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

[Gaiinahat]

I see throughout this thread all the talk about how the endgame of BLM is functioning. What about beginner BLM? Since DT, I've leveled BLM up to level 70, and the class is pretty much unplayable up to this point.

Heaven forbid if you have to move, you're entire rotation is ruined, there's no means of recovery, and you have to start over with so much DPS loss. Timers drop too easily, encounters end with 0 MP and no means of getting it back to full for the next encounter. Granted, there's the slow out-of-combat tick, and ethers to get it started, and Lucid Dreaming isn't available until level 14. However, these are all useless because come the next encounter, you still have to get your MP to full before you can have any kind of "standard" rotation. So now my rotation is off by 2.5 seconds every time I have to hit B1 or F1, because now instead of having insta-full MP upon switching to B3, I have to throw in a B1, and throw in a F1 to keep UF going, and take out additional F4s for a DPS loss.

I used to LOVE BLM because the rotations were so smooth and versatile, and now I'm stuck with this unplayable "maintenance" class that punishes you if you're even a millisecond off point. At this point I HATE the class, and I can see how unfriendly these changes have made it. I can see a lot of new people steering away from this class altogether with how frustrating the gameplay is at low levels. SE pretty much killed it.

[LilyPendragon]

I used to LOVE BLM because the rotations were so smooth and versatile, and now I'm stuck with this unplayable "maintenance" class that punishes you if you're even a millisecond off point. At this point I HATE the class, and I can see how unfriendly these changes have made it. I can see a lot of new people steering away from this class altogether with how frustrating the gameplay is at low levels. SE pretty much killed it.

Yep, in their attempt to make BLM more approachable, they've made the skill floor higher and the skill ceiling lower. Pretty much the opposite of good design lol. BLM used to be a job with a pretty low skill floor, but a massive skill ceiling, now... eh.

[meie]

I see throughout this thread all the talk about how the endgame of BLM is functioning. What about beginner BLM? Since DT, I've leveled BLM up to level 70, and the class is pretty much unplayable up to this point.

Think most people are aware that even before DT, the lower level BLM experience is abysmal. Now they made changes under the guise of making the class more approachable, while everyone can say this is at best some band aid fix. Of course with a fresh expansion, endgame is more important for active players at the moment. If they were unsatisfied with EW BLM, I would rather them do a full rework then what got

[CamuiKushi]

Think most people are aware that even before DT, the lower level BLM experience is abysmal. Now they made changes under the guise of making the class more approachable, while everyone can say this is at best some band aid fix. Of course with a fresh expansion, endgame is more important for active players at the moment. If they were unsatisfied with EW BLM, I would rather them do a full rework then what got

It's definitely gotten worse. You could still get by levelling the job in Endwalker. Now it's jankier than ever below level 35 and up until you get umbral hearts the forced ice cast in the ice phase feels bad. I still have to get it to 100, but there's no way I'm ever taking it into levelling or MSQ roulette again.