Thread: How would you have changed BLM for 3.0.

Originally Posted by Rongway

Having another thunder spell won't do us any good if we never use it because it interferes with the Astral/Umbral Enochian juggling. Having a Thundercloud-ed thunder spell add a few seconds to the Enochian timer would be a great solution to this particular problem.

I would agree, that is why I said it adds 5 seconds to your enochian timer.

Originally Posted by Rongway

These, or even just one of these, would help so much. An Astral extension needs to be paired with an Umbral extension, though, since the real danger is not in missing a Fire IV cast but rather in missing a Blizzard IV.

Agreed

Originally Posted by Rongway

As far as I can tell, this is working as intended. Take the opportunity to pop a cooldown while you're waiting to be able to cast Fire IV.

It isn't "intended" as such, its an unintended bug from a bug fix to stop ever-flaring.

Originally Posted by Rongway

I haven't found the Fire I cost to be a problem on a regular basis; however it could become a problem if the duration of Astral Fire is increased. With the current duration of Astral Fire, it's possible to Sharpcast -> Fire I and have Astral Fire wear off before the Fire cast is finished, resulting in the unbuffed MP cost. If we get an Astral Fire duration extension, then it would still be up at the end of the Fire cast and we'd have to pay the double cost.

Well, the issue with it is, if you have to use an extra F1 due to movement, you not only lose the potency from when you could be using F4, but because the mana cost is higher, chances are you won't be able to use another Fire 4 later in the rotation. Its double punishment. Remember sharpcast can't be used in every fire rotation.

Originally Posted by Rongway

Besides these, an increase in the radius of Leylines to 5 yalms would make it actually useful in fights with a lot of movement (which is pretty much every Heavensward fight ever).

I think it could do with a slight increase, but too much could end up being too easy.