Thread: 7.2 BLM Praise Thread

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.

I love the changes to Black Mage

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.

Im someone who like the new changes mostly.
The only thing where i changed my mind a bit over the days is the spellspeed. Ok, i have 1,88 ct in average, maybe i am a bit faster. But it feels now truly a bit to fast with the casting.
I like the faster speed visually and for mechanics, where you has to move a lot or has little casting time. In addition was the blm a bit slow previously.

But after the few days has i noticed, that he shoot his big spells a bit to fast. And has a differently feeling now. Maybe, they could change the speed to the middle of the old one and the new one.
In addition feels leyline to short now. I understand it. But it feels weird, because you has barely the time now, to resummon it or move back to it, should you had to move earlier.

The big + points is still the removing of the timers (where a increase to 20s could maybe had worked to). Because, you can now wait in your rotation, until the down time is over.
In overall do i like the new Version. But start to understand a bit the people who want it slower down to.

Originally Posted by caffe_macchiato

This thread is for those who prefer 7.2 BLM over its predecessor. I personally do not understand why pushing buttons in sequence needs to have artificial difficulty (or as I call, “fake fun”). Your Astral/Umbral timer does not add anything substantive to the game. As of 7.2, your rotation has not changed AT ALL. The ONLY thing different is a number on the screen. Actually, something did change: you’ll finally be able to do mechanics! Your party members will be so happy with you that they’ll let you back in Party Finder.

Now, I know what you all are thinking: this was YOUR class, right? You in The Balance Discord who hoard “theorycrafting” “strategies”? You don’t want those “other people” playing “your” class. If BLM becomes a class for plebeians, you’re no longer special. Is that it?

I’ve been playing this game for over nine years. Black mage has never been difficult. You chose to make fake fan theories and write a whole book based on babble from The Balance Discord server. Well, guess what? It’s my class too. I’m not in your Discord, never have been, never will be, and most importantly, I don’t care about your “theorycrafting” or your “meta”. Black mage is the press-fire-then-ice class. That’s it.

If you don’t like it, please unsubscribe. Better yet, please liquidate The Balance Discord and all associated publications. This game belongs to the people.

Either you never played BLM pre-7.2 or you're of a huge bad faith. The core rotation indeed didn't change, but all decision-making regarding the job is basically gone. Using Xeno during AF could be an issue with the timer, which again required some decision-making on the go. Now, you can just dump your Xeno stacks whenever you need mobility or to prevent orvercapping without a second thought. You needed to know when keeping Triple/Swift for mobility was needed and when you can just use them for DPS gain. Now it's purely mobility tools, use them as you need them. Paradox now serves no purpose, it's just an instant F4 that you dump whenever you need a little bit of mobility.

There's already 20 other jobs out there, most of them being already idiot-proof. Do people wanting a little bit of complexity really cannot have a single one ?

As for your weird rant about The Balance, I'm not even gonna say anything.

Only issue i see with the blm is cast times being shorter than gc, which breaks the flow a bit.

Originally Posted by Yeonhee

Either you never played BLM pre-7.2 or you're of a huge bad faith. The core rotation indeed didn't change, but all decision-making regarding the job is basically gone. Using Xeno during AF could be an issue with the timer, which again required some decision-making on the go. Now, you can just dump your Xeno stacks whenever you need mobility or to prevent orvercapping without a second thought. You needed to know when keeping Triple/Swift for mobility was needed and when you can just use them for DPS gain. Now it's purely mobility tools, use them as you need them. Paradox now serves no purpose, it's just an instant F4 that you dump whenever you need a little bit of mobility.

There's already 20 other jobs out there, most of them being already idiot-proof. Do people wanting a little bit of complexity really cannot have a single one ?

As for your weird rant about The Balance, I'm not even gonna say anything.

I am on the fence, I like the shorter cast time allow player to be a bit more “greedy”. However I do miss the timer and it does feel like something missing. However, I don’t think job complexity should be implemented by having to memorise the fight and keeping eye on boss HP bar.

I would prefer boss fight mechanics to be more reactionary than being a boss HP accountant. Unfortunately, we seem heading towards more and more the memory game