Flare and Holy got nerfed.

[Kayokane]

I honestly see nothing wrong with the Holy change because honestly if there is more than 4-5 enemies I'm probably Divine Seal + Presence of Mind Cure II'ing the tank... don't really see the justification for doing it to Flare Though.

Also how would the game decide 1st 2nd 3rd?

[MetaRed]

As a Blm Mage I'm not thrilled with this.... seems like a half assed way to make it more difficult to speed run through stuff.

If you want to make it harder to speed run content nerfing a skill isn't a way I would like to see developers deal with that... I'd rather you know make dungeons more dangerous so you are not willing to pull several groups at once.
I'll let the theory crafters evaluate this but seems like flare will be out of the rotation except for openers at this point.... No use in blowing the MP otherwise and the downtime is too great for this to be worth it in my opinion

[Kit-Kat]

it's about time. now maybe people will actually try during dungeons instead of flare and holy spam until the dodo come to roost.

Until you get tired of a dungeon because you'll have to farm it 30+ times for whatever thing we'll have to farm it for (relic for example).

[Kuurei]

I blame all the peeps who didn't pull dungeons with honor.

This is your reckoning sirs and madams, and I name thee all cowards and cravens.

[reillyblair]

seems to be a blm nerf every major patch lol

[Kuurei]

seems to be a blm nerf every major patch lol

Yoshi usually buffs them somehow later down the road, though.

This is his main class after all XD

[Seku]

Not a blm main. But I don't see why they really did this unless they've done this to all the aoe's on each individual job. Because blm or not....I still mass pull and this just seems to kinda kill what the general BLM population is good at, killing multiple targets fast.

If they really want to make it to where we don't mass pull...they should nerf cures or make the mobs actually hit hard, because that is and will always will be the factor that allows it. Rather if it's still worth it or not at that point is a entirely different story.

[Kuurei]

Not a blm main. But I don't see why they really did this unless they've done this to all the aoe's on each individual job. Because blm or not....I still mass pull and this just seems to kinda kill what the general BLM population is good at, killing multiple targets fast.

Well, technically, you can still Fire II spam, not like they nerfed that. Ofc, they're essentially telling you to use the AoE that matches potency with DRG over using your best one constantly :P

Thought one of the new skills was AoE too though? IK WHM's Aero III is AoE.

[Zohar_Lahar]

I'm glad they're finally crushing speed running.

[MetaRed]

It's worth noting that the fire 2 potency is confirmed to be the same, and fire 1 is getting a 10 potency increase. (Screenshots are in the purostrider Blm guide thread) so fire 2 is still viable AOE and likely still higher than other jobs... But that flare nerf seems atrocious the more I look at it.

Depending on how it shakes out in potency versus fire 4 in an opener I wonder if it will even be used in openers anymore