Found a changed missed in your coverage over in r/FFXIVs coverage. Sleep was removed from THM/BLM and put into Caster Role Actions. Didn't even realize it til a good hour or so after watching this video.
This is interesting because Black Mage got more of a rework than I thought as most of these changes actually go back to earlier levels which might make the job more fun to play when synced down.
Technically they’re at the cap now. The only thing I can think of when BLM has a share ability with WHM at lv99. The only different that the job use most abilities at attacking or healing and shielding pop
Holy crap, a lot of coverage goes over 80-90 leveling but this video is so great for understanding how BLM changes when syncing down for roulettes. Aspect Mastery for free at lvl 1? Blizzard 2 isn't a point blank aoe? B3 and F3 are learned at the same time? Finally, doing stuff like Sastasha, Brayflox, or Snowcloak will not be so bone-hurtingly cringe.
Enochian being a trait will MASSIVELY improve boss fights. Losing Enochian to mechanics and having to wait for it to come back is one of the most frustrating things to deal with
If you bank Xeno and procs you should be OK to keep it up, and you can spam Umbral Soul during intermission so it really shouldn't be an issue if you think ahead of time. You can also reactively hit Transpose as the emergency button
@@znarch There are fights where you can't use skills for a prolonged amount of time which leads to you loosing Enochian so not having to activate it again after that phase is pretty nice.
@@fritzbaum7332 yeah it saves you a button press but I believe he is talking about losing enochian before the 30s CD comes back up. Most, if not all extended no-action periods last longer than that so there is no lockout
Most of my ffxiv rage-quit moments have been from dropping enochian right after refreshing it. Eno-trait may make the job a little more small brained but im NOT complaining
Really looking forward to no longer throwing a tiny fire 1 at max level! Tbh I'm going to miss enochian as an action, the animation looked really cool and I loved the feeling of a bunch of silly magical prep happening when it was double weaved.
Tbh enochian as a skill would be fine if it isnt tied to Fire 4 or that it has more charges. As its no longer tied to Fire 4 (and blizzard 4) it isnt a buff that needs to be maintained every 30 seconds. It was more of an annoyance than anything. That buff itself is 5% dmg itself. No big deal. Going from Fire 4 to Fire 1 is bummer. If fire 4 isnt the only skill black mage can spam that does damage it wouldnt be so bad. But it is the only spammable nuke. You dont see any other class being solely dependent on a single skill for dps. Even some classes that have their best dps skills aren't tied up every 30 seconds if a buff wears off and if there is such a skill that they have, it wouldnt nerf their dps from fire 4 (300 potency) to fire 1 (180 potency). A difference of 1.5 to almost 2x dmg reduction. Thats like going from 6k dps to 3.6k dps. Ridiculous.
Same, and as a previous DRG main I miss Life of the Dragon being a skill. It's a good change probably, I've just gotten so used to keeping it up all the time and I kind of liked that about the job. You just get used to it so much it becomes part of the charm. It feels busy in a different way now (at 90), I'm just not used to it yet... and I'm a reaper main now. I'll miss the blue flames around your character and I still have this instincf to press Life of the Dragon before every pull and it never goes away... Maybe I'm weird but somehow having pet peeves with a job makes me almost like them more? Gives it character. BLM keeping Enochian up and maximising the ley lines was very challenging and frustrating, sure, but it also made me want to get better at the job despite not maining it. (My BLM is only at 70, so take my input with a grain of salt. )
@@maomochi6403 i feel like the leveling experience will be significantly improved next expansion, mostly because of the changes to AoE actions and Aspect Mastery being moved to level 1. This will make every dungeon feel a lot less clunky. If you really want to level BLM now go for it, but I expect it will feel a lot better in a few weeks.
I do appreciate them streamlining a lot of buttons, had to stop black mage around level 70, just cause it got to hard to keep track of 5 different things at the same time.
It seems pretty clear that one should use paradox both in Umbral III and Astral III. Paradox's damage per spell lockout time is quite a bit better than fire iv. Delays of the astral phase don't matter, at least not per se.
What happened there at 8:21 with sharpcast? It looks like he used a thunder 3 to consume a sharpcast he already had applied which gave him the thundercloud, but then when he weaved the other use of sharpcast in, it just ate it up and disappeared without doing anything. You can see the 15s duration of the weaved sharpcast at the top on his buff bar just go away instantly after gaining it?
3:00 I love how the moment the words left his mouth he realized how silly it was to thinking newbie black mages wouldn't make the mistake of spamming Fire III.
There's really nothing like it. Once you go black, you never go back. I don't get the same rush (and frustration, so much frustration) from other classes as I do with BLM. They just don't offer the same playstyle.
@@PlazDreamweaver Totally agree with that. I’m an AST main, but when I want to DPS, there’s nothing quite like it. It’s by far the most challenging for me, but also the most rewarding
Hm. For AOE, when you have Manafont, will you want to just do another Flare right away, or do a Hi-Fire 2 for the Flare buff first? Like using Fire IV before a Manafont Despair.
No, you can't do that. The mana cost of Hi-Fire 2 is 1500 (unless the tooltip was shown with the increased mana cost for some reason) so in fire phase it's 3000. Manafont gives just 3000 mana and you need at least 800 mana to cast Flare or Despair.
