Quote Originally Posted by Aysin View Post
As I mentioned before, people who struggled to play BLM before are still going to struggle with BLM now. They may have removed the fail state but the skill floor is still low compared to the other class. If you can't hit your GCDs because you didn't plan movement for mechanics, nothing has changed. New players will still drop this job after some time if they require more accessibility because SMN is still significantly easier.

All this change did was remove a large amount of engagement from the job mechanics and slightly lower the skill ceiling. Players who try new BLM are still not gonna plan their movements, they are still not gonna stack Xeno for burst, they most likely will still clip GCDs in order to weave, and interrupt casts from mechanics.

And then you still have the "problem" of transpose lines being prominent, with Firestarter AF1 and Tpose swift blizzard 3 netting 260 something potency per cycle. Not to mention Firestarter without the need to refresh AF is actually a loss and a new player using it not for movement or Tpose Af1 will lose even more damage. Since the need to refresh timer with firestarter does not exist this ability is now just a noob trap.

These changes are inherently poorly planned and miss the mark on who and why people play this job currently, and how to bridge the gap between lowest to highest skill gaps.
Ofc there is a huge difference, if i dont hit my gcd and run and everything is good after or if i dont hit my gcd run and dropp enochian which is a way heavier dps loss then just not casting for 1 sec or 2