Easy Black Mage improvements!!!

[SilverRhyme]

Extend AF/UI to 12-14 seconds, nothing more needed.

Everything else suggestet gets back to OP

If the duration for AF increase, people would just attempt to squeeze in more Fire4s before casting Fire1. The community will always try to find ways to do more, to squeeze in that extra bit, if you increase the potential for something carelessly, the community will abuse it.

Many of the issues being complained about don't change.

[Serilda]

Adding my voice to the list of people who aren't that interested in most of those potentially-overpowered improvements but a 2-second duration increase to UI/AF (the Transpose cooldown would obviously have to increase slightly too accordingly) would be a huge QoL improvement for me. I'm not a perfect player and I don't have a perfect connection, which combined with the unforgiving Enochian timers makes some fights rather frustrating. A tiny buff to the duration would be enough to reduce the chance of losing my fun through circumstances beyond my control, while keeping the risk of messing up the rotation for most mechanics as it should be. The proposal of a 5-second increase is fine too but I think 2 would be enough without being overpowered.

The alternate suggestion by Egnasya would also work. It would need more thought though as it would end up affecting some of our other spells, rotations and proc-based decisions more than a simple 2-second increase to AF/UI/Transpose. I certainly don't mind weaving other fire spells in and in a way it's more fun to use more abilities; it's just the timer as it currently works is extremely unforgiving and makes it harder to be flexible.

[Kabooa]

The -only- quality of life Black Mage needs currently is Thunder turning into Bolt with no mechanical changes, but becoming an actual lightning bolt.

[Kenji1134]

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[Hattorii]

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Its Meaty from Rift

[Galan]

i187 no fire 4 1000 dps on a dummy sustained easily while the best dps for blm i've seen on a dummy is this really convoluted rotation for 1200 dps in where you basically have to stand still. Gl with that in real fights.

[Cynfael]

i187 no fire 4 1000 dps on a dummy sustained easily while the best dps for blm i've seen on a dummy is this really convoluted rotation for 1200 dps in where you basically have to stand still. Gl with that in real fights.

You don't need to wish people "GL with that," because it's been done. It's much less about luck than it is about skill, and it's really not that convoluted....

[hallena]

Gl with that in real fights.

Its been done

[Kabooa]

i187 no fire 4 1000 dps on a dummy sustained easily while the best dps for blm i've seen on a dummy is this really convoluted rotation for 1200 dps in where you basically have to stand still. Gl with that in real fights.

"Convoluted."

You replace Fire with Fire4, use 1 fire to ensure your stacks remain, then go into ice stance as normal, where you use Blizzard 4 + Thunder 1 if you can fit it.

It's about as complicated as basic arithmetic.