BLM 6.x speculation

[Gruntler]

The AoE suite pre-72 needs tidied up so it doesn't feel like a janky-ass halting influid mess in level
synched content.

[DarkZeroUnit]

is everyone happy with the 15 sec timer?

when i start my rot with b3 then E then b4 then F3 then F4 i run out of time before i run out of mana and thats not fun would 10 extra 10sec be broken?

also should the timer pause for cutscenes and transitions?

[Kabooa]

is everyone happy with the 15 sec timer?

when i start my rot with b3 then E then b4 then F3 then F4 i run out of time before i run out of mana and thats not fun would 10 extra 10sec be broken?

also should the timer pause for cutscenes and transitions?

You cast Fire 1 to reset your timer.

And no. Know when to dump your stored resources. Black Mage is one of the few jobs that can go from 0 to 100 in just a GCD.

[Payotz]

is everyone happy with the 15 sec timer?

when i start my rot with b3 then E then b4 then F3 then F4 i run out of time before i run out of mana and thats not fun would 10 extra 10sec be broken?

also should the timer pause for cutscenes and transitions?

I'm happy with it. It leads to some really tight shennanigans during raid and I'm honestly all for it.
More time on the timer isn't needed 100%.

I suggest learning the no B4 opener since it's pretty simple to learn. IIRC:

Sharpcast (12 seconds countdown) + B3(Enochian) + Thunder 3 + Fire 3(Triple cast) + Fire 4 (Pot) + Fire 4 (LeyLines) + Fire 4(3x) + Despair + Thunder 3 proc(Manafont) + Fire 4 + Despair

BLM has a lot of weird shennanigans you can do, like:

Skipping Blizzard 4 and Fire 1 if you're under Leylines and you have enough spell speed
If you have a Fire 3 proc and a Thunder 3 proc and enough time on these two procs you, Fire 3 proc(Tranpose) + Thunder 3 proc + Xenoglossy + Fire 3, this should give you mana by the time Fire 3 is done.
Skipping Blizzard 4 if you DoT timer is going down and you get fast mana tick.

I recommend checking out the Balance discord server. They have a lot of good resources in there.

[Kacho_Nacho]

I want to like this job, but I'm soooo bad at it. I tried looking up different rotations, but aside from dummies I seem to falter so badly on heavy movement fights.

You are not the only one. Black mage continues to elude me. But, practice makes perfect!

[Grimr]

two thing off the top of my head and a third... One astral soul so we don't lose astral fire to mechanics. Two is an upgrade to fire 2. Has to be something. The third is more of general boost to all classes not sure if blm needs to be included but dps inc to that of the summoner pre nerf.

[PyurBlue]

two thing off the top of my head and a third... One astral soul so we don't lose astral fire to mechanics.

Astral Soul wouldn't be useful. It would be a DPS loss to use. Umbral soul works because it's helpful during downtime, and in that situation it would be better than Astral soul because it refills your MP.

[Burningskull]

I would say Transpose needs to become Umbral Soul when you acquire it / are in ice form. Would remove one button.