BLM concerns (End Game)

[Xisin]

just going to leave this here so you can see some blm potential end game. I parse well through every fight in this game, like I said it just takes practice and dedication. (this isnt my best parse, just the best recording I have of one.) Every dps in this static group is well over 400, like way over. This is my static - Legacy of Sargatanas PST static.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzt3plGE46k

[drmambo1999]

just going to leave this here so you can see some blm potential end game. I parse well through every fight in this game, like I said it just takes practice and dedication. (this isnt my best parse, just the best recording I have of one.) Every dps in this static group is well over 400, like way over. This is my static - Legacy of Sargatanas PST static.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzt3plGE46k

Thank you. This gives me a good idea for what to aim for. My biggest issue is going to be in the beginning I think. Not knowing the fight in end game stuff will hurt my DPS at first but it has to happen at some point. I wish I could gauge my DPS on ps4. I guess I will just need to find a PC player who can gauge it for me.

[drmambo1999]

Once you learn all your skills being a blm. Your one and only concern is your own luck. The more luck you have, the better your job is. BLM is a luck-dependent job.

To answer the questions about getting into parties... well, sadly, the answer is yes. Still, people tend to choose to recruit other jobs rather than blm in the current state of game.

It is so funny too. I was originally torn between SMN and BLM when I first started this game. I chose SMN at first and enjoyed my gameplay, but was hearing from a lot of people that BLM was preferred over SMN for their burst damage, so I decided since I was torn to begin with I would switch over to BLM to make it easier to get into groups. I ended up LOVING it! The rotation is simple enough but I personally like having to be on my toes and figure out where I can stand and get the most damage in new fights. Now I am hearing the opposite though, that BLMs are having a hard time finding parties. ah Irony XD

[YanderePrincess]

In Patch notes, SMN received a buff of 5% too.

No, actually, it wasn't.

The only dps related buff to SMN was on Ifrit, and at least one of the moves (I forget what the other one is) is a move you'll rarely have him do because you want to keep your egi on obey unless it's titan-egi, because it's better dps (especially on Garuda-Egi) and keeps Ifrit-Egi from using his stun. Even with the buff to Ifrit, it's still better dps for the SMN to use Garuda-Egi, thus no actual change to SMN's current dps.

[YanderePrincess]

Just wondering only. Is Blm equal to Smn now with just 10% buff?

I don't know if we're equal to SMN yet as far as overall DPS, especially in movement-heavy fights (but really, we shouldn't be equal to them in movement-heavy fights, that's their strong point while ours is our burst).

However, this buff not only increased our dps, but all increased our burst capability, so we're now even better at the thing we've always been able to do better than smn. Before, being better burst didn't mean as much because of how much lower our overall DPS was. Now that the gap in overall DPS is smaller and we're -even better- at burst, that makes the strength/weakness aspect more significant. I know at least some people for Second Coil will use BLM for certain turns and switch to smn for other turns, depending on which brings more appropriate tools for that fight. So far, I haven't done any turns where I felt the need to go SMN instead of BLM, myself, but I have that option open. Also, my static runs one SMN and one BLM as our primary make-up, though we both have the ability to switch to the other if we decide we would rather have two blm or two smn for a particular fight.

[ViviAnimus]

To be fair, I don't get this luck part people are talking about. Sure, in some fights you have more procs and you will have higher DPS. I however pretty much deal good damage in all my fights and they are always pretty close to each other. And there is definitely more room for BLM now in parties (at least in Odin). Do not use Xisin as a prime example though. He is - without a doubt a very good BLM - but it's not the norm seeing he gets treated very well by his Bard? Or am I mixing persons up here? I push 430 DPS as an iLVL 106 BLM (High Allagan weapon) with one Requiem that's not battlevoiced.

[Xisin]

i got three reqs, one bv at the beginning, one before the third dread and one normal at the end (they both had it on at the end lol miscommunication so really 2 1/2) the other bv went to paeon as the bards will sing it for one another. This is about what I get every week. I don't actually understand why bards don't sing more often - not like it hurts them that much, so this should be the norm... not the exception. Emp the bard in this parse pulls 430+ on a normal basis (thats with singing 3 songs folks 1 paeon 2 reqs.)

[PenutButter]

BLM is THE highest DPS right now, though they are a bit RNG base. In purely stationary fights, a comparable melee will beat you but not by much. In the majority of the fights though, melee won't beat you, the most they will do is around the same damage in some fights. Oh and did I mention that melee still have to deal with more crap than you? Its not as bad as before but they still have to deal with more crap that you do. In aoe damage, its absolutely no contest, BLMs are so far ahead that the others aren't even on the chart.

So yeah, if you want the most OP DPS right now, play BLM. Judging by the sheer amount of BLMs around since this patch, I would say most people already figure this out. Until SE does something about this, play BLM. If SE don't, then BLM forever.

[Xisin]

monk still does more damage >_> drg does the same while having a pierce debuff for bards... BLM is where it should be a turret dps... actually doing good damage while being able to turret. T6 drg mnk smn still beat us (if you dont do super slug methods) Heres what I suggest to you, (sorry guys some ego inc.) if you want to beat my numbers you can, you just have to step your game up you are a monk I cant beat you on turn 8 if you were gcd for gcd equal or better than me.

SMn beats blm on t7 dps
mnk beats blm on t8
idk who wins on t9 smn or blm havent made my mind up
several beats us on t6 (granted your party doesnt babysit you and break your vines for you - but if thats the case you are forcing melees to break vines.)

A good melee (top end melee not riff raff) can still beat me on alot of fights. But judging by some of your previous posts (including a really funny one of you pretending to be a blm with a single digit level thm) then you are pretty biased.

As yoshida states - blm is meant to be PURE dps. (reads: should beat a smn)

[YanderePrincess]

i got three reqs, one bv at the beginning, one before the third dread and one normal at the end (they both had it on at the end lol miscommunication so really 2 1/2) the other bv went to paeon as the bards will sing it for one another. This is about what I get every week. I don't actually understand why bards don't sing more often - not like it hurts them that much, so this should be the norm... not the exception. Emp the bard in this parse pulls 430+ on a normal basis (thats with singing 3 songs folks 1 paeon 2 reqs.)

Really should see more Requiems from bards in general as it doesn't reduce their DPS at all. Only ballad and paeon do.