How is BLM in new expansion?

[Adventica6]

imo any of the casters aren't that amazing at the moment, any of the melees can keep up or surpass their dmg while not being penalized for movement, in the 3sec is takes for a blm to cast one spell I can do 2 skills + some ogcd skills, which adds up over a fight, if a caster makes one mistake their dps is gone, where as melee we just use another instant skill...

mobility is king in any mmo, nothing will ever change.

[Arg0n]

I can need some opionions/advices to Enochian.

After the opener, we extend Enochian up to 25 secs.
If we got a lot of movement now, sometimes i come a bit in trouble to extend it after 2nd Rotation up to 20 sec again.
Is it worth to stop my Rotation (maybe i could do one more FireIV, but Enochian would fall of after this) and cast Ice III and Ice IV after it, just to get my Enochain again before it falls off on cooldown? Cause otherwise i may not have Enochian for about 5-10secs (depends on when you refresh it to 25secs).

And as a European on a server stationed in Canada, it's quite hard if I just have to do 1 step cause of boss mechanic to stay in my Rotation. Astral Fire could be really increased up to 12 secs

Atm i'm just like "Naahh just one more F4 before i move --> baaam too late and a insanely hit from boss" in a orange area from boss. But if i would move, i may have to recast FireI too soon (/lose 1 FireIV) xD

[HeavensSword]

imo any of the casters aren't that amazing at the moment, any of the melees can keep up or surpass their dmg while not being penalized for movement, in the 3sec is takes for a blm to cast one spell I can do 2 skills + some ogcd skills, which adds up over a fight, if a caster makes one mistake their dps is gone, where as melee we just use another instant skill...

mobility is king in any mmo, nothing will ever change.

You're trivializing movement's detriment for melee; maybe it's because you play NIN. Movement and mechanics can still greatly effect Melee DPS, especially MNK and DRG because of how these classes work. Missing a positional, while not the same as interrupting a cast, is still lost DPS. Losing GL or BotD is a major DPS loss.

The difference is a 1200 DPS parse on a dummy vs. a 800-870 parse on an actual boss. This can get better with experience on a particular fight, but you'll never get those dummy parses in practice due to movement and mechanics.

[Aikaal]

You're trivializing movement's detriment for melee; maybe it's because you play NIN. Movement and mechanics can still greatly effect Melee DPS, especially MNK and DRG because of how these classes work. Missing a positional, while not the same as interrupting a cast, is still lost DPS. Losing GL or BotD is a major DPS loss.

The difference is a 1200 DPS parse on a dummy vs. a 800-870 parse on an actual boss. This can get better with experience on a particular fight, but you'll never get those dummy parses in practice due to movement and mechanics.

I agree, movements means it's nearly impossible to hit 100% positional for melee. Even more true during progression.

[Adventica6]

You're trivializing movement's detriment for melee; maybe it's because you play NIN. Movement and mechanics can still greatly effect Melee DPS, especially MNK and DRG because of how these classes work. Missing a positional, while not the same as interrupting a cast, is still lost DPS. Losing GL or BotD is a major DPS loss.
The difference is a 1200 DPS parse on a dummy vs. a 800-870 parse on an actual boss. This can get better with experience on a particular fight, but you'll never get those dummy parses in practice due to movement and mechanics.

I am not a mnk or drg, movement doesn't affect me, I don't have gl or botd, and I have a passive 10% or so movement speed, what I was getting at is a caster is punished way more for a mistake than a melee, and nin being punished the least of all due to mobility and not having stacks to maintain.