BLM Changes Are Fantastic. The timers were so annoying. Thanks FFXIV team ! :)

[Grimr]

with the timers gone, there is no point to cast fire 1/3 or paradox anymore. Kinda rips the heart out of the class but this was done so they could keep up the difficulty nothing more. Honestly now there are too many mechanics when you have to pay attention and not cast at all or it gets you killed.

They need to decide if they are gong keep these changes then blm needs a rework no more paradox and maybe merge fire 1 into fire 3 or something.

[Carighan]

with the timers gone, there is no point to cast fire 1/3 or paradox anymore. Kinda rips the heart out of the class but this was done so they could keep up the difficulty nothing more. Honestly now there are too many mechanics when you have to pay attention and not cast at all or it gets you killed.

You cast Paradox for Firestarter. You never wanted to cast Fire 1 or 3 mid-cycle anyways. Nothing changed, except that you're a bit free where in the cycle to use Paradox now, which helps a lot with intermittent movement.

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

You cast Paradox for Firestarter. You never wanted to cast Fire 1 or 3 mid-cycle anyways. Nothing changed, except that you're a bit free where in the cycle to use Paradox now, which helps a lot with intermittent movement.

I think what they meant to say is "Fire 1 no longer has a point at Lv60+ up to Lv90 when you learn Paradox, because Fire IV has the same MP cost, more potency and Fire I doesn't guarantee firestarter for transpose Fire III lines like Paradox does, therefore you just use Fire IV 7x instead of 6x because you no longer need it to refresh Astrla Fire".

How in god's name they (devs, QnA team, etc) haven't noticed that is beyond me.

[Mecia]

Im glad you can enjoy a job for its visuals.

[rishie]

you found them annoying and clunky because you didnt play the job. literally every blm player that actually enjoyed the job for what it was liked having to actually use their brain sometimes. u can play literally 3 other casters for the braindead experience u wanted lol

[CalvinDescoles]

i am sorry for all blm and feels their lose (as a former ShB smn), but i do actually like the change and do make me want to play more blm.

Change is not always for the best (at least not for the veteran) but it was made to make it more popular to low / mid core players i do think :x

[Rithy255]

Im glad you can enjoy a job for its visuals.

That's the only reason to pick a job anymore is for its visuals.

Nothing of substance, but if you like how job look you pick. Wonderful game design.

[RulerOfPotaoes]

The changes were needed for the sake of the game. Since it's kinda stupid for one single job to hold back the entire game's encounter design due to being so slow, static and dependent on timers.

Almost everyone agrees that the new faster paced encounters in the new raid series is extremely good.

On a very important side note: I chuckle at the people completely invalidating your opinion and frankly anyone's who didn't like the old blackmage. Cuz ofc it doesn't matter if you want to *specifically* play blackage. Classic official forums toxicity, lol smh.

[Supersnow845]

The changes were needed for the sake of the game. Since it's kinda stupid for one single job to hold back the entire game's encounter design due to being so slow, static and dependent on timers.

Almost everyone agrees that the new faster paced encounters in the new raid series is extremely good.

On a very important side note: I chuckle at the people completely invalidating your opinion and frankly anyone's who didn't like the old blackmage. Cuz ofc it doesn't matter if you want to *specifically* play blackage. Classic official forums toxicity, lol smh.

1) It isn’t one job holding back the game. The most immobile class is SCH and the most immobile damage caster prior to these changes is RDM. BLM has been extremely mobile for 2 expansions now

2) if encounter designs only answer To boredom is “go faster” it’s flawed encounter design because it doesn’t allow casters to play to their fantasy. Some of us like casting long big nukes and being forced to constantly run around the arena isn’t terribly great to our fantasy. Like I’ll say that while I like M5 the fact that the dance mechanic interrupts casts yet the boss moves so that melee will have the boss next to their spotlight is obvious design that isn’t catering to casters

“Just go faster” isn’t compatible with a game that has half its classes be casters and people enjoy playing said casters

[Kaen_Yume]

yooo great opinion pal anyways where is the dislike button