Why is BLM getting a buff?

[SDaemon]

if blms need buffs then how come so many parties have a slot for only blm, not blm/smn :\

what are these parties for?

[Jim_Berry]

if blms need buffs then how come so many parties have a slot for only blm, not blm/smn :\

Brayflox HM speedrun;
People want WAR, SCH, BLM, BLM specifically from what I seen. So yeah, I agree with you.

[Mitsukai123]

Thats what BLM is for... AoE.

having a pet for conflagrations in turn 5

Using BLM AoE damage on all Hygieas in turn 5,

Tanks stacking the second and third adds (Lamia) on Melusine to increase overall damage (via blm)

Needing a blm/smn to caster limit break properly on the second spumes in Leviathan X.

the community doesnt play their jobs correctly. Very unfortunate.

[Daniolaut]

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The support of this type of mentality is exactly why BLM is getting a buff.

I quoted Yoshi himself, where he is stating that the players are playing in such a way that is unintended.

We all know there are many ways to clear content, but the fact that the community is playing it in such a way that the benefits of using different jobs to accomplish the tasks they set forth in the already balanced content is why the buff is needed.

So as you and the rest of the community decides to play their jobs in a non maximized fashion the dev's, in order to continue keeping the communities interest, will need to buff/adjust/change the way the jobs work so they can be used in a lazy/easy/pushabuttongetgear fashion.

[Mitsukai123]

so they can be used in a lazy/easy/pushabuttongetgear fashion.

I'm gonna stop you for a second. Just to clarify, you are in support of everything I quoted, correct? The pets for conflags, the stacking of adds on Melusine, needing a BLM to damage the Hygiea? Right? Yes?

Is it safe to assume then that you're also a person who clears Turn 2 by enraging, or Turn 6 by running through the boss during Devour as well? Perhaps you also stack four Renauds in a row for Turn 7 (of course, this would imply you've downed Turn 7)?

[hotroderx]

I quoted Yoshi himself, where he is stating that the players are playing in such a way that is unintended.

I think your taking what Yoshi said out of context. Here the bottom line for running a successful business keyword being successful. Don't ever tell the customers there using the product wrong. They are happy and wanna use the product in ways not original thought of then so be it.

Also reading your posts your very I am right everyone else is wrong. Hate to break it to you but your one person in a sea of millions. Sadly on this subject your in the minority. I personally am a main class blm we do have great aoe and we have pretty hard smashing single target DPS also. The issue is we gotta stand still to cast. This puts us at a huge disadvantage. In all fights even aoe intense fights. Guess what if I gotta move I am adding 1-2-3 secs on to my cast. Yes in movement heavy fights we are at a extremely disadvantage and need to be buffed.

[ZeroRains]

Its very very very unfortunate that people cant play the game correctly and need echo bonus's and dps output bonus' even after Square-Enix themselves properly balanced the content for each job if played correctly..

If we specifically go back to why they buffed Warrior Yoshi himself said "We balanced turn 1 so that a Paladin and Warrior would be less likely to survive after 3 stacks, but because the way the community plays warrior, the warrior is unable to complete turn 1, so we have made the needed changes." So now warrior is much more like PLD with its "defensive" buffs instead of healing buffs as it originally was planned to be, because the community doesnt play their jobs correctly. Very unfortunate.

Find it funny you poke at warriors for getting a buff, because warrior players were unskilled enough to compete with paladin? What a ignorant assumption for the buff. You main warrior, you should understand better than anyone why warrior was broken in its current form. Hardly any mitigation, only defensive stat scaling with hp restore, not incoming damage. There was a reason warrior received the biggest buff of any job currently, its because it NEEDED it, not just because the community couldn't play it. Yoshi refers to the wrath stack mechanic being misused, but because it tied in directly to your "mitigation" and cure potency, it became a mess to try to balance out the two, While paladin could just pop a CD and do it more efficiently every time.

Warrior buffs were well justified, not just because 2.0 warriors were unskilled.

[SeraviEdalborez]

BLM should not have good single target damage.

Can be read as "BLM should not be in endgame fights".

[rockso]

my new rotation fire 3 > full thrust > straight shot > snap punch for gl on pld.

because they can do it why can't i?!

[Woggers]

Wtf.... OP most fights are single target in this game. So you only want a BLM when multiple mobs are being fought which is like 5% of the game. If you're not topping DPS as a BLM in a single target fight that has mid to minimal movement your not playing BLM correctly.