Why is BLM getting a buff?

[Sleigh]

Except weapon, all the gear are shared between Blm and Smn. why not people just play both class and use Smn for single, Blm for AoE. Then you would end up being good at both.

I don't see why Blm people need to be only Blm.

Weapons as of right now. It's a heavy investment to either get an Animus or spend 1300 tomes + sand + tomestone to get the i100/i110 weapon. Since i110 weapons are such a huge upgrade over i95/i100, once you buy a weapon you're basically locked in that class efficiency wise until you obtain another weapon somehow.

Weapons, and people like to play different classes so you have different gear priorities (not fun to have the same ideal BiS as other people in your static), play styles, and in this case, it can be nice to have the on demand burst and AoE of a BLM, even if in current raids those aren't needed in the slightest.

[silentwindfr]

what bother me is.... the black mage is a bit weak only in particular situation... if they try to balance the class around this... what will happend in the other situation where the black mage was good? will he become more good?

[AlyssaFhey]

I think a more suitable solution would be just to make more BLM friendly content. Maybe some content involving less moving, or maybe 3rd coil can feature multi-bosses or something so AoE is useful? There are plenty of solutions that don't require nerfing other classes or buffing BLM more than it needs(lets be honest, it's pretty OP over all).
Besides that DONT YOU DARE TOUCH MY DRG, SE!! It's hard enough to remain competitive DPS-wise with the insane rotation we have >_>

[Ghastly]

If Black Mage's cast time gets reduced to nothing then they better do that for Summoners as well because their poisons are definitely not instant aside from Bio I

[Rosy]

If Black Mage's cast time gets reduced to nothing then they better do that for Summoners as well because their poisons are definitely not instant aside from Bio I

If Summoners' cast time gets reduced to nothing, then they had better give Black Mages a pet....you can go on like that forever

[Dashuto]

Maybe a buff that lets you cast while running for a little while?

[Adrian74]

I honestly hope they won't nerf Monk. Is it true that I have used all DPS and so far the one I love because it is outdpsing the other classes (Or maybe because i just love it a lot) is the monk... But there are lazy bad monks, normal monks, and good monks. They can't nerfe this job, a bad lazy monk will deal less in single target than standard BLM. (Standard because it is not exactly a difficult job to use after all, neither risky)

It would be sad that a monk that is all the time moving and hitting correctly by the flanks and from behind would deal a normal damage than other class do just by sitting around.

[Behb]

Like someone said before, the new coil is not well adapted to BLM, that's the main issue ...
If coil 2 had an aoe style turn like t4 and t5 (a bit), the overall coil would be quite balanced for all classes.

But even then, monk is clearly overpowered in single target, I ve done a alt monk (i88 at the moment), and he outparses clearly all other dps classes ~i98 in T6 (like 20-30% more dps). We had no smn that's maybe why.
Not try other turn yet, but that's insane, I just have the extreme claw. And i don't think I have the perfect rotation.

I was really depressed when i return to my i100 blm that do less dmg than my i88 monk ;_;

[Hiruke]

Like someone said before, the new coil is not well adapted to BLM, that's the main issue ...
If coil 2 had an aoe style turn like t4 and t5 (a bit), the overall coil would be quite balanced for all classes.

But even then, monk is clearly overpowered in single target, I ve done a alt monk (i88 at the moment), and he outparses clearly all other dps classes ~i98 in T6 (like 20-30% more dps). We had no smn that's maybe why.
Not try other turn yet, but that's insane, I just have the extreme claw. And i don't think I have the perfect rotation.

I was really depressed when i return to my i100 blm that do less dmg than my i88 monk ;_;

I believe Second Coil doesn't favor BLM because it's a tighter dps race in Turn 1 with average iLVL 95~ or so gear than most all previous content. As a result, you clearly feel the lower dps of BLM, whereas it wouldn't have been such a problem previous to this. If everyone's dps isn't top notch, you have to do more acrobatics to deal with mechanics, etc. BLM was around on par with MNK before they gave a flat increase to melee damage, so obviously when that happened MNK became clearly superior in any scenario where they could leverage their damage efficiently.

I don't believe MNK is overpowered in terms of single target damage. DRG is pretty much on par with them. BRD is only a bit behind. Depending on the specifics of the fight, SMN is either ahead of them, equal to them, or a little behind. BLM is clearly behind pretty much every other dps, by a wide enough margin to notice. I play with MNK, DRG, BRD, and SMN in my group, and everyone is pretty good. I personally play SMN/BLM/BRD, as needed, for whatever I do, and I basically only use BLM for myth speed runs, bc AoE, yo. If you're "clearly outparsing" everyone else with inferior gear as MNK, then everyone else is either a BLM, a BRD, or pretty horrible at their job (or your parser is broken, or a bad parser).

The main problems with BLM are 1) the PvP nerfs and 2) luck-based mechanics. It's kind of funny that even after nerfing Blizzard 2, BLM manages to face smash everyone on AoE, but the real annoying PvP nerf was halving the damage on Scathe, as well. Basically making your "on the move" damage pretty much garbage. Thanks, SE. Then, on top of that, whether or not you do even decent dps relies entirely on how many times you proc Firestarter and Thundercloud. If you're the luckiest person on earth, your BLM might seem competitive. More likely than not, however, you're going to be pretty awful. Unless every fight is like Garuda or Turn 4 and you need to clean up a ton of adds. But wouldn't it be kind of boring if every single fight was set up the same way? Hence BLM needs to not suck completely on single target, which is the present reality.

Personally, I would hope that they'd let you set up Firestarter and Thundercloud rather than luck into it, or completely rethink the single target rotation. Doing something like just making Fire an instant cast and calling it a day wouldn't work, because BLM has weaker damage on a single target even in the most optimal scenario.

[KaneTW]

I believe Second Coil doesn't favor BLM because it's a tighter dps race in Turn 1 with average iLVL 95~ or so gear than most all previous content. As a result, you clearly feel the lower dps of BLM, whereas it wouldn't have been such a problem previous to this. If everyone's dps isn't top notch, you have to do more acrobatics to deal with mechanics, etc. BLM was around on par with MNK before they gave a flat increase to melee damage, so obviously when that happened MNK became clearly superior in any scenario where they could leverage their damage efficiently.

Are you high? T6 was a joke even in i90.