New? Got too many skills? Made the mistake of using a level skip and have no idea what anything does? Just hate reading? Try this guide out!
This guide seeks to teach new Black Mages how to Black Mages properly, without getting too deep into optimization. I’ll be showing off and explaining some openers but not delving too much deeper beyond that and general skill usage. Endgame is a long way away and there’s lots to learn along the way. Start slow and work your way up one skill at a time! Then, graduate to more advanced guides.
General DPSing Guide: https://youtu.be/QV7gLorSweo
Mage Role Actions Guide: https://youtu.be/Hj7PpuSvCH4
Guide to my HUD: https://youtu.be/GgXOHas9GyY
Dictionary of Terms: https://youtu.be/Oi8-myAY-Uc
Opener images: https://imgur.com/a/vy4FIwU
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Timestamps:
Intro: 0:00
Playstyle Summary: 1:59
L1, 2. Aspect Mastery, Blizzard, and Fire: 2:35
L4. Transpose: 4:35
L6. Thunder: 5:27
Role Actions: 6:49
L12: Blizzard II: 7:06
Role Action: 8:04
L15. Scathe: 8:08
Role Action: 9:17
L18. Fire II: 9:21
L20. Maim and Mend: 9:49
L20. Aspect Mastery II: 10:01
L26. Thunder II: 10:28
L30. Manaward: 11:26
Job Requirements: 12:09
L30. Manafont: 12:25
L35. Aspect Mastery III: 13:06
L35. Fire III and Blizzard III: 14:02
L35. Umbral Soul: 15:21
L35. Rotations and Opener: 16:38
L40. Maim and Mend II: 19:05
L40. Freeze: 19:19
L42. Firestarter: 19:56
Role Action: 20:41
L45. Thunder Mastery and Thunder III: 20:45
L50. Aetherial Manipulation: 21:11
L50. Flare: 22:15
L50. AoE Opener: 23:00
L52. Ley Lines: 24:35
L56. Enochian: 25:33
L58. Umbral Heart and Blizzard IV: 25:50
L58. AoE Rotation: 27:58
L60. Fiare IV: 28:45
L60. Opener: 30:00
L62. Between the Lines: 31:00
L64. Thunder Mastery II and Thunder IV: 31:43
L66. Triplecast: 32:11
L70. Enhanced Enochian: 33:50
L70. Foul: 34:45
L70. Opener: 35:45
L72. Despair: 37:55
L74. Enhanced Enochian II: 38:35
L80. Enhanced Polyglot and Enhanced Foul: 38:47
L80. Xenoglossy: 39:31
L80. Opener: 40:14
L82. Aspect Mastery IV, High Fire II, and High Blizzard II: 41:17
L84. Enhanced Manafont: 41:32
L86. Enhancecd Enochian III: 42:03
L86. Amplifier: 42:10
L90. Aspect Mastery V and Paradox: 42:44
L90. Opener: 45:05
L92. Thunder Mastery III, High Thunder, and High Thunder II: 47:25
L96. Retrace: 48:12
L98. Enhanced Enochian IV: 49:00
L98. Enhanced Polyglot II: 49:06
L100. Enhanced Astral Fire and Flare Star: 49:35
L100. Openers: 50:56
Outro: 54:04
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I erroneously included Blizzard in the Rotations after getting Blizzard IV. This is because of the Paradox in the 90+ Rotations. Skip this Blizzard unless you need an Umbral Ice refresh. I will fix this for the images in the description. My apologies for this mistake.
Thanks so much for this guide! BLM was my first main, hopefully now I'll be a little less awful at it.
This is perfect timing! I was just realizing there were some changes with BLM with dawntrail as I was leveling the job
Excellent video as always, Wesk!
Really not a fan of Flare Star. It puts the rotation on rails. And It looks, sounds, and IS pretty limp. Then again, they did similar nonsense with almost every class this expansion. I'm calling it Dawnrails, because they put everything on rails. Thou shalt play how YoshiP wants you to play, or else. Big meh.
I keep wanting them to do something neat with Scathe. Thank you for the guide! It'll be especially helpful because I'm planning on leveling blm next
How should I gem BLM? Go with a rapid fire turret (heavy on SpS) or a slow, big boom turret (heavy on Crit/Det)?
Edit: I do lean on the big boom side. Much of my melds are SA XII, SM XII with like the occasional QT XII. But, I want to know the BLM cognoscenti on melding.
I'm still a little bummed at how I loved lvl 99 BLM but then stopped having as much fun at lvl 100. Being given an inflexible Flare Star spell with a long cast time but the progression beforehand did not provide very much in terms of new movement tools (just an extra Ployglot stack)… I'm not sure this was a good idea.
Lvl 70 Foul – casted but you're given complete freedom when you use it as long as you don't overcap
Lvl 80 Xeno – great instant cast movement tool with big damage
Lvl 90 Paradox – great instant cast movement tool with moderate damage and helps in buff management
Lvl 100 Flare Star – inflexible and changes rotation, must be casted
ah yes, my favorite level 60 BLM spell, Flare 4
Just obtained the BLM job so this will come extremely handy indeed – thank you so much for all the work and attention you put into these
Why does Flare Star suuuuuuuck
I might not have needed to watch this, but thanks for keeping me sane at work ❤
Great job as always with the guide!!!
