Thread: Please reconsider 7.0 BLM changes

Only lvl 91 so fsr, have been BLM main since 2.0 and it was always challenging class to play. All i REALLY want is an optional timer that ticks at last 5 seconds of your astral/umbral stacks because the DPS tunnel vision is a greater struggle for me w BLM even knowing what I'm doing.

I would understand that if picto didn't come out with 5 instant cast 1k+ potencies, a flexible rotation, subtractive pallete combo hitting for nearly 4 xenoglossy. A heal, a mit, AND a damage buff. Motifs can be instant casted with the 40 second swift cast reduction for insane damage + utility outpacing the "selfish dps" job. It's painful. Flarestar is not enjoyable to me personally, and their starry skies is way bigger if an area the leylines.

All with no timers to juggle or anything else.
It has all the power and fluidity I loved about blm, without anypunishment. If all of picto was reflavored to blm, with color and subtractive being astral and umbral clones I would be the happiest blm in the server. But that isn't the case. We got gutted and Now I feel dirty abandoning my favorite job I've played for a decade on. I suffered through the down points with the job Because there was nothing like it even at its worst. Playing as a picto has me feeling the way so many people do about their changed models with this update. I'm playing a stranger. My wol was a blm all the way and now i just retired during dawntrail to be bob ross. It's a shame and still bothers me that this was so prudent for them to nerf us into the ground. While warrior solos the entire game save for raids

Mao really upset. BLMs AoE rotation gots messy. BLMs mana regen ats lower levels gots bad. BLMs ats higher levels gettings more rigid. Is feel like Mao paid 70 bucks to go backwards. For first time since Mao started playings, Mao beginnings feel like Mao wants walk away from game. Is nots helping that is so many borings fetch quests. Mao constantly goings "Is Mao there yets? Is Mao there yets?"

Long time player, first time forum poster. I've been maining BLM for an age. I'm not going to go on a diatribe about why the changes are bad; plenty of other posts in thread about that. Just wanted to make my voice heard. I also dislike the changes, non-standard was the most fun I've had as BLM in years. If the class stays like it is in 7.0, guess I'll swap to PCT or something.

Originally Posted by koko-on-da-forumz

Don't attribute to malice what can easily be explained by incompetence.

There are a lot of things in Dawntrail that feel like they were built in an environment without enough time or resources or both. Flare Star was an intentional choice to restrict BLM and make it seem more accessible, but numbers are almost certainly an oversight that will be fixed with the new balance patch.

SE gains nothing from having people who already bought the expansion switching from BLM to PCT.

Is possible that maybe is more due to incompetence than greed. Note: Mao nots saying SE full of malice. Mao saying SE mights be greedy. SE maybe nots trying get BLMs to switch to Picto. SE mights be trying attract NEW customers with OP job. Mao once saw something like this in CCG that Mao used to play called "L5R". Each new expansion the company whats made game would make one faction deliberatesly overpowered because thems knew that peoples would buy more cards and play that faction. Mao hateds that.

Bumping this specifically because of the strong reaction to VPR. BLM already has a niche audience..please stop ruining it when there's a passionate base behind the job. Y9u aren't going to see pages and pages of BLM spam because the gameplay inherently isn't for everyone. If these changes were aimed at making it so, then the dev team failed.

Happy to see the umbral soul change and potency adjustments for savage. Keen to see how we do in savage, wonder how much movement we are gonna be doing.