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

[ElevatedCosmonaut]

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Precisely! While I do love team based mechanics and gameplay, (which is something they wanted to work towards), it feels like BLM with its limits is especially reliant on the team, and I think, personally, all content should be PF-able, since I think, while a static helps, the only difference is voice communication.

While I got off the point, yes, it feels like BLM's flexibility is built around worse tools (af paradox and thunderhead), which makes it feel more rigid as while you feel smart for using it in a creative way, it isnt as rewarding as it was in EW, since there's all these unintended side effects.

[rainichan]

Adding my voice into the pile because for as much as I've tried to like new BLM and get used to it, it doesn't feel great. I can do movement as I learn fights, I'm not really worried about that, but with gear not giving me SpS, and an incredibly tight rotation to make sure you can get a FS off with perhaps a follow up Despair, it makes it very unfun to try to do anything with.

Either a couple of things need to happen, or the adjustments need to be more than potencies when adjustments happen:

Either we get a few extra seconds on Enochian to compensate, or FS's cast time needs to be reduced/made instant. With a drop in SpS to try to get anything off while moving or before you have to move, I feel one of these would make it feel better (I don't think it needs to be a mixture, but I wouldn't complain with a couple more seconds on Enochian and a reduced cast time for FS).

This is the first time since I started playing BLM that I can say I wish I didn't main it.