I was just thinking this morning about picking BLM back up since leveling it to 80 back in ShB, and there your video was. I’ll take it as a sign!
the opening gags really got me asdf
Why don't instead of re making these entire videos, don't just make a new one with the changes and add ups and say on the start that ppl need to watch the old one first?
I love the Umbral Soul and Manafont changes, sooo good.
i cant wait til blm has 50 gauge things to look at
i love blm aoe, penta flare just activates all the neurons
Attention duty! Please be aware that I am about to use one of my core class abilities which is called Leylines.
These videos are singlehandedly the reason i have explored all the jobs in the game. They not only help understand the job from beginner level to well enough to feel confident in party content but also help show the syngery of the skills. Reading the tool tips is good and all but weskAlber's explanations make it so i dont forget how it all works. Also helps me plan out my hotbars. Even if i will never main some of the jobs you do videos on I will always watch your videos start to finish just for the comprehensive understanding of others jobs. Thank you for these videos, truly.
Ff14 seems so fun I really should get back into it.
glad to see you still pumping out vids for the FF community and stuff little bro, miss hearing you down the hall behind Richie lol, hope your doing well man.
Im been playing this game for a long time now and i still look at your guides.. im glad you put out the blk mage lvl 100.
I really appreciate these guides, thanks so much.
Sorry for being that guy, but Paradox is actually 520 rn, and 500 is a typo in the English tooltip
(If it were 500 it would be weaker than a hard F4)
Kind of a nitpick, but just wanted to see the enemies' status effect when you do the openers, just so I could see at what point you reapply it. Obviously not needed, but just that lol. Been seeing some videos where people reapply thunder as early as 6 seconds left.
Something you've glossed over (no pun intended) is that the Firestarter proc you get in the Standard opener isn't used after Despair. Normally that proc is used for Transpose optimization; I know you didnt touch on that because its a beginner guide, but I think you should've included the extra Fire 3 in the opener for completion
I love you for these videos, what job will be next?
Agree with the intro. Black Mage is f*cking awesome!
(Even if I have had fun dipping my toes into Picto)
Been so, sooo looking forward to this guide- thanks as always Wesk!
Thank you for filling my boring roulettes with some amazing content to put on my second screen. Always looking forwards to these guides!
Back when I was a sprout, I did the stupid thing and job-skipped Black Mage because I thought “500,000 gil??? An almost-max-level job?? Let’s goo”. It’s been my little corner of shame nowadays so this video came in clutch so I can actually learn BLM
I've been waiting for this 😍
black mage is my favourite class in the game, and I learnt it through your endwalker guide (same with Monk). These guides are easily the best on youtube
Hell yeah, how'd you know I just started ffxiv and needed this? 🤣 GREAT GUIDE
Thanks for including upkeep rotations, that's a hole missing from a lot of job guides.
So much boss dancing in Dawntrail. I really wish Despair gained the enhanced Flare or the lowered mp cost of umbra hearts.
why did they have to fkn ruin black mage in dawntrail
I hope you do Monk next plz 🙏
I like the changes black mage got. Having Fire Paradox be instant, always grant Firestarter, and the big bump in “power” given by Manafont are so nice. I will admit that losing Astral Soul upon switching to ice is quite punishing, on the same level as messing up a Ninjutsu and having that 860 potency Raiton turn into nothing.
Thank you
For the 100 Opener, that second fire iv after double weaving triple cast and leylines seems almost impossible without having the astral fire timer run out what gives? 2.38 ss btw. Honestly this job is so scuffed this expansion like what the hell where they thinking?
Metalocalypse reference within the first minute of the video?? Perfection
53:18
Yoshi P: SUCH BALANCE THIS WAS NOT MY INTENTION
It will be funny if/when Enochian eventually goes over 50%.
Maybe it'll go all the way to 100%?
this is too much for my tiny tiny brain T-T
Dunno how to feel about DT nlack mage, the loss of sharpcast is not missed for me since I did not like using it, but at the same time Black mage dod not get anything new that feels really good to use.
I have two more confusing jobs after extension is monk and nija too 😢
These guides are easily the best across all of YT,Reddit and any other place . I hope you do them for all the rest of the jobs at 100
Just came back after 2 years. Haven't bought dawntrail cause im still trying to slog through ng+ arr cause EW really didn't click with me due to starting in Stormblood. Burnout from EW followed by ARR made me quit and while I was able to pick up 90 BLM quick enough trying to grasp the changes made to sub 50 about gave me a stroke trying to relearn my class in a bardams roulette followed by a eden ramuh. Dunno what made me think starting out with BLM as my returning job was a good idea but here I am, trying to learn what in the hell they did to this job since I left 2 years ago lol
I miss the good old times when blizzard II was cast around you.