Thread: What I think should change about 3.0 BLM.

Originally Posted by Xenitan

\Some Black Mages think stuff like "letting Fire IV proc firestarter" or "Having Fire IV renew astral fire" or "I want to be Godzilla overpowered" is the solution. Really, just make the class less punishing and clunky

How do you make it less clunky and punishing without doing something like that? Increasing AF duration reduces the punishment on aoe, but it's still clunky. I'm not sure how to make it less clunky without removing F1 from the rotation somehow. What do you think would work and solve the problem?

Originally Posted by Kailii

How do you make it less clunky and punishing without doing something like that?

Just change how Enochian works. Blood of the Dragon works really well by comparison.

Make Blizzard IV do 200 potency but have a 2 second cast (this is lower dps since you will have to wait for the GCD to expire) and add 25->20->15->10->5 seconds to the timer as opposed to overwriting it. This way it's beneficial to activate Enochian at any time since you don't need to get every single second out of the window.

Or make Fire IV and Blizzard IV not require their respective Umbral/Astral stacks, but casting them removes the opposite element if it's up.

Or whatever. There are so many solutions that aren't "let Black Mages have a spammable 504 potency (280*1.8) 3 second cast spell"