FFXIV: Endwalker Black Mage Guide [Patch 6.5] 

who ever is playing the piano in the background is SHREDDING

Easiest guide I've ever watched from any patch or any youtuber and I've been playing since 1.0! So clear and direct.

Playing this class because I love vivi lol

ty for guide. Decided to start my journey of suffering in this tier and this guide helped me a lot, ty :3

It's nice to know I was able to intuit most of the rotation myself, but I never would have thought of some of these optimizations. Very nice and straight to the point guide.

Yo thanks for the guide! It felt like I was doing something slightly off so this was a big help

THANK YOU for being the only video ive ever seen to make this make any sort of sense. everyone else just mumbles their way through a half baked explanation and doesnt explain anything but this was really helpful

Still a great video! I wish everyone would explain rotations like you do

This video taught me more about how to play black mage effectively more than any other source. Thank you, truly

bro the music you chose for this caught me, thanks for the guide, good stuff

Thanks for the guide! I love playing blm, but it’s to hard for my smoll brain. You helped me a lot!

Excellent video dude, very informative.

thank you! easy to understand

Great work, thanks!

here's a sub, love this video on blm, super helpful for getting reaquainted with blm

This is really helpful, although I feel like I struggle to remember to use Sharpcast at all. Granted, I'm not at level cap yet, but I've more or less ignored it this entire time unwittingly.

Thank you, I've always wanted to play black mage but the lack, or rather seemingly lack of mobility always pushed me more towards summoner, but the aesthetic of the job as well as the neuron activating explosions kept drawing me back

I find it fascinating how different people learn the jobs in different ways. For me the explanation of an abilities function within the rotation is essential or I'll forget when to use it. For some I imagine the rote lists of specific rotations are highly useful, though I'm not so good at memorizing them. I can't imagine who finds a video of someone doing the rotation useful, but I suppose there are even those.

I went with thm and blm later on... I saw the amount of spells but I'm determined to learning this job!

Great guides, thank you for that, keep up the good work. Could you please do a Paladin guide? I would really appreciate it.

I may have just missed it, but when using Mana Font after the first despair, is an excellent time to burn a polyglot to avoid clipping your upcoming fire IV gcd. I always pop a Xenoglossy after despair for Sharpcast anyway even though you can totally weave it in after Blizz 3 as well. Maybe my spell speed isn't high enough yet for this strat to be an issue, could see it becoming an issue later and running out of Polyglot charges. Though the relatively short cooldown on Amplifier might negate the issue. EDIT: Almost forgot, Fire 3 can be used on occasion instead when available, though I prefer to save it for re-entering AF3 via Paradox (ice) > Transpose > Firestarter EDIT2: I totally forgot that Transpose now screws up your fire-phase Paradox. Even more reason to use it after that first Despair, I guess! I am still kind of salty they took away the transpose trick; it was such a fun little optimization that had been around since ARR. :(

I play blm cus I hate myself and like having stress on top of the normal stress

Fantastic guide! but the background music is a tad too loud.

As someone whos been playing black mage for years, I really wish they'd do something about how much harder thunder management has gotten with the new gcds. Its started feeling really clunky vs old refresh thunder in blizzard phase, now having to use it after paradox or weave it in somewhere makes stuff feel constantly on edge. If they made it like 40s duration instead I feel like it'd be back to flowing so I dont have to keep tranpose weaving to min max thundertime lol

Nice title dude!

Bring the BOOM!

been learning BLM recently and loving the class. Finally got enough SPS for every slot without it being BiS yet. One thing i'm having difficulty with atm is the 2-minute raidbuff window. Is there a recommended rotation to do when this comes into play assuming its when your LeyLines/Manafont is ready? (apologies if it was mentioned in the video or comments already)

you need more views ty

in savage or extreme fights do you ever cycle back to the opener rotation once the long timer abilities start to come back up ?

yeah i dont think my brain can handle this lol

Just got to 90 and my entire fucking idea of this job got turned upside down

nice, new video

just checked this out but im not understanding, how are you casting paradox after starting using bliz 3 then 4? its only usable in fire phase? the icy veins says the same thing but its impossible

I don't know if I'm just being dumb, but I am trying to learn this opener after finally getting my Black Mage to 90, and I almost have it down to memory. However when I pass the opener and get to the rotation part, it feels like in the video you just get some proc for Paradox, where I have to use transpose to trigger it. Icy veins (and displayed in the video) doesn't have transpose listed anywhere in the rotation chart, the only proc I do get is from the opener! Trying to figure out what the heck I'm doing wrong.

How would you cast 2 flares without manawell?

I’m leveling it right now, and I feel so unsure of if Blizzard/Fire I are even useful anymore at my level. They do less damage than the III variants, but cast shorter, so idk if they’re useful or not

I'm sorry guy but the piano is so peaceful I literally can't retain any info or listen to this 'ere I fall asleep

the only thing i dont understand during the opener is why are we clipping our gcd on purpose with thunder 3 into triple cast.

It takes some time to get the hang of it but once u get the pattern down u can put in some serious damage. I just hate some of the solo content because u sometimes have multiple enemies chasing u when ur trying to spam spells. That’s why a chocobo aiding u in combat is really beneficial

My head is smoking, I've blue screen caused by opener QwQ

Spam Fire 1, got it

Idk why but using triple cast when standing in your leylines just doesn't make sense to me. Isn't it better to hold onto it when leyline ends?

Playing it after years bcs all other classes are dead for me :,)

That opener is killing me. I can't seem to get the timing down, even ignoring the utility in between (except triple and swift cast of course). Every time i get to despair my astral fire has like 1 sec and falls off. I wish there were some training grounds where you could reset your CDs. It's annoying waiting 2 min every time I fuck up on the training dummy

The music is absolutely gorgeous but makes it difficult to follow what you are saying. I’d suggest something more regular than romantic era piano as well as a mic upgrade if you can manage it. Best wishes and thank you.

What are the pants your wearing in the thumbnail called?

Not bad, although I was hoping there was some more low level insight into this as a new player.

I almost do this exact rotation on my own lol

No love for fire 1

BLM is the only job I am interested in but I am dyspraxia and have some trouble with physical coordination and can get easily overwhelmed when there is a lot happening on screen. I have tried my best to do the basic rotation but really struggle with it. My damage is often some one the lowest amongst my friends and my inability to deal good damage means we struggle with some content and I often get snarky remarks telling me how bad I am and that I should switch to another job. But I have zero interest in other jobs. It is getting to the point where I feel I should either solo content and not bother others with my presence or just flat out quit playing. Why did they have to make BLM such an unfriendly job?

I really wish this job held the top spot in dps. It's made for it but ninja keeps stealing that spot.

> Black mage guide > Not a lalafell I wont even watch it. You're doing it wrong.