Thread: What I think should change about 3.0 BLM.

Hello everyone, I have been maining lvl 50 BLM in end game raiding content for over a year now. I have practised the new lvl 60 extendedly, farming lvl 60 dungeons again and agian for law, clearing Bismarck Ex, and training Ravana Ex atm (1% wipe ftw ).

I have been thinking about where this new lvl 60 rotation is lacking in terms of viability, fluidness and overall "fun-level". Keep in mind, these are my opinions, after a fair amount of testing and with solid lvl 50 experience, I'm not saying there are no other or better solutions, but these are my 2 cents.

What I think needs to change is this:

Ley Lines:

- This either needs to follow you where ever you go

or

- the area needs to be a lot bigger

or

- this needs to be a selfbuff that allows movement while casting.



Blizzard 4:

- This either needs its cast time reduced to 1 or 1.5 seconds

or

-the cast should stop being interupted when enochian falls off during the cast of Blizzard 4.

or

- both. It's not like we're using Blizzard 4 for its damage output, it's a utility skill, that we use once during Umbral, meant purely for refreshing Enochian. It needs some serious tweaking.



Fire 4 / Astral Fire stacks:

- What we need right now, is either Astral Fire to last 12-15 seconds instead of the current 10

or

- a completed Fire 4 cast should give us 1 or 2 seconds on top of the current duration of Astral Fire stacks, this way, we would still need to weave Fire 1 in between Fire 4's, but this elemenates the heavy dps loss when you have to move for more than 1 second.




I have not yet seen a good lvl 60 SMN yet to compare DPS with and I do not know any details about lvl 60 SMN either, so I will refrain from saying anything about the whole BLM vs SMN debate. Anyone with solid, reliable numbers on "BLM vs SMN" is very welcome to share them though.