Man I really wish I was smart enough to understand any of this numbers talk… all I know is with how much my despairs have been lost cause of the timer running out during the cast I started making it a habit of swift casting it any time it was up owo
@@NimootYeah. Either transposing off Swift/triplecast Flare Star or High Thunder 2. Still that’s crazy to see that even with clipping, it’s still stronger than Bliz
@@Sammysapphirait kind of was, especially when you consider most people werent doing nonstandard aoe. Using an instant filler or even drifting your gcd to transpose flare was already around 10% higher pps than actually casting fire 2 before they buffed flare hardcasting
I'm not crazy! I thought it was just my lack of coffee lol, Metal was louder than you, I heard you but my morning brain with no coffee was spinning at how loud the music was and trying to hear you lol
@Soulsnatcher89 Yeah, my bad... I felt bad for how long this video has taken by now, so the audio was rather rushed. From forgetting to normalize it to adjusting the BGM better. I'll keep an ear for it better next time!
@@KitVT Ah it's all good, easy mistake to make, so many videos where the music is entirely overpowering a voice that can't be heard at all, some where voices are way too loud, I just thought it was me lol
@@ImNotMe1337 Until Broil gets upgraded to Broil 2, it's a gain on 1 if you can stand in melee and slap the boss at the same time. Broil 1 and Art of War 1 have the same potency, and AoW doesn't interrupt your melee swing timer.
My first reaction to black mage was : "Wait why are these potencys so low?! How is thia allowed?!" And then i remembered that there are a bijillion damage buffs involved and jizzed at the vision of beeg damage numbers
wrt Flare, I think the reason they designed back for Flare spam was because in Endwalker, if you were doing an Expert Roulette with a notably good party, trash mobs would often be dead before you even got to Flare. Mind you I don't play BLM outside of Roulettes but it felt at such a disadvantage compared to jobs that could be AoEing the mobs as they're being pulled to the wall. I guess SE decided that BLM's AoE needed to come online faster than it did in EW and that functionally removing HF2 and HB2 was the only way to do it.
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
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
If you looked at expansion changes you can really see that there are different philosophies on how classes should play. Flare being the bread and butter of BLM aoe is one of these. In fact I feel ppl have forgotten how in ShB we had cold flare rotation and never touched fire 2
@nelieltu9730 my personal theory is that during the development of later EW, DT and FF16, Yoshi had no time to play the game as BLM, so they had no idea whst to do with it for the new expansion.
@@luxsignifer6996 They should start coming up with general changes to all classes. Adding 1-2 new skills with some minor changes or charges added to old skills does not make a class more fun. Seriously, if they add a 4th poly stack next expansions, its getting ridiculous.
i knew you were better off casting flare twice at 100 because of flare star but i didn't know that was true from *the moment you unlock flare*. i felt myself getting brain damage the further the aoe explanation went on that shit is so cursed 😭
For certain rotations being strong in one patch but weaker in the other even though F3 and P not being touched might be related to Enochian changes. The bonuses for F3 went from +139.4% to +137.6; about 1.2% decrease while the bonuses for P went from +33% to +32% less then 1% decrease. I don't play BLM and probably did some math wrong, but I believe this might be the cause of it.
AF3 Proc with Manafont is a gain only so long as it doesn't misalign your abilities - which it will on several encounters or phases - use with care! good video o7
@Cloudo4 misalignment comes in a few forms: not having movement when you need it or missing out on total fire 4 casts because you decided to fit in fire 3 procs unnecessarily over the course of a fight. In ultimate, it gets a bit more involved as you are early or late transposition/ double transposition to prepare reopener and fire 3 sometimes fits in that timing and sometimes does not. E.g. end of phase 1 fru you use your last 2 minute fire 3 proc but skip one for reopener on phase 2 depending on kill time.
@@blackmagecompendium In FRU it really depends on kill speed especially in P1. In weaker groups I have to burn all my Xenos while in good groups I just transpose to ice phase and wait for Shiva. Otherwise yeah, its always a movement thing. But how FF14 is designed, you more or less know when you have to move. For FRU its a non-issue for the first 3 phases at least. Didnt progress further yet.
