BLM feedback.

[Ferrinus]

Well no. The problem with Thunderhead is that it's a 30s proc on a 30s dot, making it very hard not to clip it. The problem with Fire Paradox (Which functions as your AF refresher along with F3P if you want to consider it that for some reason), is that it gives you 2-3 seconds less of AF to work with, since you have to deal with the recast timer.

While more pressure in jobs is alright if it's fun, this type of pressure feels janky, and unintended. I hate it.

I don't think either of those is exactly true. You get extra Thunderheads from umbral refreshes and of course Manafont gives you a charge, so you only miss seconds of your DoT if you refresh at the top of your astral cycle AND pack too many spells into your astral cycle relative to your spellspeed, both of which can be worked around.

As well, the instant astral paradox isn't really taking away but just moving around temporal slack. It used to be that you had to start casting it after 12~13s of astral, and it would buy you 15s more with a 40% chance of 12~13 on top of that. Now you need to cast it after 14~15s of astral, and it buys you 12~13s more with a guaranteed 12~13 more on top of that if you really need them, and this is discounting use of swift/triple to sneak stuff in right under the deadline.

Now, I think Thunderhead should be removed such that we can cast Thunder whenever we're under astral or umbral, but failing that extending the Thunderhead buff to 40s would probably be good.