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

Okay, overall.

BLM is excellent for speed runs, which in turn are an excellent source of myth tomes which get you I90 gear. So if nothing else, you should finish leveling your BLM, or PLD/WAR, or WHM/SCH, solely for the ability to do Speed Runs to get your gear significantly faster.

BLM is also very good for fights where they can turret, and where things need to be bursted down.
T5 for example, is not a very movement heavy fight, with 2 aoe phases, as well as fast Conflags and Dreadknights that are easier to kill with a BLM than an SMN.

The theme of the new Coil, T6-9, is a lot of movement and mechanics, with rather few hard dps checks, or things that need to be bursted down quickly. (aside from the occasional center bulb in T6)
At this tier of equipment, BLM starts simply falling behind in terms of its maximum dps output, and also suffers the highest dps loss when it has to move. Frankly, BLM is not that great for T6-9, unless you spend a LOT of time "mastering" the movement and mechanics of every single fight... supposedly there's a small handful of the BLM community who has found a way to do amazing dps in T6-9... Though most of us have yet to learn their secret.
That said, by that point, you might as well level Arcanist to 50 and just run Summoner, it simply does better in these more movement heavy fights than BLM.

Still, Yoshida has stated that they will be buffing BLM. No concrete information yet, but we're all hoping that they take our overarching concerns, and some of the more reasonable suggestions into account.