Your max AoE fire phase will be : HF2 > HF2 > Flare > Flare > MF > Flare. Now, is 3rd not-buffed Flare worth it over just going to ice phase already i don't know.
So basically, just because you *can* use the fancy new during ice phase doesn't mean you should If you need a slot there, refresh your thunder, hit a B4, something It's an on demand spell, so make it work for you (i.e. always go for the fire cast)
Not a BLM theorycrafter, but seeing paradox's cast=GCD cast time, it seems like more PPS than a non-triple/swift F4, which means if I had to guess I'd say most of the time (unless skipping to force burst alignment?) it will be used in UI for damage and tick stalling. The one I'm more curious to see mathed out is the enhanced flare status. Cold flare seems dead with the longer forced UI phase from the freeze changes and HF2 being a flat improvement over F3 in big packs, but whether a 2nd HF2 is worth using vs a shorter cycle is not obvious from the surface.
Is it weird that I still want Mana Shift back for BLM? I liked being able to throw some free mana to the healers when they died since we are basically infinite mana batteries. Anyway, I like the look of the new stuff. Same old booms, but better!
I didnt see you mention it, but Fire 2 and Blizzard 2 no longer say "Grants Astral Fire/Umbral Ice OR removes AF/UI" it now says AND like F3 and B3 do, Meaning you dont have to transpose for those anymore.
Transport should only be used out of combat ( or if you can't hit anything near you )to go from fire to ice phase then spam umbral soul to keep your time going.
I love BLM at 80 so I'm glad this just seems to enhance that and we actually have an AoE rotation now instead of just flare and thunder procs with a freeze in between. I cannot wait, I'm likely gonna do the story on BLM, I was leaning to WHM like I normally do but BLM is so smooth right now.
The new skills shouldn't change much of the rotation, just add to it. I'm pretty excited for that and the quality of life improvements! Thanks for the video!
Here is an idea… They should combine leyline and manipulation into one ability. Similar to NIN, leyline allow them to create a buff or destination while aether manipulation allow them to teleport to the destination. You can just have 2 charges of that and make it work like an actual teleport magic instead of two separated abilities. Basically, you gain aether extraction (energy leak) after teleporting. It gives a buff for the duration after using the short distance teleport magic. Pretty much if they get two charges that added up to 24or 30s then the duration can be at 60s per charge at upgraded during lv70+
No Aether Manipulation and Betwewn the lines are absolutely fine. If there's a reason you need to leave your LL during a mechanic, you're doing it wrong.
Dont you mean between the leyline and the skill leyline? Aetherial manipulation is blackmage's ninja ability to teleport to party member. Between the leyline is the other half of ninja ability to teleport to ground target. Black mage do not get ninja ability to teleport to enemy target. So if anything, ninja teleport is far superior to black mage and has two charges that are recycled by their chakra. Ninja teleport is thus far superior and mobile compared to black mage. You're arguing to nerf black mage even more. Lol. They have the worst movement compared to casters. SMN in my dps log does far more dmg than black mage and has almost all instant cast abilities. SMN should not be considered casters but more like bards, mch and dnc in terms of dps becos of how mobile they are.
Happy with the proper Media Tour coverage….unlike some other content creators starting their uploads going: “REAPER, REAPER, REAPER, REAPER.” On topic, Black Mage changes look pretty good. Look forward to trying this out next month.
I love these new tools we’re getting, Enochian being a trait as well as the new AoEs and big boi Paradox, even Amplifier is amazing (free Xenoglossy/Foul, time it right and can get 4 Xenoglossies out or Fouls in AoE under burst windows or heavy movement) while Sharpcast being two charges as well as proc timings being increased for more leg room. Proud to be a Black Mage main since starting playing and can’t wait to play it in Endwalker. The only real gripe I have, being a really small one if that, what about Scathe? Would’ve been nice if it was an OGCD (with maybe a CD) to weave it between triplecast windows, Xenoglossy or firestarter/thundercloud procs but as it stands, doesn’t really matter in the long run.
There's a lot of things I dislike about black mage. But enocian was at the top of the list by a galaxy-wide margin. Trying to keep that active between pulls or during high movement fights was just tedious and infuriating. And if it fell off right after activating it? So much rage.... This change to enocian is how it should have been from the start.
@@itsspookie Thats fine for people who know each mechanic of every fight specifically but it shouldn't be that less experienced players have such a significantly shittier time just because experienced players are fine with it.
Just checked my subscriptions and was like Oh my, youtube fucked up again and shows me the same vid 20 times, then I looked closer and saw it was all differend vids and the Mr just uploaded a buttload of em. Madlad. Chapeau.
It scares me that new BLM players will now just alternate between F3 and B3 now that they're the same level. I know someone who used to do that... Also finally! No more awkward pauses with transpose after using flare in early levels!
People were complaining every expansion about adding more to the gauge each time, i don’t think having yet again another buff to it would be useful (especially for a temporary one)
Unless i'm missing something i think High Blizzard II just won't be used. Its the same potency as Freeze minus the Umbral Heart so what's the point? Why not skip it and go straight for 3xFreezes?
