How is BLM in new expansion?

[ekental]

I have a BLM & SMN @ 60. The flexibility of SMN far outweighs the minor DPS advantage of BLM.

The issue can be boiled down to:

• BLM is high risk, high reward (Enochian loss-> 30 sec penalty at worst and a huge DPS loss)
• SMN is low risk, high reward (worst case you recast 1 dot)

A BLM needs to know any fight really well to maximize their DPS, and their entire group has to plan around them being a giant turret for long periods of time.

A SMN doesn't require that level of knowledge. They can wing the fight and still pump out most of their DPS. Additionally they can do most of it while moving, and Res.

A BLM gets to edge out a SMN in DPS only in the best case scenario where they can turret the entire fight. The DPS increase itself is noticeable, but not large enough to compensate for the requirements it needs.

It doesn't take months of testing in raids to see the glaring disadvantages inherent in BLM. Hoping that SE will plan content to cater to BLM's movement issues doesn't address these issues.