The only use for Bliz 1 at this point is the GIRL (Geiji Ice Recovery Line). Basically if you made a mistake and are about to run out of Astral Fire at a bad time, you could transpose > Paradox > Bliz 1 > Bliz 4 and get back into Astral Fire with minimal loss. But… man. Bliz 1 deserves better than what it is right now.
@@ThisIsntATH-camr GIRL is actually the worst option. It's best to use AF3 F3P to keep up your stance and have an unbuffed F3 later. The next best option is to Despair early and start over. GIRL is more of a loss compared to these 2.
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.
As always, great detailed video! Despite the doompost, I think the true BLM players do realize how the .1 changes were an overall buff. -1% was dumb, though, especially with how terribly overpowered THAT ONE JOB is right now... Here's hoping for .2 adjustments to fix things! COPIUM One thing to note, though, while PPS is a good metric to judge the overall damage for sustained dps jobs like Black Mage, it sadly falls a bit short when the meta is so reliant on 2min buff windows. This is why some openers you'll see online seem "worse" PPS-wise while being actually stronger because they cater to those windows better. In the end it's just little minmax tryhard changes and comfort/ease of play based on Spell Speed is more important IMO, but I think it's worth mentioning that. I still love how BLM always rewards you for knowing your stuff, your rotation, your recovery options and of course, the fight's timeline. It is so good when you learn enough to optimize LL placement and saving up resources for movement and whatnot, that I think no other jobs gives just that type of engagement. It will always be my "feel good" job to test out my knowledge after I learn an encounter and I hope that never changes.
Yeah, not defending the 1% Enochian nerf, just doing my usual "Hey, let's be positive, it ain't that bad". PCT being overtuned is still a problem, however and no amount of buffs can fix it. FRU really showed that problem, though that wasn't the focus.
@@KitVT yeahh I saw someone mention that the devs basically seem to completely ignore PCT right now. If it wasn't a thing, BLM would be in a great spot and the 1% balancing makes sense. It's funny because numbers aside, Picto is a good job design and it caters to buffs, downtime and whatnot, especially for Ultimate. This means that even if it was in the proper spot dps-wise or at least closer to it, people would still like to play it. Heck, even PCT mains are calling for the nerf, it's just unfair right now. Since Chaotic is mostly just a gearing alternative they probably won't bother doing more serious balancing changes, so... March it is!
I levelled blm to 72 recently, and it’s really interesting and unique to play compared to the other casters/healers I’ve played, stopped at 72, maybe I should keep levelling it hmm
Black Mage is fun. A bit steeper of a learning curve than some other jobs, but I think we can all agree making enemies straight up explode is a good time 🎉
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.
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
The dude in charge of balacing mages have no idea what he is doing Rdm being lower on dmg than summoner whole endwalker expac is baffling and picto being so high right now (especialy on FRU) is ridiculous Blm should be the highest dps at all time because of the technicity of the job, yet they fuck up everytime
BLM is a tough thing to balance... All it takes is one little change like allowing us to keep Flare Star charges in Ice ... and suddenly Non-standard BLM is back in a new weird way... banking a Flare Star to 'start' a buff window with one and being able to shoot 2 off per buff window would be disgusting...
but if BLM does the most damage of the casters we are back to when all the casters were malding in Endwalker.....The truth is that it's not that simple to balance this thing and a well a job giving a dps buff should probably outgun a selfish dps when paired with good blasters. Otherwise why even bringing it? That said perhaps if SE wants to keep how PCT is played they might decide to nerf starry sky dmg bonus from 5% to say........2%
@@neobahumuth6smn and rdm were malding because they're in res tax jail, not because endwalker BLM after mastering a 200 page manuals worth of information was able to do 1% more dps than samurai with literal perfect play
@@TheArnoldification I think you forgot what happened when 6.4 patch notes dropped....Sometimes I would love to have this selective memory ppl have. Edit: and good lord you ppl are malding over Picto while it actually has not that great party utility, imagine what would you do if SMN and RDM did above BLM dmg dear lord if gamers are trash
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?
