Quote Originally Posted by Galvuu View Post
These are all wrong, but the third one is super wrong. Clipping your gcd is a minor loss (in fact, if you clip for a Triple and get a Despair and Flare Star under it, it's a gain, if you only get one, it's pps neutral). BLM having "healer casts" with recast being longer than cast doesn't help that much in mobility beyond letting you slide cast more easily and without a loss.
The real problem with BLM is that your so called "mobility tools" are also your burst tools. So, each time you blow a Xeno or a Triple outside of burst in a way where you won't have that charge for burst, you lost burst damage. In a vacuum, this isn't a problem- it becomes a problem because of the strictly enforced 2-min meta nonsense and the multiplicative nature of raid buffs.
I have no clue where you got this idea that "no weave slots" are a "big obstacle to BLM mobility".

rewd already corrected you on your take that PCT is more mobile than RDM anyway. It's definitely more mobile than RDM, but PCT definitely hurts a bit when you need to to stop-run-stop-run nonsense for 12 seconds or something (Honey B. classic). Holy in White need to be build anyway. But you're correct in saying that Smudge is very powerful. I've stated it somewhere else, but smudge should be the standard for caster mobility tools. They should make AM work like Smudge asap.
One important thing to note about mobility is that we can't really make broad statements such as "XY is more mobile/immobile". Different jobs have different movement profiles, different resources and different ways to stock them (if they can even do that). Movement also come in many different ways: for example, it can be 20s of interrupted movement, or it can be 1s of movement every 4s and so on.

You said that PCT is more mobile than RDM but Snow said that RDM is more mobile (specifically, they said PCT is the most immobile job after BLM), and I think both of you are wrong and right at the same time. It depends on the specific mechanic, if not overall fight, really. For what it's worth, I also find RDM more mobile, or if you prefer, easier to navigate. But one thing Valence said I do agree with is that there is a certain degree of subjectivity when it comes to movement.

Anyway, it's indeed weird that this evolved into a PCT discussion (again) but I can't take so many hot takes at once and I had to contribute to the topic derailment lol