My Analysis of BLM's issues and why it is currently the worst DPS class.

[HaroldSaxon]

y'all are dumb. forced movement mechanic? use triplecast. getting knocked away and fear losing enochian?? pop transpose while you still can. need to go somewhere??? so does your party member AND you can teleport to him. don't have raid buffs???? DO MORE DMG SCRUB. it's not hard to always be top dps by a mile as blm. following my quick guide up here ^^^^^ you can do enough dmg to more than justify you being there. no res? your teammate shouldn't have died to that mechanic anyways.

I'll bite.

Even if you have an absolutely 0 movement fight, you do not do enough raid dps to worth taking over a NIN/BRD/DRG/MCH/SMN/MNK or even a SAM, and you don't provide the utility in progression as RDM.

So get a clue next time Mr Green.

right, we're getting a potency buff, procs are gonna be slightly better, and 20seconds cut off on AM.

Potency buff is unknown, but given SAM is unchanged I doubt its above 20. Probably +10.

Proc changes are meaningless.

AM changes are meaningless because that kind of movement isn't an issue - the previous cooldown sufficed.

most blms are garbage, but us good ones are typically significantly higher than the group in raw dps in everything other than o4s and ucob. you ever phase exdeath at 7k dps?

Citation needed. Raw DPS =/= Contributed DPS

[BlackcatChen]

y'all are dumb. forced movement mechanic? use triplecast. getting knocked away and fear losing enochian?? pop transpose while you still can. need to go somewhere??? so does your party member AND you can teleport to him. don't have raid buffs???? DO MORE DMG SCRUB. it's not hard to always be top dps by a mile as blm. following my quick guide up here ^^^^^ you can do enough dmg to more than justify you being there. no res? your teammate shouldn't have died to that mechanic anyways.

You miss the point of this thread.

At full uptime (0 casts lost to movement), 4.1 BLM has the second lowest raid dps contribution (not to be confused with personal dps) in the game. That's why they're getting buffed. I and several others have said identical statements throughout this thread, please read.