About Enochian and Blackmage stuff

Okay i finally read through all this 15 Pages and now i unleash my wall of text, hope it is readable.
Also if i got any Facts wrong or something like this, please correct me.


First of a bit about "Me and the Blackmage":
I'm playing the Blm since 2.5 Changed from Bard around that time.
I changed because Bard was "too boring" for me and i like the way of optimising the Blackmages DPS with good movement/holding on to procs and stuff like that.

Fast forward to now. I love the Enochian an the mechanic behind it.
I did every fight up to A1S as a BLM by now, several times and i never found myself in a situation where i dropped AF/UI or Enochian that was not duo to my own fault.
Even tho i need to admit that Neverreaper is "shit" and if RNGesus really hates you and you get "stunlocked" by the tornados you will lose it duo to mechanics. I guess the same goes for Bis Ex in the second phase.

I always found a way to walk around certain mechanics and after about 4h of A1S i am Nearly able to never let my Enochian drop. Still struggling with the adds and uptime of AF/UI and Enochian.



I read several times that people don't have fun with the new rotation and they prefer the 2.x one. Aslong you don't want to beat Alexander savage you can simply use the 2.x rotation with the new buffs (Using enochian as a simple CD like Raging Strikes).

I did with my ilvl 188 blm (everything except 1 ring and Chest ilvl190) and pulled about 970 dps (i guess 1000 is possible, i choked a bit) at the dummy (also i didn't refresh enochian with blizz IV waht would not be to much of a trouble).
This Should be enough for the content outside of Savage. (Im unsure about Rav Ex tho).
If you still want to go on about how less fun BLM is or how bad it is, consider a Class change. I heard bowmages/Machinist are kinda like the 2.x BLM.

The other thing i read often was the DPS a BLM can output compared to Meele.
As far as i remember it always was that meele dps have a higher DPS then the caster (ranged).
Ranged have the advantage from being able to attack from about anywhere and don't having a positional.

You actually should compare the Blackmage to the other available Magic DPS role, the Summoner.
The Blackmage is harder to play, and also being punished harder for mistakes.
But therefore Blackmages put out a higher (single target) DPS then the Summoner.



Also yes, Blackmage has gotten way harder and in "perfect" execution it is on a difficulty level with a meele now.
In 2.x Meele was harder then the Blackmage, atleast thats how it was for me.
Now the meele difficulty has increased a bit. The Blackmage difficulty alot, but dou Meele being harder then Blackmage before they are on about the same difficulty level.



I would be really dissapointed if they would do changes to the Enochian/Fire IV/Blizz IV i really enjoy it the way it is.

But what SE actually could would be something similiar they did to the Dragoon and the positionals. (Talking about the lowered dps loss if executed wrong.)
(I also didn't put much effort into the numbers it was more of a Brainstorming thing)

Option 1: Make Fire IV castable outside of enochian (with a lowered potency, i'd say around 200) and when Enochian is active it is the usual 280. (Just Fire IV not Blizz IV).

Option 2: When "canceling" a Fire IV Cast you still do damage but with a lower potency (something aorund 150 or 200 or so). Making the movement less punishable.
But i don't know if this could work given how FFXIV works.

But i would not prefer any changes. I like it a lot how it is right now.



And i also think the whole "git gud" thing is totaly viable. The Class works fine. The Mechanics works fine, proven by several players.
I don't like to go up to someone and just say "get good" it implies that they are (currently) bad.

Rather tell people that for a high DPS amount they need to put (alot of) work into the class the rotation and stuff. This goes for every dps not just the BLM. (This also does not implie that people are bad just that they didn't put in as much effort as others)

"Relevant": http://i.imgur.com/0Lceauv.jpg

Disclaimer: Just to clarify, no i don't think of myself superior to anyone i know there are many better player then me. If anything in this post made you think that, i apologies for putting it wrong.

Thanks for reading.