@@soulfire5256 Yes, Swiftcasted Flare is your pre-Lv72 single-target finisher. This has been the way since ARR; I do it in UCoB too. Despair and Xenoglossy were created in ShB as proper single-target versions for Flare and Foul
I've read that ever since Flare got it's cast time reduced to 3 seconds, it's worth using it as a finisher until you get Fire 4 even when hardcasted, since Flare now has slightly more PPS than Fire 1.
I put it in practice in UCoB and mathed it out, do not hardcast it. It's a PPS loss; still only Swiftcast it, skip it otherwise. Edit: Idk why I completely skipped over the part where you said "UNTIL YOU GET FIRE 4". Yes, until Fire 4 (50 - 59), hardcasted Flare is a good finisher.
By Menphina's lamentorums...I knew Fira/High Fira got nerfed into the ground for no godsdamn reason, but I hadn't realized it was better to just spam Flare. Yoshi, what the hells, man!?
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 😅
@@karasutsuki1733 Oh, I haven't tried PvP yet. I wanted to make a section about it, but I thought that this video was overdue (and getting too long anyway)
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
A MAN CHOOSES!!! A SLAVE! OBEEEEYS!!!! (yes, I'm aware of the problem, but Black Mage shouldn't get shit for the devs ignoring how much of a problem they designed PCT into)
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
The 1% nerf in the same patch that Pictomancer was *not* nerfed is such an insult, I genuinely laughed when I saw it. I won't be happy until Pictomanceris giga-nerfed and fundamentally changed. In no scenario should the easier job with 2-3 raid utility buttons be above the more difficult job with no utility. -Signed, a doomer BLM.
they have 1 raid utility. A shield. Thats it. A raid buff isn't 'utility', they are dps. And it's unreliable dps that requires team coordination and buff alignment to maximize - raw potency that BLM has is the easier of the two. BLM has so many more instant casts and movement options compared to BLM. BLM rotation is brain dead and has like 1/4 the button presses of PCT rotation. All this PCT hating and making BLM out to be this far more difficult class (it's not) is insane. Especially after this recent patch that has given BLM an entire 2 minute instant cast rotation that is arguably a DPS gain from their previous rotation.
@@SNOZ562i dont get how picto is harder i can literally play the class half asleep and do better than black mage its a joke. its movement is so simple because of its combos cast time. it needed adjustments a half year ago
Also I noticed you were AoE'ing @ 8:59? ... Don't they NOT allow AoE'ing on those targets because if they did, they'd be SHREDDED TO BITS? EDIT: I've dug through some FFLOGS things... and you don't do any additional damage if you do AoE's during the Arkangel Fight... So I'm not sure why you were doin' it in there?
They do allow AoEing. I'm not sure where you heard that. You're forced to fight the first 3 one-on-one. The others are just invulnerable to your attacks. They all drop it by the end of that first phase though. And I do additional damage. I wouldn't be doing ~33k DPS on that fight with just AoEs and at iLvl 720. I parsed 99 in that fight, if you wanna mention logs.
@@KitVT It does look like you're in the top 100 for that fight yes... Just you're 33,271 vs 37,588 for the #1 spot ... so I'm not 100% sold on the AoE ... I'll have to test it for myself to see if it makes a difference... Be that as it may, everything else in the vid I've been doing as I've mained BLM since 2.0, I refuse to play PCT as it feels bad to just turn brain off... BLM 4 Life.
@Nimoot I don't have a set static for on-content. My static is doing every raid at min iLvl, instead. We're currently on UCoB after a year of doing all ARR, HW, and other StB content. PF gives me a headache and wastes my time so I don't wish to progress without a static. I had a static during Eden (Savage) and Pandaemonium (Savage). I PFed all of Omega (Savage) back in the day. Never again.
@@KitVT AH I see the 37k BLM just like you did at 3:45 stopped using Fire IV and swapped to Flare.... I see I see .... it took me digging through several layers of things... 🙂 EDIT: Gonna go try to get my last piece for my Ark Angel set and test this out now ... 🙂Thank you for being patient with me.
