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    Llugen's Avatar
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    Feb 2014
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    Ul'dah
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    Zera Vyre
    World
    Midgardsormr
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    Black Mage Lv 90
    I mean if you're worried about keybinding on BLM I'm not sure what to say, pretty sure it has the lowest keybinding requirement of any job in the game. I like the idea of interplay between Fire refreshing Astral and Fire IV NOT refreshing it, but its too big of a loss to have to move via proc or scathe (so lost potency) and then STILL have to cast Fire to refresh Astral so MORE lost potency, not to mention ruining the MP table.

    If Fire was made instant cast under Enochian (or even Enhanced Enochian if you want to save it for only 70, or Astral/Umbral IV or whatever), then moving while casting Fire still results in a potency loss over Fire IV, yes, but at least the Astral timer is refreshed already so that you don't have to ALSO refresh it after moving, and you even have a chance for a Firestarter for additional movement. It also wouldn't botch your MP table like Scathe does, and the concept does makes some sense lore-wise: mastery of old spells as you become more powerful, yadda yadda.

    I also want to reiterate how much I like the idea of Thunder Ready and a free Firestarter after consumption of all three Umbral Hearts. This allows even more strategy for Blizzard IV usage, and Thunder Ready encourages high damage output during the DoT, so exactly what every BLM is clamoring about.

    (For those of you who don't know what Thunder Ready is, it's the way that Thunder works as a PVP skill: it applies the DoT and then gives you the Thundercloud proc after you've inflicted a certain amount of damage to the target, so if you can get off enough casts on the target, it gives you Thunder Ready, which is essentially a Thundercloud, guaranteed. Obviously it would need to scale with gear/item level somehow, but encouraging high damage output and rewarding uptime is exactly what we want on the job in raid content as well.)
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    Last edited by Llugen; 12-01-2017 at 11:08 AM.