What is with the doom and gloom about Black Mage?

[causality]

This is the only job in the game that benefits greatly from planned resource/cooldown management so of course it will struggle when blind progging through new content but for solved, relevant content like savages it is currently #1 and since you actually need to clear M4S to even play FRU, savages are still a good metric for job performance rather than something less than 1% of the community is currently participating in.

[Ultimate Pheer]

I mean, sure, you could be #1 in damage by maximizing every opening and cast, or you can be #2 in damage by playing the easy class that only vaguely needs to plan out its casts because it has such an overstacked toolkit and inflated potencies.

It's not that BLM doesn't have damage. It's that PCT is keeping up with it with way, way less effort.

What would fix it? Lower potencies, probably, but other than that I dunno. I can find problems, just don't ask me to fix 'em.

[Raansu]

PCT has raid support and good burst while being easier to play. There's no reason to play BLM right now.

[xyz]

Give BLM a rez and make black mage great again.

[Raansu]

That's a horrible idea. PCT just needs to have its damage lowered or they need to take away its raid buffs.

[Daniel]

“Look at me, I’m playing the hard (read:garbage) class in a video game” got old. Most people here are actually out of high school.

[Raansu]

Originally posted by Daniel:

“Look at me, I’m playing the hard (read:garbage) class in a video game” got old. Most people here are actually out of high school.

BLM is a ton of fun and is a relatively high skill ceiling job. I think its fair that something that's difficult to play well should be rewarded with better dps numbers.

[Катюша]

Black Mage, despite being absolutely gutted, is still the Job that requires the most skill and thus is the most fun for me currently.

Pictomancer was a nice distraction at the start of the expansion, but as with all recent new Jobs, it is boring and uninspired. That it has such high Potencies is just dumb, and most definitely warrants getting nerfed.

[causality]

Originally posted by Daniel:

“Look at me, I’m playing the hard (read:garbage) class in a video game” got old. Most people here are actually out of high school.

Really? This is the lowest effort trolling and gaslighting attempt I've seen in a long time. You are no longer allowed in my thread.

[Phits]

Can I just say that I recently returned after not playing for over 2 years. I was wondering where PCT stood on the popularity chart but didn't know this. I will just say though that I have always hated BLM cause of its mechanics. It always felt overly complicated for no real reason. They should still be balanced and brought up rather then anything get nerfed.

[Raansu]

BLM isn't overly complicated. Its mechanics are actually insanely simplistic. It just takes planning and memorization for pre-positioning/setting up triple casts to play them because losing your buff due to having to move and avoid a mechanic is a massive dps loss.