The destruction of BLM

[Brignadalee]

Probably many people talked about this already but i gotta ask why did they do this, enochian wasn't an issue for people who knew how to play the job decently, BLM mains don't like speed mage at all.

SpS BLM is literally one of my go-to jobs for DPS, viability be damned it feels better to me.
Your backside doesn't speak for me, and these changes make the job more approachable for everyone. If part of your job's identity was an arbitrary timer to make it harder while you plan, that just sounds like pain for pain's sake. No thank you, it's bad enough we still deal with server tick issues in boss mechanics.

[ForsakenRoe]

If part of your job's identity was an arbitrary timer to make it harder while you plan, that just sounds like pain for pain's sake. No thank you, it's bad enough we still deal with server tick issues in boss mechanics.

Okay, sure, lets accept that the timer was a pain in the ass and wasn't really adding anything to the job. That's subjective, and others might disagree, but let's just say it was universally accepted that 'the timer has to go'.

But the other aspect of why people are complaining about the changes: Why did Fire4's cast time need to be reduced? The massive increase in mobility, on a Job that was already able to string together up to like 27s of constant mobility if it planned ahead, is the main 'destroyed identity' change, not the timer. BLM was always about long cast times, big damage, and working around that restriction, to plan ahead and know when/where it is safe to plop down and turret, with the payoff being 'damage so high you compete with (and sometimes beat) the melees'. Now the job is two shades away from having a Healer rotation, but without the added engagement that healing brings. Fire4 is Glare3, Xenoglossy is Glare4, LeyLines is Presence of Mind with a 'you must stand still' footnote, Thunder is Dia. It's like Carcinization, but instead of things evolving into crabs, it seems like Jobs here evolve (or devolve, more accurately) into Healer rotations

The whole 'timer gone, BLM is ruined' angle is muddying the waters, if the timer was extended/removed, and that was the only change, then I heavily doubt that we'd be in the conversations we're in

[Daralii]

Okay, sure, lets accept that the timer was a pain in the ass and wasn't really adding anything to the job. That's subjective, and others might disagree, but let's just say it was universally accepted that 'the timer has to go'.

But the other aspect of why people are complaining about the changes: Why did Fire4's cast time need to be reduced? The massive increase in mobility, on a Job that was already able to string together up to like 27s of constant mobility if it planned ahead, is the main 'destroyed identity' change, not the timer. BLM was always about long cast times, big damage, and working around that restriction, to plan ahead and know when/where it is safe to plop down and turret, with the payoff being 'damage so high you compete with (and sometimes beat) the melees'. Now the job is two shades away from having a Healer rotation, but without the added engagement that healing brings. Fire4 is Glare3, Xenoglossy is Glare4, LeyLines is Presence of Mind with a 'you must stand still' footnote, Thunder is Dia. It's like Carcinization, but instead of things evolving into crabs, it seems like Jobs here evolve (or devolve, more accurately) into Healer rotations

The whole 'timer gone, BLM is ruined' angle is muddying the waters, if the timer was extended/removed, and that was the only change, then I heavily doubt that we'd be in the conversations we're in

Learning an encounter and planning cooldown use accordingly to maximize uptime through skill instead of just pressing the button that lights up is artificial difficulty and gatekeeping elitism.