Ngl I completely forgot about my own thread lmaoo:

So they've brought ice paradox back and buffed potencies, that's a good start. The umbral soul QoL is welcomed too (losing the stacks while watching a cutsecene or using a zip lane was awful)

However the issue with thunderhead buff running out during long fire phases is still present, they should just increase it to 45s, or honestly? Just make it a normal dot like a healer, like what's even the point of the buff?

With ice paradox back, you'll be using it almost every single time for transpose and insta fire 3 proc for dps gain, I've been in a lot of situations where the F3 proc literally runs out, or even worse, you cast the animation but you don't get astral fire 3, instead you only get AF 1 ruining everything lol(is this a bug btw?). (This scenario happens if you run low sps and you use 3-4 xenos during burst window making the proc run out, not biggie for casual player as they don't use transpose but hey, had to mention it)

I know both issues are easily solved with sps set but every single caster in this game runs low sps, so melding sps just for blm is just awful.

I still don't know how to feel about flare star, it just feels really underwhelming for a lv 100 finisher spell, you don't really use it super often, the animation is weak, and dmg is not even that high.

Aoe rotation pretty much is the same, now flare just does more damage, and you still don't use high fire 2 at all because it's only 100 potency, big copium but I'm sure they'll touch aoe at some point in next patches.

I'm going to be completely honest: while I do miss non standard play, I still have a blast doing content with BLM, because it's the most unique job in the game and you're doing fights in hard mode and I love that shit, being able to have 100% uptime in some chaotic mechs and encounters gives you ton of dopamine, using despair+flare star+4-5 xenos back to back during burst feels really amazing as well.

If they want to keep AF paradox instant, make the timer 17s, yes, you can just use Fire III proc to extend it, but it's just extremely bad, not only it does less dmg than a potential F4 but you also lose the transpose tech losing a ton of DPS for literally no reason.