Yea. High Fire gives zero sense now. Im not playing at time so idk hows 7.1, but in 7.0...like whats the point? At least in EW casting fire II had reason for the flare buff, but high fire II? And that even got nerfed because...blm was too strong in AoE or something? Its picto job now to do mass aoe with its instacast hammer, so blm had to go out of way? So many questions. Blm became so twisted job its not fun anymore.
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.
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Wait a minute this whole time black mage feeling super shitty in dungeons was because it _was_ shitty in dungeons?!
Man I really wish I was smart enough to understand any of this numbers talk… all I know is with how much my despairs have been lost cause of the timer running out during the cast I started making it a habit of swift casting it any time it was up owo
I do Flare>Flare>Flarestar>INSTANT CAST SPELL>Transpose>Freeze>INSTANT CAST SPELL>Transpose>Repeat for AoE's... it actually feels good.
It wasn't though.
@@NimootYeah. Either transposing off Swift/triplecast Flare Star or High Thunder 2. Still that’s crazy to see that even with clipping, it’s still stronger than Bliz
@@Sammysapphirait kind of was, especially when you consider most people werent doing nonstandard aoe. Using an instant filler or even drifting your gcd to transpose flare was already around 10% higher pps than actually casting fire 2 before they buffed flare hardcasting
This video activated 30 seconds of my Thunderhead buff and increased the damage of my Fire-based spells by 80%. Thank you, Kit.
Yeah, I definitely should lower the BGM more. Didn't seem as loud in Vegas. Whoops.
What?
I'm not crazy! I thought it was just my lack of coffee lol, Metal was louder than you, I heard you but my morning brain with no coffee was spinning at how loud the music was and trying to hear you lol
@Soulsnatcher89 Yeah, my bad...
I felt bad for how long this video has taken by now, so the audio was rather rushed. From forgetting to normalize it to adjusting the BGM better.
I'll keep an ear for it better next time!
@@KitVT Ah it's all good, easy mistake to make, so many videos where the music is entirely overpowering a voice that can't be heard at all, some where voices are way too loud, I just thought it was me lol
@Soulsnatcher89 It also doesn't help that Metal is my favorite raid theme, so I got too lost in the music LOL
Art of War is a gain on 2
🔫 Always has been
@@ImNotMe1337 Until Broil gets upgraded to Broil 2, it's a gain on 1 if you can stand in melee and slap the boss at the same time. Broil 1 and Art of War 1 have the same potency, and AoW doesn't interrupt your melee swing timer.
@@jackyoung1208he doin the astronaut meme shootin the other astronaut in the back LOL
My first reaction to black mage was : "Wait why are these potencys so low?! How is thia allowed?!"
And then i remembered that there are a bijillion damage buffs involved and jizzed at the vision of beeg damage numbers
wrt Flare, I think the reason they designed back for Flare spam was because in Endwalker, if you were doing an Expert Roulette with a notably good party, trash mobs would often be dead before you even got to Flare. Mind you I don't play BLM outside of Roulettes but it felt at such a disadvantage compared to jobs that could be AoEing the mobs as they're being pulled to the wall. I guess SE decided that BLM's AoE needed to come online faster than it did in EW and that functionally removing HF2 and HB2 was the only way to do it.
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
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
If you looked at expansion changes you can really see that there are different philosophies on how classes should play. Flare being the bread and butter of BLM aoe is one of these. In fact I feel ppl have forgotten how in ShB we had cold flare rotation and never touched fire 2
imagine having to do any of this for PCT... someone in SE really had it against BLM this exp
Bet Yoshi P is no longer a BLM main lol.
@nelieltu9730 my personal theory is that during the development of later EW, DT and FF16, Yoshi had no time to play the game as BLM, so they had no idea whst to do with it for the new expansion.
His team made BLM worse to get back at Yoshi P for not paying enough attention to them
@@luxsignifer6996 They should start coming up with general changes to all classes. Adding 1-2 new skills with some minor changes or charges added to old skills does not make a class more fun. Seriously, if they add a 4th poly stack next expansions, its getting ridiculous.
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
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!
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i knew you were better off casting flare twice at 100 because of flare star but i didn't know that was true from *the moment you unlock flare*. i felt myself getting brain damage the further the aoe explanation went on that shit is so cursed 😭
A good spot if you dont play 90+ ultimates. It gets outgunned by picto by about 15% rdps/cdps. Only mch and smn deal less damage.
