Thread: 7.2 BLM Praise Thread

I would not even bother posting anything positive regarding 'any job' in the official forums.

Official forums has always been well known for being mostly bitter and negative about any job changes.

There are good things about the changes and some bad. But you'll never get the very small, but very loud group of ppl from official forums to focus on anything positive.

As an important note: *I'm saying this as someone who believes that the game's community has a lot of toxic positivity atm*

I’m just tired of all the BLMs crying and whining. They’ve been doing this on repeat since Stormblood any time they’re not the best in slot option.

I don’t care about their agenda, but it’s so annoying how every facet of conversation regarding balance or heck even the game rn is either somewhere between Black Mages malding or Wuk Lamat. Guys, they don’t care, they didn’t care when Kaiten died and they’re not going to care now.

While I agree that Paradox feels a little out of place now since it isn't needed to keep your timer rolling.. I'm quite enjoying the changes myself. The faster cast speed means my boom class booms more boom per minute. Being able to deal with mechanics easier is just upside even when we had several tools to deal with them before.

Black Mage plays fantastic now, even the PvP changes were great.

Still suffers from Buttonbloat though.

Originally Posted by Arohk

Still suffers from Buttonbloat though.

I mean, for sure. But that's a problem all jobs have, tanks and healers included. FFXIV is a game of having too many buttons do too similar things with each one feeling individually too weak to care.
(this is why we notice impactful-feeling buttons such as Picto Hammer, BLM High Thunder or such, their animations/vfx promote them to this status as their effects cannot, being buried in a sea of ultimately samey effects)

It's a problem that I'd love to see solved (less buttons with more meaningful uses!), but it has to be a game-wide thing to do, otherwise some jobs would feel really bad that had not gotten that treatment yet. Note also that this doesn't mean doing the Summoner stuff. The Summoner change could have been good, had the reduction to just a handful of buttons been used to create meaningful gameplay from the - on paper - rather interesting major->minor cycle. Which it does not, and hence it all feels pretty bad. It could have been great and in fact fairly involved as gameplay, but the devs seem not interested in doing that, which is extra shameful as here was a job that could have exemplified depth of gameplay without complexity of button interactions, the pinnacle of gameplay development after all.

Originally Posted by Carighan

I mean, for sure. But that's a problem all jobs have, tanks and healers included.

some jobs are certainly worse than other when it comes to bloat, but black mage is one of the most overbloated jobs.

here are some solutions to help with this problem :

Transpose & Umbral Soul:

Make Transpose turn into Umbral Soul when Umbral Ice is Active.

Fire & Ice

Make Fire IV Turn into Blizzard IV and vice versa, depending on Ice or Fire stance. (same for the AOE version)

Flare Star:

Make Fire 3 turn into Flare Star when Astral gauge is full.


Scathe:

Useless skill, can be removed.

I love the changes to Black Mage