Loss of drain on Blm...really?!

[JowyAtreides]

Really?. If you have a tool that can keep you alive and you don't use it in a situation where you'll die if you don't, then you're being a bad player. And once you're dead, you're doing NO DPS. It's just as dumb as standing in an aoe that will one-shot you because moving means interrupting your spell cast.

Conversely, if you ever find yourself in a situation (in solo content) that you need to use Drain, you're being a bad player.

As it was, it was a rubbish skill that either needed changing, or removing. Even a triplecast Drain yielded about 20% of your health back and you still had to cast it over 5-6 seconds and by that point, your healer should have you covered or in the case of solo content, the server healclick.

[YanderePrincess]

Conversely, if you ever find yourself in a situation (in solo content) that you need to use Drain, you're being a bad player.

As it was, it was a rubbish skill that either needed changing, or removing. Even a triplecast Drain yielded about 20% of your health back and you still had to cast it over 5-6 seconds and by that point, your healer should have you covered or in the case of solo content, the server healclick.

Hon, we didn't used to have a regen buff in solo content. This made certain solo content, even job specific quests, extremely challenging on certain jobs. It's really not that different from the fact that while Titan-Egi was pretty much always shit, the removal of Titan-Egi as an actual tank pet had people legitimately worried about how one would do quite a few of the solo duties in both the summoner job quests and MSQ as Summoner.

You're also ignoring the fact that more than half the general population of the game *are* in fact bad players (which is fine, they have a right to enjoy the game, too), and if there's any content that it's reasonable to give them an extra boost on, it's *solo* content that's intended for *everyone* to enjoy.

[JowyAtreides]

Hon, we didn't used to have a regen buff in solo content. This made certain solo content, even job specific quests, extremely challenging on certain jobs. It's really not that different from the fact that while Titan-Egi was pretty much always shit, the removal of Titan-Egi as an actual tank pet had people legitimately worried about how one would do quite a few of the solo duties in both the summoner job quests and MSQ as Summoner.

You're also ignoring the fact that more than half the general population of the game *are* in fact bad players (which is fine, they have a right to enjoy the game, too), and if there's any content that it's reasonable to give them an extra boost on, it's *solo* content that's intended for *everyone* to enjoy.

Wasn't Drain and the solo content regen buff both introduced in Stormblood?

As it was, it was a rubbish skill that either needed changing, or removing.

I wouldn't have been adverse to it becoming more useful or impactful, but we'd then enter the territory of BLM's being far too universally overpowered. We already do a significant amount more dps than other classes, we already have the best shield in the game, we already have the best situational mobility skill (aetherial manipulation on a 10 second cd) and we already have one of the best downtime management mechanics (umbral soul).

To now want a sustain in the form of heals is a little greedy if you ask me.

[YanderePrincess]

Wasn't Drain and the solo content regen buff both introduced in Stormblood?

I honestly can't remember, exactly, but I don't think the regen buff was introduced until later on in Stormblood?