Thread: Please reconsider 7.0 BLM changes

I posted about this in the BLM post in the General forums, however, I would be curious to know how Manafont could potentially be used. By looking at the job trailer, it seems to grant 3 Umbral Hearts, Paradox, refresh AF timer and restore MP. Now, with everything it seems to grant, it might be a safe bet it restores ALL of your MP to allow another AF phase without having to enter UI at all. Just curious as to whether this could potentially change anything or add anything.

This is coming from someone who plays BLM casually, so follows the standard rotation and has basically no knowledge of the non standard lines.

Originally Posted by Mikey_R

I posted about this in the BLM post in the General forums, however, I would be curious to know how Manafont could potentially be used. By looking at the job trailer, it seems to grant 3 Umbral Hearts, Paradox, refresh AF timer and restore MP. Now, with everything it seems to grant, it might be a safe bet it restores ALL of your MP to allow another AF phase without having to enter UI at all. Just curious as to whether this could potentially change anything or add anything.

Funny enough, I don't think Manafont matters much. Under burst, depending on the potency of the nuke, you might just do the nuke into Xeno spam. Fire IV is usually not strong enough to be used under burst unless you have to, and the nuke takes so long to setup half the buffs will have fallen off. It just gives you a very long AF cycle. I wonder if this will cause your AF to desync from the 2 mins tho, since, assuming non-standard is gone, it will be much worse to set up a "perfect" burst window.

Originally Posted by Galvuu

Funny enough, I don't think Manafont matters much. Under burst, depending on the potency of the nuke, you might just do the nuke into Xeno spam. Fire IV is usually not strong enough to be used under burst unless you have to, and the nuke takes so long to setup half the buffs will have fallen off. It just gives you a very long AF cycle. I wonder if this will cause your AF to desync from the 2 mins tho, since, assuming non-standard is gone, it will be much worse to set up a "perfect" burst window.

also worth noting for the sake of Mikey_R that it's very fight dependant - ideally you want to dump Xenoglossy yes, but non-standard is really just shifting around resources like procs, CDs and polyglots to where you need them. So if you need to use Xenoglossy or Manafont somewhere earlier in the fight to enable a specific sequence, then that will have an impact on what you can later put into raid buffs.

The tradeoff between movement and buff contribution at specific times is a really deep topic with a huge amount of headroom to adjust based on encounter timelines and party composition

Originally Posted by Cyth_

also worth noting for the sake of Mikey_R that it's very fight dependant - ideally you want to dump Xenoglossy yes, but non-standard is really just shifting around resources like procs, CDs and polyglots to where you need them. So if you need to use Xenoglossy or Manafont somewhere earlier in the fight to enable a specific sequence, then that will have an impact on what you can later put into raid buffs.

The tradeoff between movement and buff contribution at specific times is a really deep topic with a huge amount of headroom to adjust based on encounter timelines and party composition

In most (though not all) current fights, you can set up a burst phase with 3x Xeno, TC and a Paradox or at least 2 instant cast Despairs (under Triple) and 2x Xeno.

Originally Posted by Mikey_R

I posted about this in the BLM post in the General forums, however, I would be curious to know how Manafont could potentially be used. By looking at the job trailer, it seems to grant 3 Umbral Hearts, Paradox, refresh AF timer and restore MP. Now, with everything it seems to grant, it might be a safe bet it restores ALL of your MP to allow another AF phase without having to enter UI at all. Just curious as to whether this could potentially change anything or add anything.

This is coming from someone who plays BLM casually, so follows the standard rotation and has basically no knowledge of the non standard lines.

Manafont change looks good and a lot of BLMs are excited for it. It has been a very underwhelming cooldowns until now. The long recast timer means that it won't cover a lot of the scenarios where the MP is needed to enable different lines, and will be used as a DPS tool to extend existing fire lines (probably in raid buffs)