Do you think the devs intended multi-flare blm?

[Gormogon]

3.) I crit my flares for 32xx with 110 weapon and overall ilvl100, WITH food, WITH raging strikes AND Foe in a party. so stop talking bs

I can crit that high and I don't even need FoE.

I can be overly dramatic and sarcastic too.

I sure am talking bs because I guess I never run myth/soldiery farms and when I do I don't bother having my eyes on the screen and mobs just magically drop before me. God forbid numbers popping up on my screen showing how much damage my abilities do.

Honestly don't bother replying back since you are now on my ignore list.

[HitoYuudai]

just looked up on your overall posts..

Just what I expected from you. Accuse others of you own shortcomings in order to try and deflect the fact of how irrational a person you are. I almost feel sorry for you.

Careful, you're gonna have the whole forums on the ignore list at that rate.

stuff like this is replied to you over and over, looks like it doesn't make sense to try argueing with you

[DoubleT]

they designed the system, so ya i think they intended it lol seriously tho, as a fresh 50 blm, it doesnt take you long to figure out that the best use for convert is multiple flares, so ya i think they intended it.

[Amaret]

I can crit that high and I don't even need FoE.

I can be overly dramatic and sarcastic too.

I sure am talking bs because I guess I never run myth/soldiery farms and when I do I don't bother having my eyes on the screen and mobs just magically drop before me. God forbid numbers popping up on my screen showing how much damage my abilities do.

Honestly don't bother replying back since you are now on my ignore list.

Srsly, just give us a Screenshot for prove and this discussion is done :P

[Gormogon]

Srsly, just give us a Screenshot for prove and this discussion is done :P

I will once I run Brayflox.

[Nadrojj]

Just wondering what people think about the outbreak of black mages across eorzea using flare multiple times in quick succession.

I wonder if the developers had this kind of rotation in mind; it does such huge damage compared to other dps roles that it has pushed the popularity of BLM far above everything else, at least on my data center I expect to see at least one BLM in all high level dungeons 95% of the time.

Beyond the multi-target damage being greatly overpowered compared to all other dps roles, it also draws such huge enmity which rivals tanks, at least paladin anyway. I was just in a Halatali run on my paladin where I used flash twice on a mob, followed by a basic combo, followed by flash twice more. Immediately after the 4th flash, the enemies ran to the black mage.

I didn't think it was even possible that they could do more enmity than me while flashing; I was already forced to spam flash more than normal and it still was not enough. Yes I was in shield oath and with i96 gear level. Keeping enmity was never a problem before the mass outbreak of i95+ blm spamming flare we have now. It's changed the game.

Sounds like a bad tank complaining about being a bad tank and blaming it on another class. I run bayflox with two blms and never manage to lose hate. You were prob noobing it up without shield oath.

[HitoYuudai]

join the darkside alias his blacklist, amaret!

[Ooshima]

join the darkside alias his blacklist, amaret!

Quite a lot of us on that best gear in coil thread are already on ignore list, simply he couldn't handle the valid arguments.

[Sadana]

Until I get Quelling Strikes (I'm working on it currently ^^; ), there is a reason I prefer to go with a WAR tank as BLM and a PLD tank as SCH. ^^;;; For now, I stand closer to the tank than I ordinarily would so he can pull mobs off me when needed. Gear makes a difference, of course (I often run with a PLD who is about 15 ilvls below me). I would suggest making good use of BLM downtime to regain enmity. No matter what, if I'm heavy handed with the aoe, I know mobs are gonna come gnaw on my kneecaps. I deserve it for not watching my own enmity.

[Moirear]

Every single one of my SR's with Two BLMs has -ALWAYS- been faster than a BLM and any other DPS, always, no exception. You say 'That cant be true, bosses take longer' I say, get better at your job, because it's worked damn well for me hundreds of times.

Somewhere, I've heard that petty insults and profanity will help get your point across and convince people of your opinion. Do let me know how that works out for you.

I'd just like to remind you that you're arguing with an idiot here. So even if you're a million times a better BLM player than me, I can say with a lot of idiotic confidence, that from all the times that I've tanked it, healed it, and DPSed it across six different jobs total, BLM+BLM is not the composition you want for the fastest BrayHM speedruns, even if you do another few hundred runs with it and continue to belittle me as sharing a "mere opinion."

1.) I never mentioned anything about sacrificing spell speed and I never mentioned anything about favoring crit. From my point of view 490 feels like the butter zone for spell speed how stats changed from ilvl 90 to ilvl 110 is something I wont bother with.
2.) Never did I say they were the best DPS job. I'm saying that their design has a balance and a flaw. Yet people are focusing too much on the flaw. Every other DPS job has a flaw not just BLM.

So, when you wrote that I was doing good while I wrote that that BLM is essentially the best AoE DPS job but not anymore when I proceeded to also argue that the job is pretty bad when it comes to single target dps or being forced to move a lot, then proceeded to repeat what I said in different words, you... wait, what was your point exactly?

I can tell you what my point was: the OP of this topic is implying that BLM is too good of a DPS job and soon people will only be playing BLM. I disagree and make a point that BLM has strengths and weaknesses like any other DPS job, and underline this with the fact that you don't usually see people going to fight Twintania or brave higher turns of Coil with 4 BLM, or that a lot of people make a point of not bringing 2 BLM to a BrayHM speedrun because there are more efficient DPS job setups for that.