For certain rotations being strong in one patch but weaker in the other even though F3 and P not being touched might be related to Enochian changes. The bonuses for F3 went from +139.4% to +137.6; about 1.2% decrease while the bonuses for P went from +33% to +32% less then 1% decrease. I don't play BLM and probably did some math wrong, but I believe this might be the cause of it.
AF3 Proc with Manafont is a gain only so long as it doesn't misalign your abilities - which it will on several encounters or phases - use with care!
good video o7
What is there to misalign on BLM? Thunder because it runs out and you cant refresh it until next ice phase?
@Cloudo4 misalignment comes in a few forms: not having movement when you need it or missing out on total fire 4 casts because you decided to fit in fire 3 procs unnecessarily over the course of a fight. In ultimate, it gets a bit more involved as you are early or late transposition/ double transposition to prepare reopener and fire 3 sometimes fits in that timing and sometimes does not. E.g. end of phase 1 fru you use your last 2 minute fire 3 proc but skip one for reopener on phase 2 depending on kill time.
@@blackmagecompendium In FRU it really depends on kill speed especially in P1. In weaker groups I have to burn all my Xenos while in good groups I just transpose to ice phase and wait for Shiva. Otherwise yeah, its always a movement thing. But how FF14 is designed, you more or less know when you have to move. For FRU its a non-issue for the first 3 phases at least. Didnt progress further yet.
The only use for Bliz 1 at this point is the GIRL (Geiji Ice Recovery Line). Basically if you made a mistake and are about to run out of Astral Fire at a bad time, you could transpose > Paradox > Bliz 1 > Bliz 4 and get back into Astral Fire with minimal loss. But… man. Bliz 1 deserves better than what it is right now.
@@ThisIsntATH-camr GIRL is actually the worst option.
It's best to use AF3 F3P to keep up your stance and have an unbuffed F3 later. The next best option is to Despair early and start over. GIRL is more of a loss compared to these 2.
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.
As always, great detailed video! Despite the doompost, I think the true BLM players do realize how the .1 changes were an overall buff. -1% was dumb, though, especially with how terribly overpowered THAT ONE JOB is right now... Here's hoping for .2 adjustments to fix things! COPIUM
One thing to note, though, while PPS is a good metric to judge the overall damage for sustained dps jobs like Black Mage, it sadly falls a bit short when the meta is so reliant on 2min buff windows. This is why some openers you'll see online seem "worse" PPS-wise while being actually stronger because they cater to those windows better.
In the end it's just little minmax tryhard changes and comfort/ease of play based on Spell Speed is more important IMO, but I think it's worth mentioning that.
I still love how BLM always rewards you for knowing your stuff, your rotation, your recovery options and of course, the fight's timeline. It is so good when you learn enough to optimize LL placement and saving up resources for movement and whatnot, that I think no other jobs gives just that type of engagement.
It will always be my "feel good" job to test out my knowledge after I learn an encounter and I hope that never changes.
Yeah, not defending the 1% Enochian nerf, just doing my usual "Hey, let's be positive, it ain't that bad". PCT being overtuned is still a problem, however and no amount of buffs can fix it. FRU really showed that problem, though that wasn't the focus.
@@KitVT yeahh I saw someone mention that the devs basically seem to completely ignore PCT right now. If it wasn't a thing, BLM would be in a great spot and the 1% balancing makes sense.
It's funny because numbers aside, Picto is a good job design and it caters to buffs, downtime and whatnot, especially for Ultimate. This means that even if it was in the proper spot dps-wise or at least closer to it, people would still like to play it. Heck, even PCT mains are calling for the nerf, it's just unfair right now.
Since Chaotic is mostly just a gearing alternative they probably won't bother doing more serious balancing changes, so... March it is!
i miss tripple cast - despair - manafront - F4 - despair from endwalker at the end if a fire phase
Its just much better now.
