What change do you want to see on your main class for Endwalker ?

[Colt47]

I feel like black mage, after all these years, is still a love it or hate it kind of job. I've literally went through all the different caster type mini-games I've seen in MMOs the past few years to think on how they could fix this unwieldly thing, and the best I could come up with was something similar to Moonkin Druid rotation sans Wrath of the Lich King, with quick firing Fire 1 and Blizzard 1 turning into instant cast Fire IV and Blizzard IV.

The way that one worked is that you kept casting a spell of the corresponding element until the meter filled all the way in that direction, then you'd get a damage buff when you hit the eclipse state, which is when the meter hit 100%, for the opposing element. It's rather simple in execution and avoids a lot of the problems that blackmage has since during the burst phase you can go to something like Fire IV and Blizzard IV naturally, with a lower cast timer, and keep your motion up. In fact, if we really went that eclipse direction, Fire 1 and Blizzard 1 would turn into Fire IV and Blizzard IV. Then each one of the casts of rank IV you get off, it would add a point to the flare / despair meter until you could fire that off.

Right now I think the jobs rotation works, but it just is really bad in terms of encounter design because it puts too much emphasis on figuring out where to stand. It leads to a really bipolar experience of either doing all the damage because you know where to stand, or no damage at all, and it hurts especially bad in leveling roulette when people don't know the job that well. Spell speed spec helps a bit, but I think Crit-Spec is still king and pushes just how crazy this job can get in encounters.

That and enocian. Sweet mercy, how much someone wears that button down when you are between encounters and trying to avoid losing your stacks. I can't think of a time where I had to keep pressing a button between encounters just to keep my dps up, and swapping to the moonkin rotation would fix that since you don't lose your eclipse state unless you start firing spells of the opposing element.