Ty SE for BLM changes!

[Auro_Seldaris]

I was quite content to leave my initial post to stand on it's own. I've made my point and didn't discuss further with others because I had nothing to add or detract. I responded because they quoted me and were rude about it. Some people are unhappy with the changes and that's perfectly valid. SMN could do with some complexity being returned for sure, but I am much happier that it actually matches it's name and expectation I have for a summoner, when I was new and found it to be more of a dot mage with only the occaisional cool summon I was disappointed. Although much as I do love bahamut I was not thrilled to see them just tack on another version of bahamut to it for dawntrail, that feels really lazy. I like others was hoping for something like Odin, Ramuh, Shiva to be added as alternatives to Ifrit, Garuda and Titan.

I said already I enjoyed the slow BLM style a lot, I never liked sps blm at all. I wanted slow casts with big meaty hits. But given how much movement is in the combat encounters even the slower cast time is still feeling alright to me and I am enjoying the job still. It could still be made better, thunder still needing you to swap element is seeming laregly pointless for instance. And I hope in 8.0 they lean into the big booms aspect and change up the astral/umbral phase. I've as much to dislike over jobs being made more samey and simple in the name of broader appeal as anyone else given my three mained jobs in stb were AST, MNK and DRK. I've never been able to enjoy DRK since. On the plus side the newer classes having much less button bload and more approachable rotations means I've been able to recruit more friends to play who fell off other games due to have to many buttons to spam, *cough* WoW.

Now see, this is a post I can actually get behind. You have to admit, you initally came off as "Get bent, I like it". that was the only real reason for my irritation at you. Largely we agree on some things.

Such as this post? I totally agree. I do like that SMN is actually, ya know... a summoner now. Though I would like to add that, if people wanted the Dot Mage playstyle, they should have a job available for that, it's SE's fault for not providing that. I just feel they ruined the playstyle and the class fantasy of BLM just as bad as they did with (Dot mage)SMN with these changes.

BLM changes good, honestly
Only people complaining are those who made it playing that janky job their only defining trait
Even The Balance agrees after the servers went live, that the changes aren't as bad as they anticipated

The Balance are part of the problem, not the solution. As I said a few days ago in regards to AST changes and ruining the card system. They want everything made all the same, all the uniqueness filed off, all in the sake of MUH OPTIMIZATION.