Quote Originally Posted by caffe_macchiato View Post
This thread is for those who prefer 7.2 BLM over its predecessor. I personally do not understand why pushing buttons in sequence needs to have artificial difficulty (or as I call, “fake fun”). Your Astral/Umbral timer does not add anything substantive to the game. As of 7.2, your rotation has not changed AT ALL. The ONLY thing different is a number on the screen. Actually, something did change: you’ll finally be able to do mechanics! Your party members will be so happy with you that they’ll let you back in Party Finder.

Now, I know what you all are thinking: this was YOUR class, right? You in The Balance Discord who hoard “theorycrafting” “strategies”? You don’t want those “other people” playing “your” class. If BLM becomes a class for plebeians, you’re no longer special. Is that it?

I’ve been playing this game for over nine years. Black mage has never been difficult. You chose to make fake fan theories and write a whole book based on babble from The Balance Discord server. Well, guess what? It’s my class too. I’m not in your Discord, never have been, never will be, and most importantly, I don’t care about your “theorycrafting” or your “meta”. Black mage is the press-fire-then-ice class. That’s it.

If you don’t like it, please unsubscribe. Better yet, please liquidate The Balance Discord and all associated publications. This game belongs to the people.
Either you never played BLM pre-7.2 or you're of a huge bad faith. The core rotation indeed didn't change, but all decision-making regarding the job is basically gone. Using Xeno during AF could be an issue with the timer, which again required some decision-making on the go. Now, you can just dump your Xeno stacks whenever you need mobility or to prevent orvercapping without a second thought. You needed to know when keeping Triple/Swift for mobility was needed and when you can just use them for DPS gain. Now it's purely mobility tools, use them as you need them. Paradox now serves no purpose, it's just an instant F4 that you dump whenever you need a little bit of mobility.

There's already 20 other jobs out there, most of them being already idiot-proof. Do people wanting a little bit of complexity really cannot have a single one ?

As for your weird rant about The Balance, I'm not even gonna say anything.