They are gutting Black Mage even more in 7.2

[Absurdity]

To be honest the biggest cardinal sin this game ever did was pushing Mao away.

And making Mao break character for a moment.

[TheDustyOne]

And making Mao break character for a moment.

That threw me off for a moment, didn't realise it was Mao at first.

If 7.2 was supposed to show off their "enhanced content", then I don't want it if it comes at the cost of job variety. There's no rule that says content can't be fun and jobs can't be unique, we should have both, and we did have both once upon a time.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

That threw me off for a moment, didn't realise it was Mao at first.

If 7.2 was supposed to show off their "enhanced content", then I don't want it if it comes at the cost of job variety. There's no rule that says content can't be fun and jobs can't be unique, we should have both, and we did have both once upon a time.

Honestly it feels like Occult Crescent is their 'excuse' specifically in DT period to just wreck the jobs to pieces just because.

"Look, if you want any shred or semblance of identity we seclude them into one singular content... please look forward to that. Oh yeah none of those will shows up in regular content because we can't be arsed to even try deal with the consequences of varieties so please stop asking for it from now on, you already have it in Occult Crescent."

Something like that, probably. This, like any other attempts, are akin to a smokescreen. Less people will complain because they 'tolerate more' by the time Occult Crescent comes out and it's their cue to continue axing something else after BLM after the 'crying' dies down.

[MuraBoy]

I've been a BLM main since they added Jobs System to 1.0. And depending how BLM feels in 7.2, I feel this might the first time in 14 years that I'm thinking of quitting the game. Possibly permanently if they bastardise the job this much in mid expansion. They messed up hard with PCT and refused to nerf it unlike they did with a full rework of Viper just 1 month in to the expansion.

Everybody said to nerf PCT rather than bring every order job up and tune them to be like PCT


PCT imo has broken this game xD

Yeah, but now they're finally nerfing PCT after months of players begging and still look what they're doing to Black Mage... I really don't think PCT is the big problem, but the Battle Jobs teams, it's leaders and even Yoshi-P.

[Azurarok]

Can't have people stepping out of line for their strict dance scripts. Remove room for it by making recovery difficult, if not outright immediately wipe. Can't put much more pressure on the healers than our scheduled raidwides anyways. If some jobs can't deal with a mech gracefully then it's surely the job's fault. It can't be the fight design, the newest content's the only thing that matters after all.

[Kaliesto]

Do not question Yoshi P's Battle Designer

CONSUME BLACK MAGE PRODUCT

[mallleable]

I have no strong feelings about the removal of the timers, but I do think they got the cast, and recast times of the spells wrong with these changes. They should be a little longer.

[Tint]

I have no strong feelings about the removal of the timers, but I do think they got the cast, and recast times of the spells wrong with these changes. They should be a little longer.

Yeah, the timers offer nothing of value, they are just there to punish the player. Ontop of being punished for losing uptime when you move, ontop of losing uptime inside your Ley Lines.

BLM gameplay and identity is defined by it's ressources and the difficulty to move. The timer can go, the cast times have to stay.

[Supersnow845]

Yeah, the timers offer nothing of value, they are just there to punish the player. Ontop of being punished for losing uptime when you move, ontop of losing uptime inside your Ley Lines.

BLM gameplay and identity is defined by it's ressources and the difficulty to move. The timer can go, the cast times have to stay.

I mean doesn’t that circle back to yoshi p’s “a platformer with no holes isn’t very fun” quote. Losing a GCD because you were in the wrong spot and had to move over casting isn’t really a failure state compared to that leading to you losing the enochian timer

It’s why healers damage optimisation ending at ABC is boring as hell, because losing a cast feels bad but overcoming that doesn’t feel good because it’s not a true fail state

[Rithy255]

Yeah, the timers offer nothing of value, they are just there to punish the player. Ontop of being punished for losing uptime when you move, ontop of losing uptime inside your Ley Lines.

BLM gameplay and identity is defined by it's ressources and the difficulty to move. The timer can go, the cast times have to stay.

Well neither are staying currently.

I'd like to keep long cast times and timers personally but the long cast times are most important to me.