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[Vandi]

/Sigh

Yoshi-bruh. . .

You. . .

I mean. . .

Bruh. Do. . .do you guys actually sit down, perhaps with a lil saki and some kfc. . .and really discuss these changes? I mean, do you get out pin pads and pencils and scribble down notes about what might be genuinely effective? Or do you just have, I dunno, Sam and the guy who designed the flowerpots from Uldah housing call all the shots?

You ruined blackmage.

I’m saying that as respectfully as possible. Non-condescending. Non-passive aggressive. Honest and straight. Bruh. You dropped the ball. And it went through the floor. And we’re all on floor 50. . .so that ball is STILL going through floors.

Aetheric Manipulation: You took out swift cast. Now. . .I merely have the privilige of dashing next to the cute miqo on my team. Whoopie.

Burst: 12k instead of 18, even though I gotsta run it in close. Oh joy.

Soul Resonance: No big instant Foil on opening. But what you did to Flare, sweet Jesus and Al Bundy. No more instant cast. No more track down. I’m now a gun turret. You know, like you did with brd and Graus Barrel which, gee golly, worked out so well.

I know NA’s don’t get listened to feedback wise, and that’s tooootally cool. But bruh, maybe sit down with some of your jp counterparts and just, I dunno, ASK em: “Hey, does this change seem like a practical adjustment, or more like 15 minute fun bent over a barrel?”

[Bureda]

I'm afraid the Japanese 'PvP' Balance team are on their 6th Asahii beer by the time lunch time comes. Good luck getting through to them.

[Loggos]

Old BLM was so fun and you could do so many clever things with it.
To think that that's all lost now. Man. :/

[Amvin]

I'm more of a melee player in PvE, but I almost exclusively played BLM in PvP because I genuinely loved it. It felt good and satisfying. Now? I can't even make sense of the new stuff. I feel like I'm forced to be an ice mage with some occasional fire enhancement when I'm lucky to get a fire spell off. Like people will just let me stand still and cast... that's not how PvP works. (Unless the opponents are bad). So disappointed.

[FROSTEDFLAKE]

if you are a frontline enjoyer, the fun stopped at 6.1, everything they did on 6.1 was the beggining of the end, well even for PVE player it seems that 6.0 was the beggining of the end, take your sub elsewhere.. I thought 7.1 would be the good change to make me come back but it really was the nail in the coffin, unsub and never come back this game is too old and dev only cares about selling products. its a scam. game should be free

[SpritePR]

it feels awful to play now. Please revert these changes back to the fun blm

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

The idea is actually fairly alright, but the numbers aren't numbering.

1.) Elemental Wreath is a cool concept, but similar to Junctioned Cast it is a bit too difficult to go for Wreath of Fire when the defensive utility of Wreath of Ice is incredibly important since you can no longer use Deep Freeze CC to interrupt. For 20s CD and no way to reduce the cooldown with other actions, the opportunity cost of Wreath of Fire is too high to get proper value with it. [a potential solution: Casting Paradox cutting the Wreath CD by like 3-5 seconds while it is recharging, potentially two charges of Wreath]

2.) Burst has no business doing only 12000 AOE damage in a kit that has no hard CC outside of Limit Break. This needs to go straight to 16000. The shield is debatable.

3.) Aetherial Manipulation would do better with charges. 8 second cooldown is great, but it is a bit inflexible.

4.) Flare hitting for equal numbers as High Fire II (minus AOE) yet still having cast time is a bit miffy. Flare Star "only" doing like +12k (8k of that in dots) while providing no form of CC like Frost Star is a bit dull. I like the new animations, I am not a fan of the execution though.

Personal issues with the job are in this order.