@@SH1NK1R01 that's pretty cool, I only started in shadowbringers so never knew

Thank you! I wish I did it earlier for casters and the like. It's easier to see it laid out than just explain what all the abilities do. It also would have been easier to show if all my classes were lv100, but that's a bit unrealistic 😂

As an adage; I didn't even play non-standard. This has completely killed this job even in it's standard format.

Have they ever reverted the changes to a class from negative responses to it? I've only played since the end of shadowbringers, but for all the changes I saw people complaining about, I don't recall anything ever being reverted. It's a shame, I was super excited to play blm for this tier and now I'm questioning it, the small optimisations from sharpcast thunder and despair being cut. And Ley lines/polyglot becoming easier as well. I'll still give it a good try at a later date, but after all I've heard I'm not too hopeful. I always thought blm was a class that was safe from big changes 🙁

​@@dovakingbling I can still see ways it can be saved and redeemed. Given back what what taken while keeping the change they want to see. They could just make the server tick on BLM UI 1-3 just give 2500, 5000 and 10,000MP per "tick" or 3 seconds. Bringing back Paradox in Ice can allow anyone, provided they didn't skip out on casting Blizzard IV their full amount of MP. Having Despair make Flare Star instant cast and making Despair giving a buff equal in potency to the amount of Fire IV's casted, that way they can "nerf" specific off-standard rotations that end fire phase early for a technical DPS up by simply reducing the extra potency given by each individual Fire IV. Removing Sharpcast was entirely unnecessary but if they REFUSE to back down on the change entirely they need to make potency adjustments or a special trait for Thunderhead that just makes it... not shit compared to old Thunder III and Sharpcast. Truthfully the old system was not complicated and anyone who neglected buffs simply failed to understand RNG manipulation and also specific timing of that manipulation was Sharpcasts entire gimmick. Truthfully I have maybe one better solution that being Thunder III being restored and when cast, it GIVES High Thunder which just does the same "burst" of damage Thunder III did while re-applying the DOT. Truthfully, we need major and concise criticism on the job by the very limited people who love it. It isn't limited because it's hard but because the job is designed willingly about restrictions and finding ways to elevate them. Mobility is not an issue for a vast majority of classes, BLM is one of the few that sacrifices mobility for it's class identity. You can SEE a good Black Mage in the wild because of HOW they create movement opportunities when they need it, exactly as they need it. Unfortunately major voices in the XIV community, bar Eku Splosion, don't see how detrimental the changes are to the job are and even then his (Eku Splosions) criticisms are agreed upon broadly (by people who understands and love the job) or celebrated by bad faith community members celebrating the "death" of the "special treatment" that BLM had, that "special treatment" being great job and class fantasy design - is sad. If we have people celebrating over the loss of a job, I don't want to play with these people. If they don't change it, we just have to let them know we are willing to leave until they make compromise. The fact DRG and AST were supposed to get reworks sickens me this expansion by how little they've truly changed while BLM was so casually deconstructed without fanfare. It feels malicious, atleast to me. Most of the changes this expansion feel either Reductive (removes features) or retroactive (not actually a feature you gain going from LVL90-100)

@@puppachino You have a very well laid out argument. The changes you would make to the class not only seem simple to do but a lot more fun than what they did. Is there any way for square enix to actually know that the blackmage enjoyers do not like the changes though? I didn't know about the distain for it until I made the video, but I tried to avoid most things ffxiv related since dawntrail came out. I also agree that a lot of the changes feel reductive, like, despite making the buff window 20s universally, dark knight and gunbreaker both lost the damage on their gap closer, because it was too "busy" or something. Dragoon losing dragon sight and spineshatter dive, blackmages losing sharpcast. These were like my most played classes in their respective roles as well

@@dovakingbling I've written on forums. It's all I can do.

Damn, yeah, Kunai's Bane being aoe makes the aoe Huton make more sense as well, very useful. Thank you!

Words just all blend together after a while. It do be a struggle 🥲

lol, I've been enjoying it

I am a monk main since stormblood and its never been more fun than in dawntrail

I disagree, it's very more funny now, even more on 100. I only wait we don't lost the fun bkkick rotation on 7.01

in my opinion they gutted the ability to free play Monk? idk how to describe it but it used to feel very loose. now it's rigid. get a ball, spend a ball.

