The FFXIV Black Mage Dilemma 

I have a friend who is super slow and constantly makes mistakes in rotation yet still enjoys black mage despite it's challenge. The passive MP regen with one umbral ice let them have leeway in moving around whilst regening, now they will have to strictly cast ice spells to get that regen. This might actually put off some casual players too who liked the passive MP regen.

Losing ice paradox hurts the most for me, i love that spell and being able to cast in both frost and fire was cool. It also made sense since its both elements in one

"drastically different" ...... Not even monk is as drastically different as EW Smn vs ShB Smn.

These are the skill that will be deleted or change in Dawntail 7.0 Dark Knight [Blood Weapon(delete), Delirium(delete), Plunge(delete)] Gunbreaker [Rough Divide(delete)] Dragoon [Dragon Sight(delete), Spineshatter Dive(delete)] Ninja [Huton(effects will change), Huraijin(delete)] Samurai [Kaeshi: Higanbana(delete), Shoha(effects will change), Shoha 2(delete)] Bard [Wanderer's Minuet(effects will change), Mage's Ballad(delete), Army's Paeon(effects will change) Black Mage [Sharpcast(delete)] Astrologian [Minor Arcana and Draw(effects will change), Redraw(delete), Astrodyne(delete)]

I'm new to the game and I was gonna play black Mage and I did a little research before I did but that stocks for everybody hopefully it gets better

Sorry for being off-topic, but how did you get the overhead HP bars to be big like that? I've been trying to figure that out but haven't been able to. I do have Dalamud, if that's required. More on topic, as someone who only plays standard Black Mage I'm looking forward to the changes. My only concern is how they handle out-of-combat mana management at lower levels (when you don't have Umbral Soul). It would suck if your only option is to lose all stacks and wait for passive mana recovery.

Like don't get me wrong I agree it's a bit of a bummer that your loosing non standard but, I feel like you can't expect square to cater to a play style they never intended to be a thing in the first place, FF players got smart and played around with the server tick system, which yes is advanced stuff but if it wasn't intended to be played that way because of a bad system using mana tick, I don't feel like square should have to deal with the nightmare of re designing the job around a system they didn't intend. But it's nice to see your someone keeping a positive outlook on it too, it's nice to see someone not totally jumping on the shit train

1:57 the amount of MP restored depends on your stacks of umbral ice: 2.5k at UI 1; 5k at UI 2; and 10k at UI 3. so from AF 3, B3 --> UI 3 means one B4 fully restores your MP. (as of media tour info) also sick art uwu

I thought the overwhelming consensus from the ppl that went to the media tour was that picto and viper are hella easy...? The combo quite literally guides you through the optimal rotation for those jobs.

Transpose will still be used very often bc its still ideal to instacast blizzard 3 under ice or use your guaranteed firestarter fire 3 under fire. Casting those in the opposite element makes them do massively reduced damage.

Over 90% of the content in the game is level-synced. It's getting really obvious what they've been trying to do for the last 2 expansions, and now Dawntrail. I wonder how long it will take for people to understand that the goal is to cripple levelling even more. (I guess the boost pots are not selling that well?)

I'm a casual blm main and I do like the changes but that's because I didn't invest the time in learning nonstandard rotation so not much is changing for me since I mainly stuck to the standard rotation. I am excited for the one time use to move ley lines though!! Haha

I always played BLM the way they are forcing us to now (ie I never did transpose shenanigans) so for me these changes are a win as its only making the way I was already playing BLM even better. I can see how the BLM players that were playing more nonstandard would be disappointed though, but yeah I personally love it and am looking forward to it.

I've been playing BLM since 2.0 at the start. We had our high and lows for sure. Some claim BLM is one of the hardest jobs to pick up. I tend to agree. I have cleared every savages and extreme with BLM so far and I still love BLM. I like how we are not a reactive job but more of proactive job. Which naturally makes BLM the hardest to proc with. I am to a point where I tend to memorize floor patterns and the timing of my comrade as part of my rotation. That being said, I feel like BLM has to jump thru so much hurdles to make it work. Where as SMN is a braindead job that aren't too far from BLM's average people's capabilities. I feel like BLM gameplay is risky in nature but low on reward. Either make the job more accessible or make it more rewarding to play. BLM already suffers from stigmata.

I’m so happy that we don’t have to keep up with the thunder dot anymore and just cast it when swapping elements. It makes me wonder if this will make ss blm more viable since we can just cast two ice spells without waiting for server ticks and go back into fire faster. I’m pretty open minded to these new changes honestly.

I'm honestly so over being mad about job changes. It's always like buff and dot taken away from monk, monk deadge, non standard blm gone, blm deadge, kaiten removed from samurai, the job is literally unplayable. I get that it means a lot to people, and i don't want to trivialise that, but I'm so done with dooming myself, and just want to focus on the cool shit

I finally get comfortable with BLM, now this. It's Shadowbringers Astro all over again.

I don't mind BLM skill ceiling being lowered. I've always wanted to main the job since ShB but didn't have the knowledge and skill to play it at savage+ level. I didn't even know non standard existed since I always played standard. They removed the proc rng that I hated about the job. So overall a win for me. I get why some players are frustrated still.

only 30 secs in vid to hear about the Blm dilemma is about and no the job isnt dead its just a job that is rarely used outside of endgame content afterall all jobs suck below lvl 60 but Blm suck even harder in potd they call Blm scathe mage

I'm but a noob on BLM, but I'm glad Sharpcast is gone. It never really felt right to manage. And the dual purpose of buffing Fire III somewhat like an illusion of choice, or at the best a niche application I'd forget if it ever came up. It somehow felt likethe job was made more complex just for the sake of complexity, basically managing 2 buttons to apply 1 effect.

Lmao never liked blm so had no idea about this