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Black mage is dwarved by picto as far as damage goes but BLM has never been better imo
I agree with you on most things as someone who mained BLM for 10 years now. I switched to SMN this patch moving away from BLM for the first time in my FFXIV life, because the biggest joy for me playing BLM was, yes, it was sweaty and difficult to execute well, but the payoff was so nice when you were hitting those big numbers and other DPS struggled to keep up with you. Now it feels like no matter how perfect you are with your BLM, picto can just blow past you in DPS, and it no longer has that satisfying feeling of being great through hard work and excellent performance. It feels like I have to try twice as hard as usual, but instead of bringing the most damage as a result, I feel I'm easily surpassed by picto and that feeling made the difficulty of BLM no longer worth enduring for me. So I decided to just set aside the big damage and play an easier, more prog friendly class. But it's definitely left me sad inside. I miss my high damage. I like how you mentioned how unforgiving it is though, because I keep trying to explain that to others that don't play BLM and they just don't understand or try to tell me every class is difficult in its own way. Which just isn't true. No class is difficult the way BLM is. Though I've heard some things about monk.