When playing blm at a high level, the optimal rotation was dumb. I parsed orange but still think we should've been able to stick with standard rotation.
Ai rotation might still work and be easier to use but you lose one potential 510 potency cast during fire phase, ice phase got easier to manage with a new guaranted gcd during ice (which mean you only need 1 instant before any transpose line) Im interested in the potential PPS of the usual line with fire I replaced
@@DeadJuicebox The "Hypermeme" rotation is, basically: Blizzard III -> 2x FREE SPACE -> Fire III -> 4x Fire IV -> Despair The free space is filled by Thunder III -> Xenoglossy if that's available and you need to refresh the dot; just Thunder III if you get a lucky mana tick; and B4->T3 into a standard 6xF3 Fire Phase if you don't have Xeno or a lucky mana tick. If the dot is still ticking, you can just go: B3->B4->F3->F4x4->Despair With a lucky mana tick meaning that you go into the standard rotation, using T3 when it's falling off. You can also do a double Xenoglossy rotation if the dot is ticking, but you need to be comfortable with the fight. There's also a second step to the rotation, and that's transpose lines. e.g. Despair -> Fire III proc -> ( weave Transpose) -> T3 proc -> Xenoglossy -> hardcast Fire III There's also _double_ transpose lines: Despair -> Xeno (Transpose, Sharpcast) -> T3 proc (triplecast, Lucid Dreaming) -> B4 (quick cast, transpose) -> F3 -> F4x3 -> Despair This requires lucky mana ticks after the first transpose, though. Here's the documents I learned about this through. Hypermeme Rotation: docs.google.com/document/d/1SBU4HpqBenHAXFr6V-gwAKggkfBgJ2IR9FEbMtT3YRw/edit?usp=sharing Transpose Lines: docs.google.com/document/d/1PdDAqmjSHJzpD4xrA7SUGtgqaoFoRibSYAsxfyOw9-I/edit?usp=sharing
Aspect Mastery lvl1, great. I said it should be before, because its superannoying playing low levels and relly on GCD ticks(which cause akward delays in rotation). Fire II will be gamechanger for blm aoe rotation, at least at lower levels. But it will make BLM more flexible at higher levels too. Im always trying run dungeons at single enochian....and i did it few times(its hard :) ). That game ends sadly. And while im generally in favor of this change, it removes rest of that blm minigame which made this job hard to master, but rewarding to play. Losing Enochian was big "noob moment", specially in end game content where it has big impact on your dps. It will have impact still, but pressure will be way lower since you have more ways to get get on full stacks instantly and you dont need to care about enochian cd at all.. High Fire? High Blizzard? Why not go directly to Blizzaga and Firaga. Those spells exist(bosses in CT) so why not use that names? Im certainly stronger than Xande already... If i understand it right, Freeze will be still giving Umbral Ice III(only with trait you get Umbral hearts aswell), which means you can open with it Freeze, thunder, high fire II x2 and then still double flare(tripple with Manafont, but last one will not get the buff). Im wondering if that enhanced Flare buff stays over umbral ice stage, since it has 30sec duration. And, if High Fire II will or will not consume umbral heart as fire III currently does. Then it would be probably better open with high fire II. We will see. Yea, i dont understand that Manafont trait either. It should be lower from very beginning. 120 seconds is still alot, but at least something. It gives player that extra kick more often so i'll not complain. Paradox is unaspected damage, so it wont benefit from Astral Fire. But you'll basically get it every time you switch and its potency laying around. But yea, its delay since it does nothing extra for your ice phase besides refreshing umbral ice which you dont need and can do with one spin if needed. Maybe tripple cast it in some cases(from astral fire III - b3,tripple, thunder,paradox,b4 and f3 back for new Paradox. Certainly could be better in ice phase. Could grant/chance for Sharpcast(Sharpcast would keep its single charge) like example, that would give sense to use it before/after thunder as necessary. Thats my thoughts. Im wondering if any other abilities changed somehow, like Transpose which will be pushed to lower skillbars even further.
I’ve played this job periodically since my mother got me the wrong version of Heavensward, and playing ShB BLM makes me appreciate the astral fire version of paradox, because instant cast reapplication of astral fire gives me room to make an extra cast of fire iv.
@@luxadia7310 I mean that I can get in extra cast of fire iv in before I need to reapply astral fire in the window after I’ve switched from umbral ice, rather than needing to spend that time casting fire.
I was really hoping for an "outside the lines" that teleports your leylines to you, but they gave us stuff that really doesn't matter in the long run. Not losing Enochian during prog is nice, though. The one thing that made prog annoying (other than awful statics where 1 person would leave every wipe and someone new would enter, resetting our prog infinitely. I'm not social at all in this game or irl, so I suffer from using PF). I was really hoping for some movement aid not in the form of instacasts, but not even most of our timers have been helped. Really annoying tbh, but I don't enjoy any other class because they are too piss easy compared to the utter suffering that is blm during prog, and too boring compared to the pure otherworldly surreal bliss that is blm once you've got a fight down. SMN is looking really cool now, and I really like Reaper's glamor potential and movement, but it looks like another DRG reskinned with a touch of RDM. And while I like DRG's theme, I only use it when I want to turn off my brain, usually during a long, tedious grind, so I'm not sure I'll get much satisfaction from Reaper. I'll have to see.
