It’s really that simple, how would you fix FFXIV Dawntrail Black mage? In the best way possible to return some of it’s flexibility or just to make it more fun overall to play? let me know in the comments and make sure to like and subscribe!
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The real tragedy is that you play with other spell effects on. Man, I can hardly see the bss lol
Black mage is in a really rough spot right now, but I think even just potency changes alone could be enough to make a big improvement on the state of the job, if they're willing to go far enough with it. First off, fix whatever janky mess is going on in the aoe rotation, why is high fire ii as weak as regular fire ii was in endwalker. If they're willing to change thunder's damage to come more from on hit damage rather than just the DoT, even if not to the same extent as endwalker, that'd still help flexibility a lot.
The biggest change they could make via potency though, would be making it worth it to use flare over despair if you're most of the way to a flare star, but can't fit in the last 1 or two hits for whatever reason, be it rotational mistakes, or upcoming downtime. It should still be worse than getting your flare star the normal way, but the fact that totally skipping it is better than using the built in alternative way to get it just feels so bad, and so silly. Especially since I actually quite like the animation of flare star, I think it looks sick!
Another change I'd really like to see is making thunderhead last longer, and being able to stack the buff, so if you don't need to refresh it right away, you can hold onto it longer. Compared to just allowing hardcasts of it again, this seems like a more interesting way to get around the issues the current system has with duo fights or adds phases, especially if they're unwilling to buff the on-hit potency, which I can see why they don't want hardcasts if they're keeping that working as is now.
I really love black mage and still think its pretty fun overall, and I'm sure with some buffs it can get back into a good spot balance-wise. I just hope that in doing so, they enable some more fun options, because the job has become so much more restrictive. There's plenty of ways even keeping the spirit of the changes to make things more interesting and more flexible, and I really hope they'd be willing to actually do those things.
What if flare star was a proc off amplifier and was more visually in line with what we had in bozja and as an aoe dot that stacked with thunder and maybe gave umbral hearts?
How to save blm > moving to picto and force the devs to rework it.
Just spam fire and blizzard