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

Originally Posted by Umero

I don't understand that. It's already unfair right now because if you ever play a melee, you don't have to face your target to activate your skills, you just have to be within range.

First...casters and BRD can do that too...

Not facing the target prevents auto-attacks for melee...which can be a good 30% of our DPS.

You only turn to (and can activate) skills when not looking at your target if you have face-target on...same as a caster. Without it on, if you're not facing your target you can't attack, melee or ranged (only exception is healing, any offensive action requires you to be facing your target to execute). Want more proof? Get bound and try to attack something behind you as a melee, or even slightly to the side...you can't do it.

Originally Posted by Kiokin

...People play with auto-facing on? I turned that crap off as soon as it made me run back into an AoE in a guildhest. Just spin your camera around.

I really can´t say i feel any disadvantage with my BLM as Main....

i never hear critics so my playstyle should be OK ...

so buffs? okay, sure, make me even more badass ^^ but right now, i cant complain.

I presume you are not starting on said adds with a fire III so you'll be on a 2.5 sec cast? If the adds aren't close enough a smn can't bane and is in the same boat of a 2.5 sec cast of facing the enemy. You do realise you can stand on the side the adds spawn and cast while they run in thus negating this problem? If you are on the wrong side you are facing the rest of the platform so they should always be in LOS. IIRC the spike in the centre doesn't block LOS. Or if you can turn and face the add while casting, you can use the F key for this or mouse (not sure about ps3/ps4).

Another strategy is wait for it to reach the tank and continue to dps your current target before switching when the add has stopped moving or gets stunned in the case of some adds. You can do this in levi ex and T6-8. Moggle mog the adds move at a snails pace except thief and when the mogs move in position for tri-disaster. T9 if the adds are being picked up properly your ranged barely have to move anyway to keep facing their target. It isn't much of a problem if you plan only a little bit ahead, which is why I don't think blm should become the exception to the rule. I think the reason that healers don't need to face their target (from a balance prespective) is because players move far more frequently than the enemies in any given encounter, having heals miss because of LOS would cause no end to problems.

Also you think moving adds are a problem for blm, try hitting an erratically moving mob as melee, or for positionals as they bounce around in the party as you say.

Originally Posted by Exstal

It's like static electricity when rubbing socks on a carpet.


...I strangely like it.

Pretty much. The theme is that when you are standing still, you can channel your own energies for maximum efficiency. When you run around, you cant really use your own energy, so you instead absorb energy from the air (as you move) and store it within yourself for later use. Granted, you can only store so much.

Heh, really the 500 max potency restriction is for balancing purposes more than anything. If there was no cap, or a much higher cap, then you could have a BLM run around spamming Scathe while building up some retarded amount of Burst potency... Now do this in pvp... run run run, run run run, run run run... Oh! Burst now has 9001 potency... Instant Melee LB3 on the healer! MWAHAHAHAHA