@@omgwtfbbqkitty technically not for JP or modified JP, even though after blizz phase you will have one charge. i tend to hold off if i know i need to use it for movement. but since now we have amplifier, we could do Fire III (to get into astral fire) -> single weave Amplifier (since we dont need to weave enochian) which will let us weave Xeno within the actual opener. thats just my understanding, im in no way a theorycrafter, just a semi decent blm lol (maybe?)
B2 and Freeze are for max aoe dmg. You use B2 is instead of B3 in ao3. You use freeze instead of B4 in aoe. If you have 3 or more targets, you switch to the aoe rotation for BLM. But I am with you, they can just combine the two into one button that do both effects.
I miss spam freeze you could rotate 1 freeze and 2 flares on every aoe pack, it was really nice , now it feels you are forced into single target to begin an aoe roation
Me: Hoping obsolete dead buttons like Blizzard 1, Blizzard 2, and Fire 2 would be removed like the wastes of bar space that they are that only plagues Black Mage, because every other job gets that kind of stuff replaced. BLM was the only job with 3.5 dead buttons. Reality: HEY FIND BAR SPACE FOR THEM! Me: Thanks, I really wanted needless button bloat. -_- At least it's AOE so back into the garbage bin with those buttons!
You’re gonna want them Freeze doesn’t refresh your ice timer anymore whereas high blizzard 2 does, and high fire 2 enhances flare’s potency So uh, good luck on those aoe ice phases in dungeons I guess, mashing umbral soul to not lose your stacks It’s not button bloat if they’re not adding any buttons, take it out on amplifier and paradox if you’re gonna call existing buttons being upgraded “button bloat”
@@Milequetoaster Only fire 1 does, blizzard 1 remained the same in the video footage. Edit: I was looking at Blizzard 3's icon like a dumdum. Apparently Bliz 1 also changes.
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Found a changed missed in your coverage over in r/FFXIVs coverage. Sleep was removed from THM/BLM and put into Caster Role Actions. Didn't even realize it til a good hour or so after watching this video.
This is interesting because Black Mage got more of a rework than I thought as most of these changes actually go back to earlier levels which might make the job more fun to play when synced down.
Didn't even thinl of that, sounds great lmao
Black mage seems to continue its trend of being well designed. And more Explosions are a plus.
Technically they’re at the cap now. The only thing I can think of when BLM has a share ability with WHM at lv99.
The only different that the job use most abilities at attacking or healing and shielding pop
Holy crap, a lot of coverage goes over 80-90 leveling but this video is so great for understanding how BLM changes when syncing down for roulettes. Aspect Mastery for free at lvl 1? Blizzard 2 isn't a point blank aoe? B3 and F3 are learned at the same time? Finally, doing stuff like Sastasha, Brayflox, or Snowcloak will not be so bone-hurtingly cringe.
Enochian being a trait will MASSIVELY improve boss fights. Losing Enochian to mechanics and having to wait for it to come back is one of the most frustrating things to deal with
Frustrating, yes, but motivation not to.
If you bank Xeno and procs you should be OK to keep it up, and you can spam Umbral Soul during intermission so it really shouldn't be an issue if you think ahead of time. You can also reactively hit Transpose as the emergency button
@@znarch There are fights where you can't use skills for a prolonged amount of time which leads to you loosing Enochian so not having to activate it again after that phase is pretty nice.
@@fritzbaum7332 yeah it saves you a button press but I believe he is talking about losing enochian before the 30s CD comes back up. Most, if not all extended no-action periods last longer than that so there is no lockout
Most of my ffxiv rage-quit moments have been from dropping enochian right after refreshing it. Eno-trait may make the job a little more small brained but im NOT complaining
Really looking forward to no longer throwing a tiny fire 1 at max level!
Tbh I'm going to miss enochian as an action, the animation looked really cool and I loved the feeling of a bunch of silly magical prep happening when it was double weaved.
Tbh enochian as a skill would be fine if it isnt tied to Fire 4 or that it has more charges. As its no longer tied to Fire 4 (and blizzard 4) it isnt a buff that needs to be maintained every 30 seconds. It was more of an annoyance than anything. That buff itself is 5% dmg itself. No big deal. Going from Fire 4 to Fire 1 is bummer. If fire 4 isnt the only skill black mage can spam that does damage it wouldnt be so bad. But it is the only spammable nuke. You dont see any other class being solely dependent on a single skill for dps. Even some classes that have their best dps skills aren't tied up every 30 seconds if a buff wears off and if there is such a skill that they have, it wouldnt nerf their dps from fire 4 (300 potency) to fire 1 (180 potency). A difference of 1.5 to almost 2x dmg reduction. Thats like going from 6k dps to 3.6k dps. Ridiculous.
Same, and as a previous DRG main I miss Life of the Dragon being a skill.
It's a good change probably, I've just gotten so used to keeping it up all the time and I kind of liked that about the job. You just get used to it so much it becomes part of the charm.
