Easy Black Mage improvements!!!

[Aphotic]

Hello,

First off, I am not a normal forum poster, and I have not read all the previous forum posts to its entirety, so I do not know if this was posted previously. I also am not in my thoughts a LEET BLM, but I enjoy the class and have done so since I first subbed. I have noticed a few things personally that would do wonders for the BLM in this 3.x age that would both help and also give us back our glass cannon feel. Please don't rip apart my suggestions, as they are just that. Ty.

1. First suggestion: Since 3.05 we were given a "buff" to Enochian in the patch notes. It was there to allow us to refresh Enochian back to 30secs each time we utilized blizz IV. This would have been exceptional and on the right road for us, however, if others have noticed, it hasn't taken effect even now in patch 3.07. So I would suggest to actually owe up and give us that which was listed in the previous patch notes instead of hallow promises.

[Aphotic]

2. I would also suggest that Enochian could become a regular buff, that doesn't have a timer, and won't fall off. That it remains active until cancelled, similar to other buffs that other classes have to increase their damage. This would get away from the whole moving and it falling off discussion and afford movement in certain instances. Now for the Blizz IV, since that refreshes Enochian, it would be obsolete, but not if you allow it to be granted higher potency and to give UI III status.

3. If the above is outrageous, I would also suggest maybe an extended timer on the Astral Fire and Umbral Ice statuses, Similar to increases to other timers afforded other jobs/classes. I would suggest to increase the timers from 10secs to either 15/30secs to give more of a mobility in harsh fights and allows more flexibility in our rotation.

[Aphotic]

4. I also suggest to take away the nerfs of our Flare, its a class skill that was famous and was useful. Our AoE use to be marvelous, but it was too harshly nerfed and should be restored back to its previous status, affording the increase in lvl and gear for our lvl 60 selves.

[Aphotic]

5. I would also like to see some modification of our other talents/spells. We rarely utilize or have need for most of our other spells. Sleep?! when and why to use it now, and if used, it has no effect on any or most 3.0 creatures. Apocatastasis, other than coil, why?! Lethergy and Atherial Manipulation??? What about surecast?! Oh and please tell me when as a lvl 60, have we used Freeze?? For the majority of these new 3.x fights Manawall/ Manaward doesn't do that great, and doesn't negate what it should!!! These talents/spells have minimal use, and they do define us as a class, but why pile our bars with in other words useless spells? We could repurpose them, similar to the repurpose of the spell tri disaster / tri bind that the SMN's received. Most other classes have a minimal of these "useless spells" but we have way too many.

[Heavensword]

5. Most other classes have a minimal of these "useless spells" but we have way too many.

... you do realize there is still something called "PvP" in this game, right? All the aforementioned skills like Sleep, Freeze, Surecast are there to lock down your targets as you set up to burst them down with your PvP action+Rotation. AM also do wonders to help kite melees off your back.

The points I do agree with are that both AF and UI3 stack timers are in a very awkward place right now. It feels like the 10sec timer is left over from developer's laziness in planning and just trying to shoehorn pre-60 timers into Enochian mechanic. I know this has been suggested before, but simply increasing AF and UI timers to 12 sec each will smooth out a lot of the clunk that is limiting BLMs right now.

Either that, or amend the system so that the server checks for qualifiers for F4/B3 AT THE START OF THE CAST instead of requiring UI and Eno to be active for the entire duration of the castbar.

[Phoenicia]

5. I would also like to see some modification of our other talents/spells. We rarely utilize or have need for most of our other spells.

"You" rarely utilize those spells, they're not useless.

I will agree with you that Freeze was a bad joke by SE and Sleep is useless. Surecast... Has its uses if you know big AoE damage that would interrupt you is incoming I guess?

But Aetherial Manipulation? That's the best thing since sliced bread! It helps you "move" while minimizing movement so you can continue casting.

Manawall/Ward are the second best thing since sliced bread! (After Aetherial Manipulation of course!) They prevent enough damage on many mechanics so that they don't kill you outright.

PLD cannot survive the fourth tank buster in A1S without Apocastasis because it would be down to Rampart. And ANY tank buster that the PLD/WAR receive Apoc on they will love you for it. Alexander Savage is full on magic damage tank killers and Apocastasis helps a LOT in filling the gaps on the tanks' (specially PLD) CDs.

SMN didn't get a repurpose on any of its abilities/spells, they got a rename. That's whole different thing. Tri-disaster (new) is a whole new ability, not the same old spell (renamed Tri-Bind) that bound 8 targets. The old spell is still as useless as it has always been.

Also, One-Ilm Punch and Haymaker said hi.

[Aphotic]

Those are just the top 5 of my suggestions, and I have tons more, as most of us do. I just can see these being a very good avenue to start down in the route of improving a once amazing class, now turned gimp because of strict and rigid timer limitations. Sorry for the following replies, that was the only way I could fit everything into this one thread, Seems there is a limit character limit >.<

[Aphotic]

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[Alex_W]

To bypass the character limit, just edit your original post. Then you can fit everything in one.

[Aphotic]

To bypass the character limit, just edit your original post. Then you can fit everything in one.

Thank you so much, I don't post on the forums much, this will be used next time.