Quote Originally Posted by Reksanden View Post
Aetherial Manipulation and Between the Lines made a bit snappier, with less animation lock? They're short, yes, but the time before you can cast again is not insignificant when BLM can come down to the wire as is.

6: Mainly, no real rework yet. BLM is in possibly the best position out of every single DPS, but there's still room for improvement before a rework is truly, if ever, needed. Don't need to fix what isn't remotely broken, after all.
I wonder if they made it like an actual teleport instead of a "beeline pull" would help with this, I have the same impression of those spells. But something tells me that the battle coding hold this kind of ability back... If you see NIN's Sukuchi is a slightly faster Between the lines, but the character still beelines the way. The animation doesn't make look like, but the camera movement indicates otherwise.

As per your point 6... I also think BLM is the most perfect caster right now, but I keep thinking about a few points...

1) Would the players being happy going into Endwalker just with spell upgrades that don't bring anything new to the BLM game? Currently the only mechanic that BLM has that is considered "annoying" is Enochian, and it has received numerous QoL improvements ever since its inception. More improvements would mean trivializing the mechanic?

2) If BLM would eventually hit a "Soft wall" (design reached perfection and has nowhere else to grow w/o damaging the structure it has) in 7.0, would players be okay with a job rework, if it's meant to add new "toys"?

3) Layering new mechanics without changing what BLM has right now could potentially ruin the gameplay?


I end finding myself really torn. While I'm really happy with how BLM is now, not having interesting features added with the expansion tastes a little bitter. As a RDM I kinda felt a bit of that entering ShB, they didn't really get anything meaningful mechanically or visually.