Dear Square Enix.

[Firon]

No bind, gravity? never checked elemental weaknesses and cast the apropriate spell (XIV it's kind of pointless because your only single target power combo is thunder regardless of resists) at best you can avoid thunder resistant mobs and seek out thunder fearing foes, but we all know that's a far cry from the flexabillity blackmage had in XI.

No need to bind or grav if your sleep was gonna land everytime. You can bind and grav stuff in this game as well ppl only know how to play one way. Also the onlything you needed to check in XI for ele weakness was to see if it resisted thunder or ice cause even if a mob was weak to lets say earth both of those spells did more dmg.

[Hikozaemon]

No need to bind or grav if your sleep was gonna land everytime. You can bind and grav stuff in this game as well ppl only know how to play one way. Also the onlything you needed to check in XI for ele weakness was to see if it resisted thunder or ice cause even if a mob was weak to lets say earth both of those spells did more dmg.

Not if you actually had decent gear sets like i did. then most often the element weakness spell always did alot more dmg for me and sometimes even saved me MP. But then again i stopped playing blm at one point and started using pup which seems to oddly ignore alot of those problems entirely.

[Jynx]

No need to bind or grav if your sleep was gonna land everytime. You can bind and grav stuff in this game as well ppl only know how to play one way. Also the onlything you needed to check in XI for ele weakness was to see if it resisted thunder or ice cause even if a mob was weak to lets say earth both of those spells did more dmg.

So you pretty much decided to not play Black-mage properly then? Casting elemental spells on the proper monsters especially when taking weather and the elemental day into consideration could get you much more damage than just blindly casting Ice/thunder.

Gravity/Bind were your standby skills while waiting for sleep cooldowns and to avoid terrible moments if/when your sleep was resisted after you woke the mob up.

Of course I only speak of XI pre 99 playing blm properly at 75 took some time and knowledge to do properly. There was alot to take into consideration to make your glass cannon worth that party slot, or to get mad exp solo.

[Firon]

So you pretty much decided to not play Black-mage properly then? Casting elemental spells on the proper monsters especially when taking weather and the elemental day into consideration could get you much more damage than just blindly casting Ice/thunder.

Gravity/Bind were your standby skills while waiting for sleep cooldowns and to avoid terrible moments if/when your sleep was resisted after you woke the mob up.

Of course I only speak of XI pre 99 playing blm properly at 75 took some time and knowledge to do properly. There was alot to take into consideration to make your glass cannon worth that party slot, or to get mad exp solo.

No it wouldn't any good geared blm who played XI will tell you that casting Ice on a mob who is weak to earth is much better idea. There was no need to bind or grav a mob when you could kill it in 2 cast.

[Jynx]

No it wouldn't any good geared blm who played XI will tell you that casting Ice on a mob who is weak to earth is much better idea. There was no need to bind or grav a mob when you could kill it in 2 cast.

So again, you never fought much worth fighting if it died in 2 casts. Now if you were burning Beastmaster pets that's one thing.

[Firon]

So again, you never fought much worth fighting if it died in 2 casts. Now if you were burning Beastmaster pets that's one thing.

Did you even play XI? Everyone who played blm could see from the start that thunder/Ice was leagues ahead of All the other spells its a reason why ppl merited those spells only. There is no point of casting Stone IV on a mob who is weak to earth when it does 900 dmg when you can cast Thunder/Ice for 1.2k dmg+

[Jynx]

There is no point of casting Stone IV on a mob who is weak to earth when it does 900 dmg when you can cast Thunder/Ice for 1.2k dmg+

If you were trying to be MP efficient in longer fights yeah 900 damage could often beat out 1.2k damage at nearly half the MP cost...