Thread: 6.38 patch notes in a nutshell

I'm baffled at the thought of turret BLM. When do you ever need to turret Towa? You basically just slide cast once or twice between LB and fly around the battlefield like Palpatine v.s. Yoda in Star Wars III the rest of the match.

Originally Posted by Towa-Musa

i hate being overly reliant on the LB to get kills, makes me feel weak and miss the time where i could just throw out a fireball a couple of times and eventually kill somebody.
then again i always hated the TTK on frontline and i REALLY HOPE they revert it back to 6.1 TTK so i can just do damage and have fun.

That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever read. No wonder you couldn't climb the ranks in CC.

Originally Posted by Reinhardt_Azureheim

Dunno man still feels weak.

Add Phantom Dart.

Mmmm I don't think BLM is all that weak. Its just with the nerf to their ability to control the fight with aoe stuns (which I definitely agree was a justified change) in addition to losing their defense from LB it simply becomes easier to pressure them. I'm fine with the ice changes they made, I just feel like their LB should get the barrier back. They need something other than lightning to give them some form of defense as right now its too easy to dive and kill them imo.

Originally Posted by Valence

I don't get that train of thought.

You don't LB mindlessly when you're out of resources and purify, and even more than this, you don't get into melee mindlessly while you still have most of your stacks to spend unless it's warranted. You can still use burst as well during it since you're not on a huge time constraint and gain the barrier that way. Why would you want to have not only a LB barrier, but then a barrier from burst on top of it so that you can be shielded for 30+ seconds or something? That's supposed to be balanced? You can even move freely without casting during the whole LB duration, and yet, BLM is "easy" to shut down? Like, BLM LB is monstrous. It has to come with downsides, and shutting it down is part of the game, even though that it's actually not as easy as it looks.

And I'm saying this as someone that plays BLM quite a bit, so it's not like I'm a BLM hater.

Good players will dive you when LB is up to stop the ice spam. Giving them a bit of a barrier during LB would help alleviate that and give them room to kite. They need something other than just burst for defense.

Originally Posted by Astralrisk

Ninja really got kicked out of the football team with those range nerfs.

Range nerf honestly doesn't change anything.

I mean it's got crazy up time after that initial charge up. Still even alternating between ice and fire on appropriate targets is instant and crazy good, because players don't pay attention to BLM poke damage outside the LB. But if you aren't liking it then I suppose that is what it is.

DRG got its first potency nerf...which was paired with another potency buff and a stronger barrier.

NIN lost 5 range, but Goka is already 20 range in PvE anyway, so they actually got away with that for a while.