I levelled blm to 72 recently, and it’s really interesting and unique to play compared to the other casters/healers I’ve played, stopped at 72, maybe I should keep levelling it hmm
Black Mage is fun. A bit steeper of a learning curve than some other jobs, but I think we can all agree making enemies straight up explode is a good time 🎉
BLM feels much better once it gets paradox at 90+ so if you're enjoying it I rec9mmend you stick with it
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.
Not losing the stacks for Flare Star on stance change would already be a help regarding non-standard. Then just add a 100% crit/dh on it and its fine.
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
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.
The dude in charge of balacing mages have no idea what he is doing
Rdm being lower on dmg than summoner whole endwalker expac is baffling and picto being so high right now (especialy on FRU) is ridiculous
Blm should be the highest dps at all time because of the technicity of the job, yet they fuck up everytime
BLM is a tough thing to balance... All it takes is one little change like allowing us to keep Flare Star charges in Ice ... and suddenly Non-standard BLM is back in a new weird way... banking a Flare Star to 'start' a buff window with one and being able to shoot 2 off per buff window would be disgusting...
@@Nimootyou can do this already and it still has bad 2 min burst
but if BLM does the most damage of the casters we are back to when all the casters were malding in Endwalker.....The truth is that it's not that simple to balance this thing and a well a job giving a dps buff should probably outgun a selfish dps when paired with good blasters. Otherwise why even bringing it? That said perhaps if SE wants to keep how PCT is played they might decide to nerf starry sky dmg bonus from 5% to say........2%
@@neobahumuth6smn and rdm were malding because they're in res tax jail, not because endwalker BLM after mastering a 200 page manuals worth of information was able to do 1% more dps than samurai with literal perfect play
@@TheArnoldification I think you forgot what happened when 6.4 patch notes dropped....Sometimes I would love to have this selective memory ppl have.
Edit: and good lord you ppl are malding over Picto while it actually has not that great party utility, imagine what would you do if SMN and RDM did above BLM dmg dear lord if gamers are trash
And just when I got used to overwriting Firestarter haha
I am so sorry, I will never live this down...
@ if it’s any consolation, none of us could have predicted an enochian nerf plus a despair buff would encourage anything but cycling AF faster
The alliance music is a little loud during the later half of the video in comparison to your voice. Otherwise nice analysis.
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?
@@soulfire5256 Yes, Swiftcasted Flare is your pre-Lv72 single-target finisher. This has been the way since ARR; I do it in UCoB too.
Despair and Xenoglossy were created in ShB as proper single-target versions for Flare and Foul
I've read that ever since Flare got it's cast time reduced to 3 seconds, it's worth using it as a finisher until you get Fire 4 even when hardcasted, since Flare now has slightly more PPS than Fire 1.
I put it in practice in UCoB and mathed it out, do not hardcast it. It's a PPS loss; still only Swiftcast it, skip it otherwise.
Edit: Idk why I completely skipped over the part where you said "UNTIL YOU GET FIRE 4". Yes, until Fire 4 (50 - 59), hardcasted Flare is a good finisher.
Nice talk, always fun to hear more in depth numbers on BLM. The music, especially around the Ark Angel background footage, is a bit too loud tho.
By Menphina's lamentorums...I knew Fira/High Fira got nerfed into the ground for no godsdamn reason, but I hadn't realized it was better to just spam Flare. Yoshi, what the hells, man!?
never been arounf ShB?
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 😅
Machine gun is way too overexaggerated. Even with full spell speed its still slower than no sps with Ley Lines. I rather enjoy those big crits.
Im sad bout its PvP changes tho, my 2y arc of terrorizing people in FL ended that day
@@karasutsuki1733 Oh, I haven't tried PvP yet. I wanted to make a section about it, but I thought that this video was overdue (and getting too long anyway)
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
@@x_Xith_x A man chooses...
A slave obeys.
@KitVT when doing FRU not having a PCT is such a dmg loss its literally getting locked in PF
A MAN CHOOSES!!!
A SLAVE!
OBEEEEYS!!!!
(yes, I'm aware of the problem, but Black Mage shouldn't get shit for the devs ignoring how much of a problem they designed PCT into)
@@KitVT oh yeah I love the class the Dmg numbers are the only problem. Bring BLM up or PCT down idc which one
@@x_Xith_x I haven't seen game balance this busted since Heavensward. Those were dark times....
