Thread: Please reconsider 7.0 BLM changes

Originally Posted by Theox

BLM being the only other job not completely gutted yet? Hmm... Let me think...

So now that BLM is getting dumbed down, suddenly a thousand voices arise from their slumber to lament current job design as if that wasnt happening already?

"I want your fun to be ruined, out of bitterness and spite... wait why are you vilifying me????"

I think it's crazy that many wish for Black Mage's depth to be filled with sand, because other jobs' depth has been removed, rather than demanding for the depth of those jobs to be brought back. I don't get exactly how nonstandard is an issue. At most you dealt 3% more damage, but the main use was to keep uptime.

From the digest released today,

"MP will be no longer be recovered based on server ticks and will instead recover upon landing ice-aspected spells. The rotation will be easier to understand, and you may want to keep an eye out for new aspects to optimize compared to before. The job action trailer also revealed a new ability to reposition your ley lines once per cast."

They think there is still things to optimize but it does confirm you must indeed land ice spells so that's nice to know.

im glad its no longer server ticks and now ice spells. ive been on hold for waiting for server ticks many times.

Let's be real, others play SMN not because they like the job... it's either: they can stay half awake playing or it shares gear with BLM and when they've figured the fight, they'd switch and never look back.

Maybe, Blizzard 4 restores 100% of your MP. Maybe Paradox does the same (it acts as Fire in AF, so it would stand to reason it would act as Blizzard in UI. There is a caveat that Blizzard might not restore 100% MP though, though no reason Paradox couldn't).

From my limited looking at alternate BLM lines, the majority, if not all have Paradox under UI. If it did restore 100% of your MP, nothing would change and, if I read things right, they tended to have a filler GCD for the MP ticks anyway. By allowing full MP on one cast, it might even add more flexibility.