Thread: Please reconsider 7.0 BLM changes

Originally Posted by Cyth_

By your own admission, BLM has worked fundamentally the same and has had a every iteration be good, yet you want it to revert to something you "loved"?

(Nonstandard has been a thing since at least 5.0 by the way, i.e. 4+ years).

A class can get substantially worse over time because it stays in place while the game moves on without it. These aren't mutually exclusive concepts. Plus, the changes made in future expansions spoil the past, esp for black mage where it has regularly gotten nerfed.

Originally Posted by Cyth_

You say this, yet non-standard BLM is kinda what you're asking for. The entire thing that makes non-standard BLM so appealing to us is the fact that with considerate and resourceful play, you can make the job not just work but excel in the situations you have described. Standard BLM is still completely sufficient in these situations (an average BLM who drops uptime several times in a fight to resolve mechanics will often perform comparably if not better than a SMN or RDM of similar skill), but non-standard allows players who want to squeeze more out of the job the opportunity to do so *if* they wish, and with considerable effort and planning on their part.

At the end of day, you seem to be decrying "homogenisation" of other jobs in the game, yet are adamantly against a playstyle of a job that has emerged in recent years without breaking game balance? Apologies, but your position is just not adding up to me.

This is so heavily confirmation biased that I literally cannot even say it. My stance is, explicitly, death to nonstandard BS. I don't mind slight changes off standard in relation to boss specific mechanics, especially related to DPS optimization with weird boss uptime. But that is miles apart from asking for nonstandard rotations.

I am, explicitly, so you can't twist my words, asking for nonstandard BLM to die. I also want BLM to fit in the content the devs are making, which endwalker made absolutely clear is not the case. The class needs to be normalized so it can actually be adjusted to fit the content the devs are making.

And a BLM isn't competing with SMNs or RDMs. It's competing with MCHs and SAMs. To even compare them in the same slot is foolish at best. Like sure, you can choose to also not take a SMN or RDM, but if you choose to take a BLM and it's pulling SMN and RDM damage, or just barely beating it, your team has problems. It's a big part of why no one played BLM for at least the first half of endwalker.