Just Delete Picto Please

[Realfoxy]

Because EW BLM really isn’t what BLM is either when you look at the history and progression of the job

If you are using non standard to make close to half your casts instant why do we even have a caster role at this point

This links into a wider problem with the fact that the only fight design square has made since SB being one that actively hostile to casters and as such they make them cast less as a compensation mechanism. BLM also has the added problem of every mechanic they add to it makes it burstier and burstier

The sustained turret is dead at this point, since the flare change per 2 minutes PCT spends more time casting than BLM and the least mobile class in the game is SCH

I don't disagree with you about fight design, but it's a lot easier to just nerf PCT rather than rewind encounter design to three expansions ago.

Also you're just kinda wrong about DT BLM. The job isn't any burstier than in EW, because all of its damage is still on the GCD. And since nonstandard is less accessible now, manipulating your GCD alignment is harder, which means that for 99% of BLM players the proper play is to still ignore buffs and just keep on casting.

I think EW BLM was the best compromise the job had with modern fight design, which for some reason SE decided to completely delete from the game to make a job that IS LESS FLEXIBLE and therefore more susceptible to disruption in the form of extended movement, short uptime phases, etc.

[Supersnow845]

I don't disagree with you about fight design, but it's a lot easier to just nerf PCT rather than rewind encounter design to three expansions ago.

Also you're just kinda wrong about DT BLM. The job isn't any burstier than in EW, because all of its damage is still on the GCD. And since nonstandard is less accessible now, manipulating your GCD alignment is harder, which means that for 99% of BLM players the proper play is to still ignore buffs and just keep on casting.

I think EW BLM was the best compromise the job had with modern fight design, which for some reason SE decided to completely delete from the game to make a job that IS LESS FLEXIBLE and therefore more susceptible to disruption in the form of extended movement, short uptime phases, etc.

Burst isn’t necessarily just about the GCD but what you are actually stuffing into the GCD. BLM got 3 changes this expansion that made it burstier

1) 3rd charge of xeno
2) second charge of leylines (on a thereotical dummy fight this doesn’t change anything but since you play leylines around the counter this helps immensely
3) manafont

BLM is still a god awful burster compared to say…….PCT but it says a lot every change they have gotten since like SB is either a) make them burstier or b) give them more instants

[Realfoxy]

Burst isn’t necessarily just about the GCD but what you are actually stuffing into the GCD. BLM got 3 changes this expansion that made it burstier

1) 3rd charge of xeno
2) second charge of leylines (on a thereotical dummy fight this doesn’t change anything but since you play leylines around the counter this helps immensely
3) manafont

BLM is still a god awful burster compared to say…….PCT but it says a lot every change they have gotten since like SB is either a) make them burstier or b) give them more instants

OK well I guess it's very marignally burstier in theory, but it's still by far the least burstiest job in the game. And in practice you're still not going to really bother with aligning with buffs beyond a random xeno or two, because your top priority is still going to be movement.

Finally Manafont is not a burst cooldown. It doesn't give you a spike of damage at once, the damage comes in an extra fire phase that lasts longer than the entire burst window. It's also strong enough that you'd much rather slam it off cooldown than try to align it with any buffs at all.