Thread: Please reconsider 7.0 BLM changes

Originally Posted by Kabooa

Honestly, if they let us do silly things with the Fire counter, I can see that being a suitable replacement to non-standard. Like if it carries over / refreshes AF on use, you might be able to short one line to skip a Paradox in the next and instead use another F4 in it.

It really depends on how all the numbers flesh out, so while I'm not hopeful, I am waiting for the media tour vids to come out.

If I have a preliminary complaint about the job actions preview, it's that it feels wrong for us to get a new fire spell without a corresponding new ice spell, even though we do get a new lightning spell at the same time.

Speaking of, I'm really curious as to what the deal with Burst (or whatever it is) is, because it didn't seem to require any kind of special setup or even cast time in the preview. It's possible that it's just High Thunder II with no further fanfare, but the addition of a new lightning spell and the (apparent) removal of Thundercloud surely means something else is going on under the hood of BLM lightning-aspected spells in DT.

Originally Posted by Ferrinus

If I have a preliminary complaint about the job actions preview, it's that it feels wrong for us to get a new fire spell without a corresponding new ice spell, even though we do get a new lightning spell at the same time.

Speaking of, I'm really curious as to what the deal with Burst (or whatever it is) is, because it didn't seem to require any kind of special setup or even cast time in the preview. It's possible that it's just High Thunder II with no further fanfare, but the addition of a new lightning spell and the (apparent) removal of Thundercloud surely means something else is going on under the hood of BLM lightning-aspected spells in DT.

They're likely worrying about job bloat since the class is extremely bloated right now (just not quite AST/PLD levels, but identical to SAM.) The class has gone so long without a real pruning while still having dead or near-dead skills that it's catching up to them and they only wanted to add 1 actual new skill while working to trim down other skills. There's also a chance the new superflare skill is an in-line skill and not its own button, E.G. used after despair.

Though you're not the only one to comment on procs apparently being removed, and I'm curious where this sentiment came from. Though the thunder skills are almost guaranteed to be a simple in-place graphical upgrade.

The thing I'm extremely curious about, however, is manafont. From the job trailer we know it gives full mana, full umbral hearts, and paradox. But there appeared to be no overcap protection. Which means we can only use it at the end of our current burst, and the skill will be even worse to use than it is now.

Also, I know BLM mains have grown to love the godawful design that is AF/UI timers, but I seriously still wonder why they still exist when nonstandard has been forcibly killed and you never want to do more than 6 fire 4s anyways.