How is BLM?

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Thank you, Tint & Frizze! I will get over my fear and try out the BLM job this weekend. I have been secretly wanting to play it for some time!

The biggest part that confuses me is Fire 1. It's like, why do we stick that in when we have access to F3 & F4?

Adding my two cents here since I don't think anyone really said it.

BLM is extremely easy to play and a job that anyone can pick up and play for most content.

Astral Fire for damage
Umbral Ice to restore mp after fire phase.
Keep thunder dot up.
That's essentially all there is to BLM. You add enochian and the mechanics associated to it as you get passed lvl55 but it will always boil down to fire, ice, and thunder.

The reason why everyone says BLM is hard to master is because it requires planning and fight mastery to optimize. Looking at BLM at a beginner level, you think that you lack any kind of movement and will get destroyed by aoes or lose a lot of DPS to move.
But BLM actually has a lot of movement options. Procs(firestarter and thundercloud), xeno, tripcast and swiftcast which all allow instant cast spells.

The idea of BLM is too maximize damage while keeping all unnecessary movement at a minimum. It sounds easy but FFXIV raiding requires a lot of movement and you need to learn when to use your abilities to not lose dps