BLM Nerfs

[aeoncs]

I didn't find a recent thread about this, so I thought I'd just make a new one.

To start things off, I do think that BLM needed a nerf but I don't really agree with how SE went about it. The control and pressure a really good BLM, although incredibly rare, could have was definitely nuts at times - even more so in a team setting but with full party ranked being such a dead mode that's not the main point here - but I believe these changes to be overkill.

The 4 second baseline nerf of both Sleep and Night Wing as well as making Sleep single target is a huge deal and that's not even mentioning the Blizzard & Freeze nerf. On top of that they didn't even compensate, like buffing Manawall (PvP only) or Equanimity for example.
Altogether this seems like way too much of a hit to me; then again I don't play BLM so I could be wrong, which is the main reason for making this thread.

How are you guys feeling about the nerfs? Especially you BLM mains out there.

[Vaeria]

Screwing with an already dead body comes to mind. (Neckro-I-feelyaz-something?) Blm lost its soul when Flare was gimped (still best BOOM spell in game hands down) Aside from annoying sleeps, it has nothing..NOTHING..that another ranged class burst/aoe-wise cant do better. Aaah well...as with drk..it gets a slot filled so the match will pop and boredom will end. Wait..theres now 8 vs 8- no role pvp? O_O

[Rilasha]

I play BLM in Frontlines and the changes are quite interesting. They homogenised the duration of Sleep and Night Wing to be on par with WHM Repose and reduced heavy durations across the board. Sleep being single target only makes the windows of vulnerability longer in Frontlines due to the amount of people that are present in games. If you have two or three melee (or more) on you at a time, your only form of meaningful CC on them is Night Wing or Blizzard II and even then they might Fetter Ward it, wasting your cooldown in terms of the former.

You also can't chain Swiftcast -> Sleep into Cometeor stacking kills anymore with the nerf, you HAVE to use Night Wing for it.

It's probably a good thing in the Feast that the Sleep is single target now, as you don't make multiple enemies resistant to sleep and can use it more tactically. Night Wing is still there for multi-sleep.

[Geologo]

SE stated that the nerf was due to the BLMs victory rate in the Feast, but, maybe I'm wrong, in theEU server they are quite rare.
I played some few matches in a JAP datacenter (only FL), they act very different from what I'm used to see.

Even during a Slaughter match and even if 2 GC was clashing among each other in the middle part of the arena, the 3rd one didn't start any sandwitch action,
just waited back and re-apply stoneskin ._.

It seemed that they was waiting for the LB any time to attack, and use them all together.
No one was battle high at the end of the match xD

So if they are very focused on LB people I think that the Sleep nerf was due to it, but with our pattern x.x
I will really miss it even because Freeze suck even compared to Tri-bind :/

[Rilasha]

I played some few matches in a JAP datacenter (only FL), they act very different from what I'm used to see.

Mhm, JP frontlines and NA/EU frontlines are completely different.

Hardly any people get battle high in JP frontlines and when they do, they get focused hard.

The ice tomelith magic resist was mostly the JP meta's fault when people stacked Cometeors on people and ice.

I'll share a screenshot of an old Seal Rock party list on the Elemental data centre.
This is before Summoner nerfs that happened ages ago.

Nerfs need to happen to keep the game competitive and sadly (for me anyway) they targeted BLM Sleep this time round.

[Zensho]

Most of the top ten on JP Mana Datacenter are BLM's, they all have incredible skill, timing, and control the flow of the matches. I'm looking forward to tomorrow where my small buffs, and their nerf might actually help me secure a spot in the top 100. =)

Accelerator XIV is also on Masamune world, and I had the pleasure of playing with and against him many times. <3

[Zensho]

Sure they do! Lately adders smn's are running around with highs and fevers, I think they are a premade XD

what data center you guys talking about? Mana is where it's at. Been doing tons of Glory over here, super fun times.

[Dumbledoremd]

Its nerfed to the point of it being not fun to play night wing nerf too really :@

[Evangela]

How am I feeling about the nerfs? I love it, because I was the one who asked for it.

[Chaelyn]

Nightwing isn't the only way to get your LB off. Why does every BLM player forget that Freeze is a 1.5 second cast if you have AF3 lol.