BLM looks to get more standard in 6.0, unlikely that transpose optimization will remain. You can probably still B4 skip depending on icyhot spell mana cost but B4 is also such a fast cast now that it might not be worth skipping anymore. We’ll have to see what the tooltips say to determine if it’s worth.
Timestamps:
0:00 Start
0:22 Eno Trait
1:45 Umbral Ice and Astral Fire conditional swap for bonus actions
3:00 F2 and B2 new upgrades
4:01 Sharpcast two charges and proc duration extension
5:49 Unpacking the Job Action Trailer
15:50 Hotbar/skill icons/mystery skill??
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Thanks for the video,very enlightening!
Maybe you need to have casted B4 or Despair before you swap phase to get the new skill?
I assumed that was blizzard 5 and fire 5. Interesting that it’s the new aoe spells
thanks for the video! love these
Thoughts on skill expression in jobs being lowered/removed in favor of smoother play? Also, calling those lukewarm stacks.
New ice spell looks like the pyramid and ozma from the Void Ark raids!
Small correction: @6:30 B4 may not have a fast cast. I forgot that you can start queueing the spell cast as soon as the first one ends, so he is already partway through the B4 cast when I said he 'just started it'.
Oops!
Maybe B4 skip will still be a thing in EW 🙂
Great video! So in short, all we got was a new AOE rotation, and the rest is essentially the same? I guess it's all riding on what the effect of the frostfire spell actually is? (other than a glorified fire 1) If it's just a filler spell used in both ice and fire phases… then that's actually quite sad. Here's hoping the tooltips give better news. Well, there's still the mistery skill not shown on the trailer. Sharpcast thing is also good news, but again, not radically different. Hopefully instant foul is really a thing even at level 70….
we needed new aoe spells so bad im happy
Here's a theory, I still think the frostfire spell needs to have an additional effect of some kind. I'm thinking the next spell is free allowing you to use despair right after it, effectively having 2 despairs in a single fire phase. Otherwise, I really don't see the purpuse.
I imagine the hybrid spell in the video will replace fire 1 on the hot bar, and there will also be another hybrid spell that replaces ice 1, making that spell relevant again.
Edit: Wait, am i getting this right on the AOE rotation?
High Ice 2 to swap to or activate ice phase
Thunder 3 for the meme
Freeze to get 3 Hearts
New Hybrid spell, probably for damage
High Fire 2 thrice, once to swap to fire phase and two more to use hearts
Flare on the last Heart
Flare again to spend the remaining Mana
Flare again after Manafont
Flare again after Ether
Foul whenever it comes up
repeat form High Ice 2
That's… basically just the current single target rotation with different mana usage in the fire phase. Though this will probably feel a lot better that the current rotation, with 3 AOE spells that you never use.