It feels busy in a different way now (at 90), I'm just not used to it yet... and I'm a reaper main now.
I'll miss the blue flames around your character and I still have this instincf to press Life of the Dragon before every pull and it never goes away...
Maybe I'm weird but somehow having pet peeves with a job makes me almost like them more? Gives it character. BLM keeping Enochian up and maximising the ley lines was very challenging and frustrating, sure, but it also made me want to get better at the job despite not maining it.
(My BLM is only at 70, so take my input with a grain of salt. )
This seems like a streamlined and quicker version of Black Mage so I’m excited!
Wow I wish I didn't level BLM from 1 to 80 before these changes. Leveling is going to be so much better.
I’ve been a smn main but I’ve been tempted to level up BLM, should I go for it? Or just wait until Endwalker release
@@maomochi6403 i feel like the leveling experience will be significantly improved next expansion, mostly because of the changes to AoE actions and Aspect Mastery being moved to level 1. This will make every dungeon feel a lot less clunky. If you really want to level BLM now go for it, but I expect it will feel a lot better in a few weeks.
@@maomochi6403 It's alot better now but i do still think it's boring to play at earlier levels. Kind of gets fun after you get fire and blizzard 4.
So it is much more fun to level or just used in leveling roulette. Sounds cool.
I do appreciate them streamlining a lot of buttons, had to stop black mage around level 70, just cause it got to hard to keep track of 5 different things at the same time.
BLM ice phase would now always be blizz 4 and paradox, which pushes our instants (procs, xeno) into the fire phase
Hm, i have my instants allready in the firephase, i mean after Despair you have full 15 seconds to cast all the instas :D
Paradox refreshes umbral ice timer so you can fit them in if needed
It seems pretty clear that one should use paradox both in Umbral III and Astral III. Paradox's damage per spell lockout time is quite a bit better than fire iv. Delays of the astral phase don't matter, at least not per se.
Sharpcast has no duration now so pre-casting well before pull plus 2 charges = lots of sharps in the opener.
What happened there at 8:21 with sharpcast? It looks like he used a thunder 3 to consume a sharpcast he already had applied which gave him the thundercloud, but then when he weaved the other use of sharpcast in, it just ate it up and disappeared without doing anything. You can see the 15s duration of the weaved sharpcast at the top on his buff bar just go away instantly after gaining it?
3:00 I love how the moment the words left his mouth he realized how silly it was to thinking newbie black mages wouldn't make the mistake of spamming Fire III.
I've been LOVING Black Mage recently, and all of these changes just make me even more excited. Considering making it my DPS main 🙌
There's really nothing like it. Once you go black, you never go back. I don't get the same rush (and frustration, so much frustration) from other classes as I do with BLM. They just don't offer the same playstyle.
@@PlazDreamweaver Totally agree with that. I’m an AST main, but when I want to DPS, there’s nothing quite like it. It’s by far the most challenging for me, but also the most rewarding
Hm. For AOE, when you have Manafont, will you want to just do another Flare right away, or do a Hi-Fire 2 for the Flare buff first? Like using Fire IV before a Manafont Despair.
No, you can't do that. The mana cost of Hi-Fire 2 is 1500 (unless the tooltip was shown with the increased mana cost for some reason) so in fire phase it's 3000. Manafont gives just 3000 mana and you need at least 800 mana to cast Flare or Despair.
Only if you throw an Ether after HF 2
Your max AoE fire phase will be :
HF2 > HF2 > Flare > Flare > MF > Flare.
Now, is 3rd not-buffed Flare worth it over just going to ice phase already i don't know.
So basically, just because you *can* use the fancy new during ice phase doesn't mean you should
If you need a slot there, refresh your thunder, hit a B4, something
It's an on demand spell, so make it work for you (i.e. always go for the fire cast)
Not a BLM theorycrafter, but seeing paradox's cast=GCD cast time, it seems like more PPS than a non-triple/swift F4, which means if I had to guess I'd say most of the time (unless skipping to force burst alignment?) it will be used in UI for damage and tick stalling.
The one I'm more curious to see mathed out is the enhanced flare status. Cold flare seems dead with the longer forced UI phase from the freeze changes and HF2 being a flat improvement over F3 in big packs, but whether a 2nd HF2 is worth using vs a shorter cycle is not obvious from the surface.
Cold flare is impossible now. It can only be used while in astral fire. Same with freeze needing umbral ice.
I kinda wish b2 would upgrade to freeze. One less button on the hot bar etc.
Is it weird that I still want Mana Shift back for BLM? I liked being able to throw some free mana to the healers when they died since we are basically infinite mana batteries. Anyway, I like the look of the new stuff. Same old booms, but better!
definitely would give them at least some utility, yep.
For now they want BLM and SAM to be the ultimate dps jobs.
@@AliAlslaman yeah I know, but a man can dream 😅
Aspect Mastery being a lower level really does buff the AoE rotation.
I didnt see you mention it, but Fire 2 and Blizzard 2 no longer say "Grants Astral Fire/Umbral Ice OR removes AF/UI" it now says AND like F3 and B3 do, Meaning you dont have to transpose for those anymore.
