Ty SE for BLM changes!

[Aelin_Ashryver]

Well let's be honest, if you're a caster: they already gutted SMN as you pointed out, RDM is a hybrid caster at best and frustrating with how impotent it feels. That left BLM for true caster mains, and the sad thing is that's arguably still the case.

But BLM is simpler than PCT now. It's simpler than SMN. It's primary damage rotation is on par with White Mage right now. Hell, I would argue White Mage DPS is more complicated because at least you need to consider your Lilies for Blood Lily stuff. At least in AoEs, there's an illusion of choice with how to manage Holy. BLM doesn't even have that.

The way fight design is going, I can kind of understand removing Timers. Fine. But removing Timers and giving BLM nothing in its place to necessitate a proper rotation is not okay. This would be like if when they reworked SMN, they didn't even give you your summons and all you had to do was Ruin spam, with the odd Aetherflow.

Also you're talking about being pointlessly hostile to people yet you're turning down honest discussion to get into a fight? Really? Are you wanting to talk Black Mage or are you just looking to argue on the forums for its own sake?

I was quite content to leave my initial post to stand on it's own. I've made my point and didn't discuss further with others because I had nothing to add or detract. I responded because they quoted me and were rude about it. Some people are unhappy with the changes and that's perfectly valid. SMN could do with some complexity being returned for sure, but I am much happier that it actually matches it's name and expectation I have for a summoner, when I was new and found it to be more of a dot mage with only the occaisional cool summon I was disappointed. Although much as I do love bahamut I was not thrilled to see them just tack on another version of bahamut to it for dawntrail, that feels really lazy. I like others was hoping for something like Odin, Ramuh, Shiva to be added as alternatives to Ifrit, Garuda and Titan.

I said already I enjoyed the slow BLM style a lot, I never liked sps blm at all. I wanted slow casts with big meaty hits. But given how much movement is in the combat encounters even the slower cast time is still feeling alright to me and I am enjoying the job still. It could still be made better, thunder still needing you to swap element is seeming laregly pointless for instance. And I hope in 8.0 they lean into the big booms aspect and change up the astral/umbral phase. I've as much to dislike over jobs being made more samey and simple in the name of broader appeal as anyone else given my three mained jobs in stb were AST, MNK and DRK. I've never been able to enjoy DRK since. On the plus side the newer classes having much less button bloat and more approachable rotations means I've been able to recruit more friends to play who fell off other games due to have to many buttons to spam, *cough* WoW.