They are gutting Black Mage even more in 7.2

[Daralii]

I can only say that l play blm in pvp... So This doesn't affect me

Then why bother replying?

[Auro_Seldaris]

Mao so glad that Mao already cancelled subscription. Changes whats coming makes Mao cry. Mao sad....

Tells you how out of touch Yoshida is, everything he does to BLM just makes Mao cry. Disappointing and sad behavior from him.

I'm not even joking. I hate how this is pushing away people that used to love the game and love the job of BLM.

Someone above said people have "expressed their disappointment in every way they know." Well, there's only one last way for me to do so, and that's to do what Mao did. I'm unsubbing after what I saw in 7.2 LL. I'm done being treated like my money is a given, while content is made more and more braindead and jobs are nerfed into oblivion.

[Niervel]

Yeah, I'm sure changes like this will make up for the DT slump. Absolutely. Definitely won't convince people who actually like the game to give up on it.
If these make it through to live, I'm just deleting this character and done with this game.

It's like watching someone you know succumb to addiction, save that the addiction here is turning everything into nonsensical and clunky filler rotations where half of the buttons serve no real purpose and there's nothing to manage. I've been through it with Summoner, Paladin, and Dragoon already: enough is enough.

[Valence]

I'm not sure if people have picked up on this or taken the full reality of it, but reducing cast times like this specifically after outright removing the cast times behind other spells like despair or fire paradox, literally hints at more and more DDR to accommodate for.

[Majatok]

They're doing this on purpose to get a reaction out of people, right? There is no way they are THAT stupid, right?

No, seriously. Why are they so obsessed with turning everything down to playschool level? I don't understand. I'm actually losing my mind here.

WTF is their problem?

[Krokov]

BLM has been buffed to high heaven to compensate for PCT who is now getting nerfed

At this rate BLM will be the strongest job in the game while having an internal complexity rivalling WHM minus WHM’s healing

15/10 design

Do you have a link in regard to PCT?

[Supersnow845]

What is their obsession with melee dominance

PCT dominates the meta for 2 patches and their response is to nerf PCT, lobotomise BLM AND nerf it AND buff the melees

Like why do they hate casters so much

[TaleraRistain]

I'm not sure if people have picked up on this or taken the full reality of it, but reducing cast times like this specifically after outright removing the cast times behind other spells like despair or fire paradox, literally hints at more and more DDR to accommodate for.

I had that thought, too. "Just how lightning fast are these mechanics going to get that we need to move this much?"

[ValkyrieL]

Making jobs easier not solution, game already *slow* by modern action combat game, people need to be engaged mid combat not just by possibility of mechanics failure but trying to main jobs resources/combat. Such a disappointment where jobs identity is going, hopes of 8 jobs revamped not looking good.

[Supersnow845]

I had that thought, too. "Just how lightning fast are these mechanics going to get that we need to move this much?"

Especially since PCT and RDM are at the limits of their movement potential (and SCH is already in the “just drop casts to position you are a healer anyway” phase)