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
Kit, my goat, BLm is slept on right now, i love it so much plz take my sub
The 1% nerf in the same patch that Pictomancer was *not* nerfed is such an insult, I genuinely laughed when I saw it. I won't be happy until Pictomanceris giga-nerfed and fundamentally changed. In no scenario should the easier job with 2-3 raid utility buttons be above the more difficult job with no utility. -Signed, a doomer BLM.
Cope and seethe
they have 1 raid utility. A shield. Thats it. A raid buff isn't 'utility', they are dps. And it's unreliable dps that requires team coordination and buff alignment to maximize - raw potency that BLM has is the easier of the two.
BLM has so many more instant casts and movement options compared to BLM. BLM rotation is brain dead and has like 1/4 the button presses of PCT rotation.
All this PCT hating and making BLM out to be this far more difficult class (it's not) is insane. Especially after this recent patch that has given BLM an entire 2 minute instant cast rotation that is arguably a DPS gain from their previous rotation.
It wasn't a nerf though. It overall gained a ton of damage.
@@SNOZ562i dont get how picto is harder i can literally play the class half asleep and do better than black mage its a joke. its movement is so simple because of its combos cast time. it needed adjustments a half year ago
@@SNOZ562 and obv a corridnated 2 minutes helps but uh. you still do great damage simply pressing your buttons
Thanks for the explanation especially with AOE.
Also I noticed you were AoE'ing @ 8:59? ... Don't they NOT allow AoE'ing on those targets because if they did, they'd be SHREDDED TO BITS?
EDIT: I've dug through some FFLOGS things... and you don't do any additional damage if you do AoE's during the Arkangel Fight... So I'm not sure why you were doin' it in there?
They do allow AoEing. I'm not sure where you heard that. You're forced to fight the first 3 one-on-one. The others are just invulnerable to your attacks. They all drop it by the end of that first phase though.
And I do additional damage. I wouldn't be doing ~33k DPS on that fight with just AoEs and at iLvl 720. I parsed 99 in that fight, if you wanna mention logs.
@@KitVT It does look like you're in the top 100 for that fight yes... Just you're 33,271 vs 37,588 for the #1 spot ... so I'm not 100% sold on the AoE ... I'll have to test it for myself to see if it makes a difference...
Be that as it may, everything else in the vid I've been doing as I've mained BLM since 2.0, I refuse to play PCT as it feels bad to just turn brain off... BLM 4 Life.
@@KitVT I'm actually kind of shocked you haven't completed the raid tier tbh if you're this much of a big brained BLM like I am. o_o
@Nimoot I don't have a set static for on-content. My static is doing every raid at min iLvl, instead. We're currently on UCoB after a year of doing all ARR, HW, and other StB content.
PF gives me a headache and wastes my time so I don't wish to progress without a static. I had a static during Eden (Savage) and Pandaemonium (Savage).
I PFed all of Omega (Savage) back in the day.
Never again.
@@KitVT AH I see the 37k BLM just like you did at 3:45 stopped using Fire IV and swapped to Flare.... I see I see .... it took me digging through several layers of things... 🙂
EDIT: Gonna go try to get my last piece for my Ark Angel set and test this out now ... 🙂Thank you for being patient with me.
Yea. High Fire gives zero sense now. Im not playing at time so idk hows 7.1, but in 7.0...like whats the point? At least in EW casting fire II had reason for the flare buff, but high fire II? And that even got nerfed because...blm was too strong in AoE or something? Its picto job now to do mass aoe with its instacast hammer, so blm had to go out of way?
So many questions. Blm became so twisted job its not fun anymore.
so it's becoming non-standard to use F2, I've never really had that button mapped on my controller since DT release
Subscribed because catboy. And also because your voice is easy to my ears. Keep talking (tho I don't understand shit :D)!
Great video! Maybe u wanna tone down a bit on the BGM
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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.
To me it still feel odd to be the only job to be punished for having to move.
And you are just realizing this NOW?
@@KINGOFTHESPARKS755 No, I've just been so busy that I'm actually late with posting this.
@KitVT valid. The changes make it worth it again imo lol