You didn't have to transpose anyway because of the level 1 trait.
Fire 2 doesn't work like this now that it's live :(
Transport should only be used out of combat ( or if you can't hit anything near you )to go from fire to ice phase then spam umbral soul to keep your time going.
I love BLM at 80 so I'm glad this just seems to enhance that and we actually have an AoE rotation now instead of just flare and thunder procs with a freeze in between. I cannot wait, I'm likely gonna do the story on BLM, I was leaning to WHM like I normally do but BLM is so smooth right now.
Hi MrHappy, did you manage to see if Transpose + Umbral soul (twice) coming from fire phase, gives you the paradox shard? ty
The new skills shouldn't change much of the rotation, just add to it. I'm pretty excited for that and the quality of life improvements! Thanks for the video!
Enochian and blood of the dragon both turn into trait, guess greased lightning did a positive thing
i love it when it goes boom.
Here is an idea…
They should combine leyline and manipulation into one ability. Similar to NIN, leyline allow them to create a buff or destination while aether manipulation allow them to teleport to the destination.
You can just have 2 charges of that and make it work like an actual teleport magic instead of two separated abilities. Basically, you gain aether extraction (energy leak) after teleporting. It gives a buff for the duration after using the short distance teleport magic.
Pretty much if they get two charges that added up to 24or 30s then the duration can be at 60s per charge at upgraded during lv70+
No
Aether Manipulation and Betwewn the lines are absolutely fine. If there's a reason you need to leave your LL during a mechanic, you're doing it wrong.
Dont you mean between the leyline and the skill leyline? Aetherial manipulation is blackmage's ninja ability to teleport to party member. Between the leyline is the other half of ninja ability to teleport to ground target. Black mage do not get ninja ability to teleport to enemy target. So if anything, ninja teleport is far superior to black mage and has two charges that are recycled by their chakra. Ninja teleport is thus far superior and mobile compared to black mage. You're arguing to nerf black mage even more. Lol. They have the worst movement compared to casters. SMN in my dps log does far more dmg than black mage and has almost all instant cast abilities. SMN should not be considered casters but more like bards, mch and dnc in terms of dps becos of how mobile they are.
Someone needs to show Preach this video 🙂
Any tips for a newer blm?
thanks for the hard work!
Happy with the proper Media Tour coverage….unlike some other content creators starting their uploads going: “REAPER, REAPER, REAPER, REAPER.”
On topic, Black Mage changes look pretty good. Look forward to trying this out next month.
I love these new tools we’re getting, Enochian being a trait as well as the new AoEs and big boi Paradox, even Amplifier is amazing (free Xenoglossy/Foul, time it right and can get 4 Xenoglossies out or Fouls in AoE under burst windows or heavy movement) while Sharpcast being two charges as well as proc timings being increased for more leg room. Proud to be a Black Mage main since starting playing and can’t wait to play it in Endwalker.
The only real gripe I have, being a really small one if that, what about Scathe? Would’ve been nice if it was an OGCD (with maybe a CD) to weave it between triplecast windows, Xenoglossy or firestarter/thundercloud procs but as it stands, doesn’t really matter in the long run.
Is paradox the fire/blizzard fusion attack? Fire/ thunder?
Yes the Fire / ice attack. The one that look like fire / thunder is despair.
There's a lot of things I dislike about black mage. But enocian was at the top of the list by a galaxy-wide margin. Trying to keep that active between pulls or during high movement fights was just tedious and infuriating. And if it fell off right after activating it? So much rage.... This change to enocian is how it should have been from the start.
It really isnt that difficult if you know how to play the class/know fights.
@@itsspookie It's not a matter of knowing how to play it or not.
Agreed. I love the job but found I’d lose my bearings if it fell off too early. I’m glad I don’t need to worry about that when EW drops.
@@itsspookie Thats fine for people who know each mechanic of every fight specifically but it shouldn't be that less experienced players have such a significantly shittier time just because experienced players are fine with it.
I'm so happy that Eno-chan is no longer going to be a button press... Freaking finally. >.>
C'mon Square what are you doing!? Why do you have to make all you classes so amazing!? I can only main one!!!!!!!!!
Here we goooo
Stay on the black brothers and sisters. May your buffs never fall and your explosions critically hit.
Shieeeeeet. Time to put fire II and Blizzard II back on my hotbar then!
Just checked my subscriptions and was like Oh my, youtube fucked up again and shows me the same vid 20 times, then I looked closer and saw it was all differend vids and the Mr just uploaded a buttload of em. Madlad. Chapeau.
Awesome! Can't wait to play blm in endwalker!
*Proceeds to fire 3 spam at lower level cause Im bad at the job* Hmm....these words....mean something.
It scares me that new BLM players will now just alternate between F3 and B3 now that they're the same level.
I know someone who used to do that...
Also finally! No more awkward pauses with transpose after using flare in early levels!
They fixed the flare awkwardness since shadowbringers if i am not mistaken
I was really looking forward to seeing fire 5 sighhhh
While everything looks amazing as hell. why isn't "Enhanced Flare" buff included to the Job Gauge. this gives me HW feels with Enochian
It's honestly not needed, you're consuming that buff immediately after casting the HF2s, by finishing your rotation with 2 flares
People were complaining every expansion about adding more to the gauge each time, i don’t think having yet again another buff to it would be useful (especially for a temporary one)
Does Blizzard 1 just become Blizzard 3?
