How's BLM looking?

[IllyriaKnotfred]

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So I gotta ask. If RDM turns out to be even marginally stronger than BLM or SMN. Is that the deciding factor to you? Do you switch mains without a second thought?

[CecMiller]

So I gotta ask. If RDM turns out to be even marginally stronger than BLM or SMN. Is that the deciding factor to you? Do you switch mains without a second thought?

The deciding factor will almost always be how fun the class is to play. For BLM for me it was the big numbers. Nothing beats the explosions! I've loved BLM and love min-maxing savage fights so doing it with minimal movement via playing BLM will always be fun.

For RDM, to be honest, I haven't really looked into the class as much. What I do know is that their AOE is subpar (I think?) compared to BLM or SMN and they do drain mana. I haven't played RDM and so would only decide what I would prefer to play over how RDM plays. I know the feel of BLM and SMN from the savage tier so I kinda know gist of how they will play out in combat. RDM is a different beast but it should be fun learning a new class!

And in terms of if RDM was marginaly stronger than both BLM or SMN, I would say no. The class would have to be fun to play in savage fights for me to decide first and foremost. With summoner, I absolutely loved deleting the add phase of any fight. If the difference in strength between the casters is small, then I'd always play the one that I enjoyed in a particular fight the most!

[Neela]

So I gotta ask. If RDM turns out to be even marginally stronger than BLM or SMN. Is that the deciding factor to you? Do you switch mains without a second thought?

Unless you are in a very hardcore raid group- why does it matter which is the 'best'? Play what you enjoy playing the most.

Because most people (not pointing on you Cec more in general) want to claim "being meta" on their flag what's sad. Everytime a job gets op the cls community increased drastically Mnk, Ast, Drg, Smn now Blm... there will always be wtjs in every mmo who join top tier jobs cause of being top tier and not cause they actually really like the cls. And than there are the ones who actually fall in love with a certain cls who stick to them even in bad times like AAR Bards, AAR Smn, HW Whm etc. because they like everything around it story, design, gameplay and other points aside of pure numbers.