Thread: So no buff till 2.3... how about a compromise to tide us over?

Nice simple request.

Back in the 2.1 series of patches, the devs put a small "bandaid" fix on going from UI3 to AF3 using Fire 3, such that ~2/3-3/4 of the way through the cast of Fire 3, you lost your UI3 buff and any potential mana tick you may have had.
At the same time, they "synced" the UI ticks to the server clock, as opposed to them being synced to the character, occurring 3 seconds after YOU got the UI buff, regardless of the global timer.

The effect of these 2 changes was immediately felt. Everyone's dps went down, and the once smooth BLM rotations (HA! Cause 2 chance based procs is "smooth") became visibly clunky and unpleasant.

So right now, BLM is be all sane accounts dead last in its dps potential, AND the most punished by the latest endgame mechanics... And it is to stay that way for another 4-6 weeks while we await the potential ST overhaul.
I am concerned that in another 4-6 weeks while we wait for our buff/fix, BLMs will have become like the "old" Warriors... You bring them for Brayflox SRs cause they kinda suck everywhere else.

A simple solution while we anxiously wait for the promised, yet undisclosed changes, would be to undo the bandaid fixes applied to BLMs back in 2.1x, to give us back some of the dps and fluidity that we all came to love at the start of the game.
Assuming there is some record of legacy code, OR the bandaid fix on UI3->F3 can be simply be revered or just commented out, then we can (with little effort) bring back some of BLM's old dps, so we wont all be quite to restless while we wait for our adjustments.