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then, hear me out: a hivemind of death-head hawkmoths :lolaBased:

mmmmm pandemonium from pressure.......

Omg

BLM is by far my favourite job and has been since I finally picked it up late ShB. I will always enjoy it, but I got synced into an Aglaia recently and immediately realised I just enjoy it more at 90. It made me realise I genuinely think of Flare Star as button bloat and that does not feel good

Shiiiit this stuff is like crack what the hell I couldn’t take my eyes off of it

Which Orchestrion is this?

i miss tripple cast - despair - manafront - F4 - despair from endwalker at the end if a fire phase

This video was really fucking good. Being able to actually quantify and then explain how the numbers actually line up is amazing and really puts into perspective how the funny explosions do the funny damage. Mad respects

The only problem I have is that it feels like trolling to take Blackmage over Pictomancer into any content. I say that as a Blackmage main who is forced to play picto by that fact

I started playing black mage in 7.05 and I can't stop! It's just the funniest job in the game!!!! Thank you, sir!

I think the pps might be misleading in the case of blm. It would be better to compare total damage of a complete rotation (meaning we made a full loop) divided by the time length of rotation. That is because casting flares leads to 3 fire spells before needing to transition to an ice phase and loop. While high fires are less damage but result in a longer fire phase with "high" damaging spells and then an ice phase. Still there is no debate you should never use high fire/blizzard but the difference is not that extreme as pps would indicate.

Adding an extra af3f3p is a loss now because the pps of your overall standard rotation has increased so now a single af3f3p is lower pps than the sum total of f3 6f4 2para desp fs b3 b4 (this is because of instant despair change) I havent actually done the math im just giving an explination for what you said in the video

This is the first video of yours that i have seen but damn holy moly i love your style. Ur hilarious man definitely subbing for more of this

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BLM is The hot mess Job. All that brain work all that jank. /Smh

To me it still feel odd to be the only job to be punished for having to move.

Okay I've got one complaint on this whole video cause wtf man. How do you drop, a vtuber that cute at the end, not use it the whole time and ask us to watch you in that voice and not expect us to do that? Mean >:C lol On the video itself this actually explains a lot of why I see my numbers being pretty bad on AoE, I get it now and gonna try it out again with more Flare focus

There's a reason RDM has been my main all these years and now I also play PCT alongside it. They're just so much simpler and straightforward. I have kept my BLM leveled up this whole time as well, but damn I was never any good at it. I never understood why people were using triplecast when just standing there. I always kept it for movement, but seeing you explain PPS finally helped to make sense of it. I also didn't know about the nonstandard aoe rotation in dungeons or just using swiftcast for flare star whenever it was up. Maybe I'll give my BLM a spin now that I know some of these tricks....though I'll still be maining RDM/PCT.

In much less of a joke comment... My currently biggest issue with BLM is just whats said here, B2 and F2 are way underpowered for no reason. And while you may not be a fan, I still don't like Flare Star gutting all chances of non-standard lines by forcing you to cast 6 F4's or Yoshi P will steal your liver. I think non-standard was at a really good place last expansion of being very much optional, you didn't have to engage with it, but you could. And you could do some neat things with it. Having something optional removed that a lot of people liked just seems like a poor decision. This is a good video. I liked it. Now laugh at my joke comment.

With all the PPs you talk about, it's time to get out of the closet.

They are not altering Black Mage; that’s the prized job of that parasite, Yoshi-P.

I fuckin loved the sfx, vfx, of both HF2 and HB2 ever since the endwalker job showcase trailer. What they did, lobotomizing my boys, is a travesty.

And just when I got used to overwriting Firestarter haha

Wierd question: before you get Despair, where you often end fire phases with 1200 mp, is swiftcasted Flare ever a gain on single-target to "not waste any mana?" Or is it always higher damage to just switch to ice, because then you get back to fire faster, and therefore have more fire phases in a fight? Or maybe neither of these are accurate?

Subscribed because catboy. And also because your voice is easy to my ears. Keep talking (tho I don't understand shit :D)!

i think literally the only thing i want left is letting you cast flare star early if you need to at a potency deficit, or having its stacks persist through swapping to ice, so we can start doing nonstandard stuff again

Kit, my goat, BLm is slept on right now, i love it so much plz take my sub

Im sad bout its PvP changes tho, my 2y arc of terrorizing people in FL ended that day

I tried low sps BLM because of the changes to Despair, and while it feels a bit better than it did before.... bro I cannot get used to not swimming in SPS. I changed it so i could play other casters mostly optimally, but atp its hampering the feels i got when playing machine gun. So probably reverting to sps roids 😅

This video activated 30 seconds of my Thunderhead buff and increased the damage of my Fire-based spells by 80%. Thank you, Kit.

The alliance music is a little loud during the later half of the video in comparison to your voice. Otherwise nice analysis.