Ty SE for BLM changes!

[hotdamjam]

If we don't have a job that completely breaks if they can't keep a timer rolling in certain circumstances, then the devs no longer need to worry about trying to design fights around that one job with strict timers.

Im going to relate the astral timer on BLM to the songs for bard. I don't think it was a timer issue, they just added the potential for bards to cast their songs without needing a target. If the devs were worried about fight design + strict timers, they would have made this bard change ages ago.

[Daralii]

Im going to relate the astral timer on BLM to the songs for bard. I don't think it was a timer issue, they just added the potential for bards to cast their songs without needing a target. If the devs were worried about fight design + strict timers, they would have made this bard change ages ago.

They explicitly said that the BLM changes were made to accommodate faster DDR in fights.

[Auro_Seldaris]

They explicitly said that the BLM changes were made to accommodate faster DDR in fights.

Im going to relate the astral timer on BLM to the songs for bard. I don't think it was a timer issue, they just added the potential for bards to cast their songs without needing a target. If the devs were worried about fight design + strict timers, they would have made this bard change ages ago.

Here's the article where the statement is quoted btw, if you "need the receipts" hotdamjam:

https://www.pcgamesn.com/final-fanta...ck-mage-rework

The result is a twofold rework: various actions have lower cooldowns, and the Astral Fire and Umbral Ice statuses “will no longer expire.” This is a result of the fact that “future battle design may cause difficulty with casting spells,” implying that upcoming instances may focus more on fast-paced fights that don’t give you a lot of downtime to channel long cooldown spells.