Quote Originally Posted by Rithy255 View Post
They need to revert it, cast times most importantly.

If they want to give blm more room and less chances to mess up, Give black mage a spammable movement option that's a slight damage loss but resets the timer for emergency situations where you need to move or if you mess up astral fire timers.

I'd also remove Astral Gauge this gauge has caused so many issues with how black mage is designed, they can either make flare star a upgrade or be a follow up attack from despair (either one is fine) I personally resent this gauge as I think it's a key reason why people have been complaining about DT BLM and hence we got this bad rework.
After played new BLM the whole new story part:

I love the change. You are now much faster and stil has your casting time. Its around the same time, as the other caster. You are only less punished by movement.
The removal of the timer is even nice., Because you dont need to restart your rotation, because of mechanic.
It only feels weird, to not have the timer anymore. And, that you can now spam fire4 until your mp is empty. So much, that you could forget paradox and fire3.

In my view is it a great upgrade. Because, it fixed the biggest 2 problems of the blm (has heared many times, that some dislike him, because he is so slow and, the timer can easily be forgotten, esspecialy by non main blm).
The only complain i have is: That spellspeed becomes meaningless (at last does it feels that way).

BLM is the only class, that could use Speed effectivly. But, because the casting time is now so fast, has it the feeling, that it has barely any meaning now (have currently a ct of 1,84s, that doesnt look so much differently to 2s). Mean, that whe would equip or stuff with crit mats to now. Like every other caster.