Thema: 5.3 COMPLETE patch notes

Zitat von Katie_Kitty

So literally just like every other job in the game. You're not optimizing anything until you know the fight front to back, that's what optimization means to begin with.

Notice how I said "optimize your movement tools"? Movement being the key word. No other job has to consider their positioning throughout a fight like Black Mage. More than half the DPS don't give it more than a passing thought.

Zitat von Katie_Kitty

Different, yes. Harder, no. They are completely different playstyles. RDM play in high end content revolves around making the best use of dualcast and movement every other GCD to handle mechanics while performing your rotation to the best of your ability. Black Mage gameplay on the other hand involves timing your movement around periods of completely stationary play. While RDM has more frequent movement, It is BLM who enjoys more burst movement and the ability to pick when and where to move without sacrificing any of their main DPS rotation. When RDM gains an ability that allows them to teleport straight to safety with no drawback (or when RDM can stack scorch casts and use them at any time they wish) then maybe you will have a point, but they don't - Their movement is done during dualcast and then they have to stop and cast again.

Dualcast is built into Red Mage's entire rotation, and while it may be a DPS loss to mismanage it, you can still perform effectively. Black Mage, on the other hand, cannot. It's movement tools are on lengthily CDs and needs to learn the entire fight rotation to plan around when best to utilize them. A mistake will possibly mean the loss of Enochian—which is massive DPS loss. Whether you like it not, Red Mage is widely ranked among the easiest jobs to play. Conversely, Black Mage is considered among the hardest. That isn't inherently a dig to Red Mage nor does it imply the job lacks any mastery. Dragoon is arguably the easiest melee yet look at its popularity. You're just taking a community consensus as a personal attack.

Zitat von Katie_Kitty

That's nice, but if you think learning a fight on RDM is going to help you much on BLM, then I don't know what to tell ya. More likely, those BLMs do it for the chain rez more than because they think playing the fight on RDM is going to help them on BLM.

Except it does. If you're able to see the fight mechanics you can plan accordingly on where optimal uses of Triple Cast, Sharp Cast, Swiftcast and etc.