@@0xx0CoffeeFoam0xx0x MNK was very rigid to begin with, all it did was take away the illusion of freedom, which isn’t a bad thing, plus no more dot to upkeep, or a dmg buff. If anything it’s better now because of it.

Thank you for pointing this out, I'll see if I can do anything to fix it without removing the video 👍 KZbin's editing function is extremely limited, so best I could do is blur it 😔

@@dovakingbling Keep at it sir. You're doing great. Been watching a few of your vids. Take some time and realize the content is hot but still relevant and have a friend be a 'spot' editor for you until you hit it big. Good luck!

@FirestormHF yeah, all the aoe potenties for black mage were reduced for some reason. I guess it must of been too op? but these drops seem harsh

Thank you :)

@@GarnetDust24 oh yeah, definitely. Shaprcast will stay with me as well

@@dovakingbling I replaced it with flare star but it’s staying 😭

seems like most picto mains are former blm and hardcore smn (before it got dumbed down rework).

Was BLM really gutted? Feels like the dps still should be fine no?

100%

Aw damn, it totally does. My bad 👍

Unfortunately I never got to experience much of the earlier classes. I started playing around shadowbringers, but I never fully levelled and learned classes before endwalker came out, so I pretty much only know endwalker classes. It would have been cool to play it

LOL

Ah shoot, I did totally miss that one, yeah. Aoe dot is pretty cool as well. And yeah, I agree. With picto and viper (Kinda) have one button combos that chain between 3 different attacks. It would be nice to see it on healers. Although it wouldn't change anything mechanically, it would be more interesting visually.

@@dovakingbling they made it clear they won’t change healers back to the a realm/heaves days so might as well not get bored of the same attack spell for 4+ years now. Tanks and healers just feel so boring since they made them so easy. Rather have more visual flair than nothing at all but that’s just me.

I really hope Pictomancer is just a testing ground for how mages and healers should play given that it seems to be the obvious mage choice.

I will counter that pressing the same 3 buttons over and over is not an improvement over pressing a single button over and over. Just ask anyone who plays a job with a 1-2-3 combo how much they enjoy doing that combo. I'm gonna guess they'll say "What are you talking about? That's just filler until I can get to the actual DPS part of my rotation."

@@NekoDalian if you are saying pressing same button for combo or just one is the same then yes it is the same. as a tank and healer main then yes there is no difference especially after playing vpr as my new main and trying picto out. rather have less buttons for the filler and more cool buttons for my burst or even small burst windows. really like the 30 sec small burst gunbreaker has. love that every 30 seconds I am gonna be able to do an ability and a 3 part combo with more ogcd to press. think 1 min of boring is bad and 2 min of boring is even worse(aka healers especially with there 2 min follow up, besides sge of course which at least we get every 1 min lol). I think they need to make more things for us to do as a tank or healer if they arent gonna change anything with combat flow. I want us to have to make dps sacrifices to do tank or healer stuff because that is our role.

I can tell you already that the masses will not be happy with these changes, a lot of them were hoping for entire healer overhauls while these changes are minimal at best. It also emphasizes the homogeny between all the classes, with all of them receiving essentially the same vein of upgrades every single level. While a lot of people were complaining in endwalker that classes were losing their unique identity, I believe that argument will be stronger than ever now. Also, the only reason the dps queues are so long is because everyone and their grandmother is levelling viper and pictomancer, it's nothing to do with a healer strike. Tank queues are instant as well for this very reason

The only reason DPS queues are so bad are because the two newest jobs, picto and viper, are both DPS

@@chronix7946 The new gap closer doesn't come close to how good plunge felt. It's a sad day for all dark knights

@@dovakingbling for real, I'd take plunge animation just with no damage over the shadow slide any day

Thank you for the criticism, I agree with you. The video didn't flow as well as I wanted it to since I was hoping to get it out for all classes on release day. My expectations were far too much with the amount of time I had and I lost quality due to it. I'll work for longer for the future ones so they're more enjoyable and energetic :D

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