The destruction of BLM

[XenaCircei]

Probably many people talked about this already but i gotta ask why did they do this, enochian wasn't an issue for people who knew how to play the job decently, BLM mains don't like speed mage at all. They tried to standardize towards a picto like class and black mage mains were not playing picto and stayed using BLM for that specific reason. Yoshi P said they went to easy on us players and they're gonna try to make the game harder while doing the entire opposite by making the hardest job so easy and braindead, i guess all the people that do like the changes are prob persons that does not know how to play BLM properly in the first place. The job lost it's all soul.

[Jeeqbit]

So, I knew how to play BLM just fine and was playing it before the changes. It was fun working with the timer as a challenging aspect to it and I was in the "RIP BLM" camp.

But I've also been playing it since the changes in Mentor Roulette. It's actually not as bad as I thought. In retrospect, it makes you realize the timers were just an annoyance. The planning aspect is still there due to Leylines and the changes to Fire IV don't really change that it has a long cast time and requires you to consider a solution for movement such as: Polygot use, Paradox, Thunder, Triple Cast, etc.

They did explain their reasoning which is that they felt it wouldn't handle the new raid mechanics well.

I thought that BLM would still be rough in M8 despite the changes but I just did it today and it's really quite easy to play BLM in there. The population of BLMs has definitely exploded since the patch. Any dungeon I get often has another BLM in. I've been in trials and raids in Mentor Roulette with 3 BLMs even today... the BLM population has really exploded in a way I've never seen before.

[Daralii]

The actual battle content designers been pretty transparent about it in patch notes and interviews- they don't want to take a lot of jobs that play differently into consideration when designing savage/ultimate fights, so they will design the fights around 4 1/2 roles and sand down any element of any job that's an outlier. Listening to Yoshi-PR is by and large pointless because he himself has said that he barely pays attention to what's going on in XIV due to other projects and responsibilities.

[XenaCircei]

So, I knew how to play BLM just fine and was playing it before the changes. It was fun working with the timer as a challenging aspect to it and I was in the "RIP BLM" camp.

But I've also been playing it since the changes in Mentor Roulette. It's actually not as bad as I thought. In retrospect, it makes you realize the timers were just an annoyance. The planning aspect is still there due to Leylines and the changes to Fire IV don't really change that it has a long cast time and requires you to consider a solution for movement such as: Polygot use, Paradox, Thunder, Triple Cast, etc.

They did explain their reasoning which is that they felt it wouldn't handle the new raid mechanics well.

I thought that BLM would still be rough in M8 despite the changes but I just did it today and it's really quite easy to play BLM in there. The population of BLMs has definitely exploded since the patch. Any dungeon I get often has another BLM in. I've been in trials and raids in Mentor Roulette with 3 BLMs even today... the BLM population has really exploded in a way I've never seen before.

I feel like the only reason behind the number of BLM players is either cause it's easier and cause it's the "meta" right now, with all the meta slaves and all, kinda what we had with the picto at launch

[Avoidy]

I feel like the only reason behind the number of BLM players is either cause it's easier and cause it's the "meta" right now, with all the meta slaves and all, kinda what we had with the picto at launch

There are a lot of people who had always wanted to try it because the job is sort of iconic, but had felt intimidated by all the memes about it being the big brain 5D chess job. Now that the memes have reversed course and BLM is the crayon eater job, everyone who was anxious about it can give it a shot without feeling like they're gonna get flamed in the chat for being garbo at it or whatever. I think a lot more people fall into this camp than the meta camp, but it's anyone's guess obviously.
Having tried the job since its change, I'll say this. It's a lot more relaxed (to me at least) than it felt before and way more forgiving. It used to be a job I felt like I had to lock in to be good with, but now I can just chill with it and it's my relax job. Sucks for the folks who liked the old ways though, I really feel for them.

[JohnConstantine]

the BLM population has really exploded in a way I've never seen before.

FF14 has finally reached terminal cancer when the jobs are all just fotm like in all the dying KMMOs.

[Rithy255]

I love how they keep downgrading jobs for the sake of encounter design, the system that has been held back by poor snapshots.

Now we just play DDR with delay what a fun game!

[Supersnow845]

I can’t wait till they accidentally buff PCT again and all the people who just play the easy meta pick dump BLM again.

Like if your only measure for success is “if numbers go up it’s a success” when you change a class to be easier AND buff it you basically can’t lose in the immediate future, but it never stays like that

[DiaDeem]

[Raim]

Dont speak for others. I know a few BLM mains who like the changes.