BLM Invisible Nerf

[Allyrion]

I got to see the video but I had reached my daily post cap and couldn't reply.

The mana ticks were definitely not 3 seconds.
Please stop spreading this from the OP's casual observation. Anyone like SongJoohee who looked at the video carefully could've seen this.

They did seem to fix the double quick cast, however.
I kept repeating the part of the video where Yoshi transitioned to AF3. What I found was that there was no buff during the casting of UI3 and then he was granted AF3 after the cast.
This could mean:
A) Casting the Fire III removes the UI3 and finishing the cast gives you AF3. (This could mean interrupting the cast will make you lose the buff)
B) It was a natural delay between the buffs which means that starting the cast of Fire III will change your buffs. (This seems abuse-able and unlikely)
C) Something I haven't thought of.

Please don't use either options as something definitive. We will see on Tuesday what the situation is.
Knowing the buff disappeared during the cast is still something. I paused the video during his casting (with the cast bar halfway) and there was no buff but it had not run out of time cause he had just casted it (he skipped thunder to burn the gaol).

The mana ticks were one server time as they always are. Each differed in speed and only one was even close to 3 seconds.

[Waliel]

A) Casting the Fire III removes the UI3 and finishing the cast gives you AF3. (This could mean interrupting the cast will make you lose the buff)

Wouldn't this mean we have to pay higher mana cost for F3 and B3 while switching between stances with those spells? That could very easily end up costing BLMs one Fire cast per cycle, or always having to wait for mana tick to use Thunder or something. I hope I'm over-thinking this.

[Kenji1134]

What concerns me is IF they really did "fix" the double quick cast, for one very simple reason.
I am a Highlander. I have THE lowest racial piety of all classes. I have 3629 MP (239 PIE) with no additional points in PIE, or PIE on any of my gear.
As it stands, I need an extra 12 PIE to be able to do the 5 Fire 1 rotation -> B3 -> T2 -> F3.

My answer to this issue is the double F3 rotation, which lets me do equal, if not slightly greater dps using my bare minimum mana pool.

Now, if they would be so kind as to reduce the mana cost of F1 to 310, so it costs 620 in AF3, and then reduce the cost of of each of the Thunder spells by 5 for example, then ANY race would be able to perform the "ideal" BLM rotation without needing to spend additional points in PIE at the cost of damage.
As it stands, if they "fix" things, I am going to be kinda gimped as a BLM simply because I chose to be a Highlander.

Now the other option, as I am sure someone will boldly mention is to use Thunder 1 instead of Thunder 2... Again, lowering my dps BECAUSE I chose a particular race... When they said that your race would NOT affect your endgame potential.

[LobsterBisque]

Not invisible. They've already said they were going to fix the double flares

[00SevenSword]

All throughout the BLM quests we are reminded how we are sacrificing our souls in order to deal the most destructive power of any class. So my question is, is that still going to be the case? Or have they nerfed us that we're no better than a DRG? Actually worse because DRG has no cast time and can move while dps'ing.