SE casting hate towards BLM players for changes they didn't want or ask for

[Rithy255]

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Thank you for your post, Pretty much agree with what you've said here, I may have got pretty annoyed myself in previous posts because it came across as "well your forum character doesn't have a black mage at 100 so you clearly don't know what your talking about!" (As I've said before, this character has been fairly inactive and I was leveling black mage on this character with the intent of taking it into savage so i dont fall behind on gear, before announced changes but I decided not to after seeing recent changes).

I find it so weird that they would stalk my profile and go onto sites to check my characters savage activity to try and prove a point? like "oh this character has black mage at 94 clearly it's impossible that they don't have more then one character" I just wish they would have actually engaged with my post instead.

I personally don't think you need to be some master of black mage to have a opinion on it in the first place, but the fact is I have brought it to savage and some ext's (not ultimate's, but I'm more towards the "midcore"). I'm likely not the worlds greatest black mage expert honestly, but I did enjoy the job for years before the rework.

I'm fine with people disagreeing with me here, some people have moved to black mage because its more easy/friendly, I don't deny it's played a part into it being more popular (Though we don't really know the exact numbers of people leaving it vs playing it because they find it actually fun/better), but we also have to look at other factors into play rates, black mage being pretty much a top tier caster which isn't hard to pickup will also have a massive impact in play rate. But theirs also a lot of people who don't really even want to engage with caster as a whole like myself anymore I enjoyed it for the long cast times and positioning dependence, the reward I felt for playing it well. I personally think they should put more skill expression into jobs again like black mage, maybe I should have worded it a bit more calmy (I don't know) I'm very pessimistic about the current state of the game and voice my opinion often.