I’m gonna miss my 50k damage, but this just looks like we went back to ARR stats and I’m okay with that
Lmao the potencies and stats will be adjusted
Thunder still getting the shaft sadly, but otherwise looks great.
The instant cast proc has a longer timer now if you consider that an upgrade 🤣
Unless i'm missing something i think High Blizzard II just won't be used. Its the same potency as Freeze minus the Umbral Heart so what's the point? Why not skip it and go straight for 3xFreezes?
Freeze no longer gives Umbral Ice, so you have to use High Blizzard 2 in order to switch to Umbral Ice.
@@Creeperman6612 Ahhh i see
Guess I'll have to put blizzard 2 on the hotbar now 🤷🏽
Yoship said fuck the opti rotation, I like the standard rotation better. More mobilty which makes blm even more mobile than rdm which is lovely.
When playing blm at a high level, the optimal rotation was dumb. I parsed orange but still think we should've been able to stick with standard rotation.
Ai rotation might still work and be easier to use but you lose one potential 510 potency cast during fire phase, ice phase got easier to manage with a new guaranted gcd during ice (which mean you only need 1 instant before any transpose line)
Im interested in the potential PPS of the usual line with fire I replaced
What was the optimal rotation that everyone is talking about? I looked at Ahk Morning and Caro guides but that rotation uses B4
@@DeadJuicebox The "Hypermeme" rotation is, basically:
Blizzard III -> 2x FREE SPACE -> Fire III -> 4x Fire IV -> Despair
The free space is filled by Thunder III -> Xenoglossy if that's available and you need to refresh the dot; just Thunder III if you get a lucky mana tick; and B4->T3 into a standard 6xF3 Fire Phase if you don't have Xeno or a lucky mana tick.
If the dot is still ticking, you can just go:
B3->B4->F3->F4x4->Despair
With a lucky mana tick meaning that you go into the standard rotation, using T3 when it's falling off.
You can also do a double Xenoglossy rotation if the dot is ticking, but you need to be comfortable with the fight.
There's also a second step to the rotation, and that's transpose lines.
e.g.
Despair -> Fire III proc -> ( weave Transpose) -> T3 proc -> Xenoglossy -> hardcast Fire III
There's also _double_ transpose lines:
Despair -> Xeno (Transpose, Sharpcast) -> T3 proc (triplecast, Lucid Dreaming) -> B4 (quick cast, transpose) -> F3 -> F4x3 -> Despair
This requires lucky mana ticks after the first transpose, though.
Here's the documents I learned about this through.
Hypermeme Rotation: docs.google.com/document/d/1SBU4HpqBenHAXFr6V-gwAKggkfBgJ2IR9FEbMtT3YRw/edit?usp=sharing
Transpose Lines: docs.google.com/document/d/1PdDAqmjSHJzpD4xrA7SUGtgqaoFoRibSYAsxfyOw9-I/edit?usp=sharing
@@DeadJuicebox someone described it already but since it was called a meme rotation per say, I can see why they didn't put it up in ahk morning
Aspect Mastery lvl1, great. I said it should be before, because its superannoying playing low levels and relly on GCD ticks(which cause akward delays in rotation).
Fire II will be gamechanger for blm aoe rotation, at least at lower levels. But it will make BLM more flexible at higher levels too.
Im always trying run dungeons at single enochian....and i did it few times(its hard :) ). That game ends sadly. And while im generally in favor of this change, it removes rest of that blm minigame which made this job hard to master, but rewarding to play. Losing Enochian was big "noob moment", specially in end game content where it has big impact on your dps. It will have impact still, but pressure will be way lower since you have more ways to get get on full stacks instantly and you dont need to care about enochian cd at all..
High Fire? High Blizzard? Why not go directly to Blizzaga and Firaga. Those spells exist(bosses in CT) so why not use that names? Im certainly stronger than Xande already...
If i understand it right, Freeze will be still giving Umbral Ice III(only with trait you get Umbral hearts aswell), which means you can open with it Freeze, thunder, high fire II x2 and then still double flare(tripple with Manafont, but last one will not get the buff). Im wondering if that enhanced Flare buff stays over umbral ice stage, since it has 30sec duration. And, if High Fire II will or will not consume umbral heart as fire III currently does. Then it would be probably better open with high fire II. We will see.
Yea, i dont understand that Manafont trait either. It should be lower from very beginning. 120 seconds is still alot, but at least something. It gives player that extra kick more often so i'll not complain.
Paradox is unaspected damage, so it wont benefit from Astral Fire. But you'll basically get it every time you switch and its potency laying around. But yea, its delay since it does nothing extra for your ice phase besides refreshing umbral ice which you dont need and can do with one spin if needed. Maybe tripple cast it in some cases(from astral fire III - b3,tripple, thunder,paradox,b4 and f3 back for new Paradox.
Certainly could be better in ice phase. Could grant/chance for Sharpcast(Sharpcast would keep its single charge) like example, that would give sense to use it before/after thunder as necessary.
