Thread: Please reconsider 7.0 BLM changes

I have a learning disability so learning and executing static rotations well in harder fights is difficult for me. playing anything outside of healers felt weird & awkward. but then I started playing black mage and everything suddenly made sense. things clicked from the start and I loved how fluid everything was. having a simple but flexible tool kit that changed depending on the encounter not only made things easier for me but brought depth that made things so fun. I loved getting a feel for the way the job worked on my own such as timers and mp regen ticks and what worked where, and it was easy for me to casually freestyle it effectively. I went from being made fun of by friends for doing so little damage on something like DRG or RDM to them being amazed at how good I was at this job they thought was so hard. and I was so confused because it felt like the easiest dps job in the game to me.

the changes making the job play more like a static rotation scare me. I don't know how much impact they will have but they feel like a step in the wrong direction and eat away at the unique job playstyle. I know im probably not like most players but I hope my experiences show that its not always good to have jobs work similarly.

Originally Posted by etoilecat

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Try Picto. It's more fluid and does more damage before factoring in its raid buff... and it has a lot of cool raid buffs, including very good shields with HoTs on them.

Originally Posted by Galvuu

Try Picto. It's more fluid and does more damage before factoring in its raid buff... and it has a lot of cool raid buffs, including very good shields with HoTs on them.

1.) Final potencies have yet to be seen
2.) Even based on current potencies, is this taking into account BLM's +80% on Astral Fire III (Fire spells) and +30% from Enochian trait (all damage including Fire)? Because there is a lot of "hidden" potency there.

Originally Posted by Reinhardt_Azureheim

1.) Final potencies have yet to be seen
2.) Even based on current potencies, is this taking into account BLM's +80% on Astral Fire III (Fire spells) and +30% from Enochian trait (all damage including Fire)? Because there is a lot of "hidden" potency there.

https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/jobguide/pictomancer/

Originally Posted by Reinhardt_Azureheim

1.) Final potencies have yet to be seen
2.) Even based on current potencies, is this taking into account BLM's +80% on Astral Fire III (Fire spells) and +30% from Enochian trait (all damage including Fire)? Because there is a lot of "hidden" potency there.

The finalized patch notes are out and people already had access to the final potencies for a while via certain methods.

The Balance discord knows how to math properly and factor in all those things.

Originally Posted by Reinhardt_Azureheim

1.) Final potencies have yet to be seen
2.) Even based on current potencies, is this taking into account BLM's +80% on Astral Fire III (Fire spells) and +30% from Enochian trait (all damage including Fire)? Because there is a lot of "hidden" potency there.

Are you implying the potencies on the job guides they updated today for the game that will be played tomorrow aren't final? Because I'm pretty sure these are final for 7.0. They might patch it in 7.05, but we're stuck with it for now.
And yes, obviously people accounted for the AF multiplier and Enochian. In fact, if you had raid buffs, it looks even worse because Picto has insane burst- you can essencially "precast" some of your spells in the filler rotation to unload in burst, and you have very potent ogcds to slam in burst too. 2300 potency in a gcd under burst shouldn't be a thing for any job, imho.