Brd/Mch was fixed, will BLM be fixed?

[Rafaelhades]

So I heard that I could come here and complain about BLM Dmg needing to be fixed. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3Sy89m5rrQ )

As a "Fixed!" Machinist I could not agree more can we bring them down to our level.

(pss... unless you are also maining a level 60 Machinist/Bard please don't say they are fixed k thxs)

They are fixed k thxs

[Verius_Nox]

If it's a QoL fix, then by nature it's not necessary.

Whether or not you think the risk/reward ratio is on target, blm has the potential to put out viable numbers in all fights, and very competitive numbers in certain fights. It's not broken.

It's a QoL fix because it's not a buff or a nerf, but it's still necessary to the state of the class.

The amount of risk involved in the BLM rotation is significantly higher to perform mid-range DPS. In high tier content, it will get to the point where teams will ask the BLM to roll SMN instead, simply because it'll do more damage on the more movement heavy fights, has better AoE with all the new spells SMN got, and has less risk involved in its total rotation so a simple mess up doesn't cause you to lose to a DPS check. Simple QoL of fixes will make the risk lower, and the gap between the overall viability of the two caster classes becomes shorter. The reward is the same as it was before. There is no reason to be against these QoL fixes.

I mained monk for a long time, and a boss mechanic that made you lose greased lightning stacks was a dps loss, sure, but I was never locked out of greased lightning for 30seconds because of it.

[Ellsian]

I mained monk for a long time, and a boss mechanic that made you lose greased lightning stacks was a dps loss, sure, but I was never locked out of greased lightning for 30seconds because of it.

What's even worse, if you press the buff even 1 second too early you could be locked out of your abilities for almost a full minute! What a joke.

[Waliel]

One very specific mistake and your DPS would tank. But it was not difficult to avoid.

Sometimes that "mistake" is random unavoidable damage interrupting your cast. You should've heard me when the A4 boss randomly fired a laser at me when I was casting B4, interrupted the cast, and made me lose Enochian.

[hallena]

I posted it in another thread but i think that would fix most thing, if not everything.
They could just take the easy way out.
Allow blm to cast fire IV and blizzard IV without enochian.
We still want enochian up for the damage boost but if it run out because of mechanics and movement. we lose 5% damage instead of 40-50%
The rotation dont change. Firestarters and thundercloud are worth using again.

[Teiren]

I haven't levelled BLM to 60 yet, but I get what he's saying. It's similar to the major problem Dragoons are having with Wheeling Thrust and Geirskogul. Gameplay should be fun, not just about it working in spreadsheets like WoW. Increasing Astral Fire/Umbral Ice duration doesn't even sound remotely overpowered or even a DPS increase to me. Also the thing about using Enochian before its duration expires sounds weird and incredibly stupid to me too.

I do sympathize with the fact that it's very difficult to determine just HOW punishing movement should be for casters. It's a tough and touchy subject. Movement should impair casters, but it does sound like BLM is punished far too much for it, similar to DRG and its new positional abilities, but way worse than that. It doesn't matter if BLM is balanced overall, like if, for example, you made their DPS 150% of normal while not moving and 50% when they have to move some. That may be balanced, but it's probably going to make the player feel stressed and awful.