Quote Originally Posted by BaconBits View Post
Step 1: Get gear that naturally has spell speed, or failing that, meld spell speed on your gear. BLM scales very well with spell speed, and having too low an amount of it is a miserable experience imo. A good starting point would be about 1100-1300ish spell speed.

Step 2: Utterly abuse your movement tools. You have 2 charges of Triplecast, 2 charges of Sharpcast to force a Thundercloud or Firestarter proc, Amplifier to generate a stack of Xenoglossy, Swiftcast, and Paradox is instantcast during your ice phase. Use instantcasts to weave your abilities so you don't clip your GCDs. Ley Lines increase the speed at which you cast, Aetherial Manipulation to move to another party member, whether it be to a safe zone or a stack marker, and Between The Lines to return to your Ley Lines. Also abuse Surecast to prevent knockbacks from interrupting your cast and Manaward to nullify damage if you know a hit won't kill you.

Step 3: Know the Fight. This one's a bit tricky if you're going into a fight blind and don't learn quickly. Figure out which spots don't tend to get aoes dropped on them, get used to dodging aoes by a fraction of a hair, find that one pixel perfect spot between the multiple aoes that just spawned in your general area. And no matter what, always practice your ABC's. Show those aoes (and your stressed out healer lol) who's boss.
Step 1. Even IF I cared to use materia on any job it wouldn't be blm lol. I don't enjoy playing and only got it to max level.

Step 2. I do abuse my movement tools. So much so that I run out. I also have no clue when you are meant to use Sharpcast and tend to ignore it since the long cast times make it difficult to weave Sharpcast in. Aetherial Manipulation is horrible on controller. Between the lines is nice but it's only there when you have Leylines which is once very 120s.

Step 3. It is impossible to memorize every fight in this game. If you are only playing BLM in say Savage or Ultimate then sure. Memorizing the fight would be necessary but that's any job imo.

Again these are just things I hate about the job and am mostly talking about how fun the job is to just pick up and play. Running dungeons for roulettes or trails, leveling, etc. etc.