Thats my thoughts. Im wondering if any other abilities changed somehow, like Transpose which will be pushed to lower skillbars even further.
I’ve played this job periodically since my mother got me the wrong version of Heavensward, and playing ShB BLM makes me appreciate the astral fire version of paradox, because instant cast reapplication of astral fire gives me room to make an extra cast of fire iv.
What do you mean? Mana wise you will never get a 7th fire IV?
@@luxadia7310 I mean that I can get in extra cast of fire iv in before I need to reapply astral fire in the window after I’ve switched from umbral ice, rather than needing to spend that time casting fire.
Paradox has a cast time standard gcd. In the video he uses swift for some reason
Paradox has cast time but you won't feel bad casting. It hit strong and looks cool 😎
My main lets go
I was really hoping for an "outside the lines" that teleports your leylines to you, but they gave us stuff that really doesn't matter in the long run.
Not losing Enochian during prog is nice, though. The one thing that made prog annoying (other than awful statics where 1 person would leave every wipe and someone new would enter, resetting our prog infinitely. I'm not social at all in this game or irl, so I suffer from using PF). I was really hoping for some movement aid not in the form of instacasts, but not even most of our timers have been helped. Really annoying tbh, but I don't enjoy any other class because they are too piss easy compared to the utter suffering that is blm during prog, and too boring compared to the pure otherworldly surreal bliss that is blm once you've got a fight down.
SMN is looking really cool now, and I really like Reaper's glamor potential and movement, but it looks like another DRG reskinned with a touch of RDM. And while I like DRG's theme, I only use it when I want to turn off my brain, usually during a long, tedious grind, so I'm not sure I'll get much satisfaction from Reaper. I'll have to see.
some great changes
looks like Mr. Happy can really see the changes to BLM,
but can he see why kids love the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch?
So, woke up this morning, and somebody puked Mrhappy content all over my subscription page. It could be worse. Keep it up brother!
This is just Beautiful 😍 ❤ 💕
What about sleep? We all know everyones biggest question is sleep.
kinda strange that they went back and smoothed out the leveling experience for BLM, but not anybody else.
the only bad thing about this is that ice spells still dont give a mana tick
Pvp my man
BLM go brrrrr ❤️
MNK go Ora ora
so zeno is part of the opener now lol
It already was?
@@omgwtfbbqkitty technically not for JP or modified JP, even though after blizz phase you will have one charge. i tend to hold off if i know i need to use it for movement. but since now we have amplifier, we could do Fire III (to get into astral fire) -> single weave Amplifier (since we dont need to weave enochian) which will let us weave Xeno within the actual opener.
thats just my understanding, im in no way a theorycrafter, just a semi decent blm lol (maybe?)
Zeno is part of the most used no b4 opener (unless you get 2 mana tick B4 and go straight back into fire)
yeah i just noticed that. i havent used no B4 in a while. rockin that high SpS build
Since Blizzard II is not a PBAoE anymore, freeze should just upgrade it.
B2 and Freeze are for max aoe dmg. You use B2 is instead of B3 in ao3. You use freeze instead of B4 in aoe. If you have 3 or more targets, you switch to the aoe rotation for BLM.
But I am with you, they can just combine the two into one button that do both effects.
lol damn 2 more free instant casts
RIP : Activating Eno chan T_T
Hell yes to no hard weaving anymore, we are officialy married to Enochan and can’t lose her anymore
I will miss the animation to enochian then going right into fire IV
I miss spam freeze you could rotate 1 freeze and 2 flares on every aoe pack, it was really nice , now it feels you are forced into single target to begin an aoe roation
BLM is life \(^w^)/
My baby, oh how you grew
Me: Hoping obsolete dead buttons like Blizzard 1, Blizzard 2, and Fire 2 would be removed like the wastes of bar space that they are that only plagues Black Mage, because every other job gets that kind of stuff replaced. BLM was the only job with 3.5 dead buttons.
Reality: HEY FIND BAR SPACE FOR THEM!
Me: Thanks, I really wanted needless button bloat. -_- At least it's AOE so back into the garbage bin with those buttons!
You’re gonna want them
Freeze doesn’t refresh your ice timer anymore whereas high blizzard 2 does, and high fire 2 enhances flare’s potency
So uh, good luck on those aoe ice phases in dungeons I guess, mashing umbral soul to not lose your stacks
It’s not button bloat if they’re not adding any buttons, take it out on amplifier and paradox if you’re gonna call existing buttons being upgraded “button bloat”
@@kuronaialtani Paradox isn't an extra button either, Fire I and Blizzard I turn into Paradox when under the effect of it.
You have space for it
@@Milequetoaster That it does, my mistake o7
@@Milequetoaster Only fire 1 does, blizzard 1 remained the same in the video footage.
Edit: I was looking at Blizzard 3's icon like a dumdum. Apparently Bliz 1 also changes.
Blizzard 2 is relevant?! o_O
Finally, a reason to put that back on my bar lol
Hhhgggnnnnn
"Yeah.. BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! Wait up a sec! Let me finish this blunt! Much better, High fire II, High Fire II, High Fire II."