0 mp (mean, he probably used blizard to enter that mode).
After 1 freeze, was the mp allready back at maximum. So, that he was able to go back into the fire mode.

Isnt that even better, as what non-standard had yet? It looks to be faster as before and gives all needes ressources.
Well, you pretty much answered yourself, the whole point of non standard is to avoid using weak spells(blizzard 3, 4 and weak fire 3(when you change from ice to fire))

It is confirmed that when you use blizzard 4 on umbral ice 1 and 2 it gives you only 2500 and 5000 respectively, making any non standard line non viable as you will only be able to cast a few fire 4.

If this BLM iteration stays like this on release, the only optimization you can do is: use an instant on umbral ice phase(thunder or xeno), transpose into astral fire 1, and then you use fire 3 proc, you would skip the weak fire 3 casted from umbral ice to astral fire. Another one would be do a b4 b1 paradox line but that's just a niche thing to align your gcds with manafont/movement which 0.2% of players will use so.

No MP regen under lv 76 is really dumb, I don't understand how they could have missed that, hopefully it gets fixed before release.

Let's not forget jobs change quite a lot between media tour and the actual expansion, in EW, blm was quite different in the media tour in comparison what we've got nowadays.

Non standard is completely dead, and it's intentional. Now let's see if they can listen to feedback about the rest otherwise it'll feel really clunky.