BLM Post-Patch, and where to go from here.

[Basteala]

I can not understand your problems with Blm.
You are all overreacting.

Its true, that there is room for quality of life changes (giving high fire and despair the option to stack the gauge, maybe, increase fire timer with 5 seconds more).

The blm is very smooth now. Its rarely a problem, to obtain the 6 stacks for flare Star. The main problem i see and understand is, that the timer is very short for that (reason, why i say, 5 seconds more could be nice).
But, whe have paradox and fire3 to refresh the timer. In addition can whe cast swiftcast more often and have tripple casting 2 times. At last for me was it rare, that i runned out of time.

Ok, its sucks, to not have enough mp left, if you are forced to use 1 additional fire1. But even than, have whe despair, who could substitute the finisher, like to the EW times (is only a small dmg lose for 1 round).
Or, whe could use flare, to refresh the timer and obtain the missing stack. The price would be only a small dmg lose. But, whe would be able to cast Flarestar for that.

With mp recovery had i even no real problems. Yeah, after a ress has whe zero. But with the dream skill is it recovered enough very fast, that whe can than cast the ice spells.

In overall is the Blm very smooth and has only small "problems". But that are parts, where whe have to adjust for the moment.
The only "pain in the ...." part are all this running stuff (shit ghost dungeon and bee's^^). But that was allways a problem for Black mages

There's literally no excuse for a pure DPS class doing less aDPS than Pictomancer, and having a barely higher performance overall than Red Mage and ranged DPS. Samurai doesn't have problems with performance, so what's the deal?