BLM needs some love and RDM needs a nerf

[LastDream]

BLM needs love? The gameplay is boring? Are the people saying that coming from Heavensward or something?

I recall playing BLM back on turn 9 in 2.0 and THAT was boring and still fun somehow. Level 50 : no Fire IV, no Ice IV, no depth gameplay AT ALL just the most boring possible rotation with high burst damage.

SB is probably the best thing BLM could ever hope for. We got a solid aoe rotation making the BLM far more efficient in AOE than SMN now (4 instant flare baby) and tools to help us stay longer and easier in astral fire. The timers have been perfectly balanced in order to punish you for not positioning well, missing a cast of Fire IV in the process if you waste a single second moving when you're not supposed to. I get 3k7 to 4k dps on D1 to D4 and i'm seriously happy about it. Foul is the icing on the cake since it just works with everything. BLM is in the best possible spot ever, it's about time people learn to change along with the job.



The RDM on the other hand doens't need a nerf, it needs an actual gameplay depth. The job is efficient but is completely braindead. I don't dislike the job at all, in fact i wish the job could offer more diversity with traits and passives like the other two casters do so you can separate the bad red mages to the good red mages.

Exemple : If you cast VerFire with at least 20 more black mana than white mana and have at least 30 black mana, your next VerThunder will be enhanced and place a thunder DOT. Of course, that would require lots of potency tweaking to adjust to the changes, but that way you would actually have to think a bit on how to grow your mana and not just brainlessly playing dice over "should i white or black now". The passive on VerHoly and VerFlare is a good exemple of basic depth.