henceforth calling mind tinctures paint water don't forget to chug your paint water for a better parse y'all!

henceforth calling mind tinctures paint water don't forget to chug your paint water for a better parse y'all!

Thank you for your hard work, this is very thorough and easy to understand. You tha best!🙏

Love the way you explain things. Hoping for a Viper video too!

I feel yours is the best and most thorough guide to Pictomancer because of your focus on expressing the freedom within the job. Great vid! I hope you cover more jobs.

I'm putting this into my watch later for now (only watched a bit) but I just wanted to say before I forgot that you have a good cadence and way of explaining things. Appreciate the content!

thanks for doing this. red mage, dergoon and gb here..good to know how different they are

How can one be a fan of non damaging gap closers...

This is definitely the most fun SAM has ever been and I can honestly just laugh at these people who complain about every little thing. Only children expect everything in life to be perfect so I find it very hard to understand how grown-ups are this ungrateful when life is actually pretty damn good with all these new exciting changes. Where did this idiotic mentality come from that If one person says something everyone has to agree? Jesus people start using your brains. If you don't like something move on and stop making everything about you! Thank goodness the dev team ignores these people, if they hadn't we would be sitting where World of Warcraft is today. A mess of a game that caters to the loud narcissistic minority.

It's post launch now, so it's a bit later, but the dnc changes are pretty huge. Tillana giving gauge and the addition of last dance and finishing move really changes how you navigate burst phases substantially compared to previous expansions. Much more so than what it may appear I think.

I refuse to give up BLM. #BLM for life

one thing i miss in summoner, is being able to STAY with my elementals summoned all the time. and not for 1 hit and desepear. so disapointing for me. I like to summon and CONTROL these elemental monsters.

Thanks for making this video! My wife and I are longtime ESO players and looking for a change of pace. We haven't even fired up FFXIV yet but we both nabbed the starter edition on steam. I main a Warden Healer in ESOs endgame, sounds like White Mage will be my first stop and we'll go from there. My wife will start Bard but I could see her really liking Dancer. #RealMenHeal

Monk still has no range?

Its not exactly that I want SMN to be complax, but at least give some wow factor when doing an update, honestly just give 3 new regular summons that just change in looks after doing phoenix would've been hell of a lot better than just robot bahamut

I actually disagree with the summoner analysis. Old summoner was a complex class, high skill players I know personally loved it for that reason. In EW when it got changed most of them went to BLM. Now apparently BLM is getting easier… I get the majority of players are considered ‘low skill’ or compared to the high end raiders but I still believe the original identity of SMN was a high skill class.

Blackmage is another Top DPS it isn’t weak the problem with this game is the developers are jerks for wanting you to dodge so many AOE when this game is slow AF and the ran action doesn’t last long enough this game seem to favor melee over range each expansion the AOE just keep getting crazy just belonging the fight i am starting to pick up on thier “Game design” since playing from 2013

and again no one talks about thundercloud on blm :( fucking awful.

As someone who enjoys the black mage, i was thrown for a loop when Dawntrail launched. My rotation had to change a bit and i only feel the best when im playing lvl 90 content or higher. Not have mana regen in ice phase has made me need to rethink my flow. In some battles im still trying to figure it out.

I was not happy with the MP regeneration change

I'm still a BLM and have no intentions of switching. We need a slight potency boost but otherwise the job is feeling great.

I love the game, but it seems to me that FFXIV players somehow have managed to blind themselves to the fact that there is no customization and no variation in ANY ASPECT of FFXIV gameplay. There's no variation in gear, in materia, in the buttons you hit and the order you hit them in, and there's no variation in where you can stand or when and where you need to move. "Getting good" at FFXIV entails figuring the EXACT details that your Job must follow, every time.

AST was most fun during HW

tbh the black mage changes are way better than what most other classes got so idk what people are complaining besides having to have to many buttons while picto gets their buttons condensed into 1

I have been a black mage main since I started the game (thaumaturge from character creation). the paradox rotation was the best mage rotation I have experienced in any MMO. It just felt good to perform. that being said, it was not paradox that made me love this job. I trust SE and will keep being BLM all the way to lvl 100 :)

why WOULD black mages be mad? they have no reason to be anything but very happy. the black mage changes are some of the best.

I tire of this farce....give Plunge back, Yoshi P.

Summoner is for casual players... Didn't use to be like that... sigh

I'm sad that devs seem to want to stamp out non standard rotations. That will go a long way to stagnate the game making every job a cookie cutter.

I wonder, who actually likes the changes to black mage? Even as a person who sticks to standard rotation because I am a very recent player of FFXIV, now I am actually scared because now they can just dumb down any class for “consistency” and whatever excuses are there.

monk used to be so confusing like ... i only do casual monk play and i had no idea that the rythm was as it was now with the pips it all made sense xD and yeah i don't see the difference in practice, its only better at telling you whats happening and what you are supposed to do (without reading a guide) if any decision making is changed, i am sorry for that but from what i have been gathering its just how info is presented

Yeah, I'm one of those who disagree with your opinion about AST. My reasoning ist removing the randomness out of a system that represents cards, means removing the core idea of cards in general. Cards are on of the earliest means to humans to generate random outcomes, some to "predict" fate, some to gamble etc. The AST is meant to deal with the concept of fate and that you can't have it all. So breaking the basic concept of "fate" by giving smth absolutly optimizable is what makes the AST currently a broken class. I'm only talking about the concept of its aesthetics and lore here. AST was already one of the weakest classes in EW, when it comes to its design. And now it just is no longer an AST but in name. Maybe they should rename it to smth else, like illusionist.

Honestly, I'd have forgiven any amount (or, rather, lack thereof) of SMN changes if they'd _finally_ given us egi-glam. They kept delaying it, saying that, well, they were to busy with other SMN changes/reworks. Now they changed practically nothing except giving it a Bahamut reskin, and… still no egi-glam.

you can just hear the lack of testosterone here

PLD was perfect.

Honestly as a black mage main that loved nonstandard, I would have understood more if they killed nonstandard but made the leveling/low level experience on the job a lot better and did a better job teaching the flow of it to new players. But... they didn't, really at all, they just killed a fun playstyle that was totally optional, didn't break the game since the DPS gains were pretty small. Instead of a fairly strict job that could become very flexible if you cared to put in a lot of practice, now it's just strict for everyone. In terms of theory crafters finding cool new opti, don't hold your breath. After probably 2000 hours on blm, I'm switching jobs in DT

They ruined the Gunbreaker. Wow thank you Yoshi-p

I'm considering switching from black mage to pictomancer. Maybe it's just because picto is new that makes the rotation feels challenging, but new black mage feels so dumbed down. New manafont feels amazing, but losing ice paradox and the lucid dreaming + transpose shenanigas feels like it's lost so much of it's identity as a rule-breaker. Breaking rules is what separates normal magic from black magic, and following a strict rotation is... just antithetical

I didn't dislike Summoner in Endwalker, but the job didn't get much in Dawntrail from what was shown. Even if it was just one summon that was to be given, a new Bahamut was a bad choice with how the job currently plays. Aside from that, I am pretty much okay with everything they did for the jobs in the game. Although I would have liked Monk to not lose the damage over time since it was fun to me.

Imma be honest, i never understood the whole sentiment that MNK was hard prior to DT. Even with people explaining I just couldn't understand where the challenge was 😅

Samurai and Gunbreakers got shafted this expansion, Samurai lost numbers and had both Shoha compressed into one skill. Gunbreaker’s rotation feels a little clunky and slow now, keep in mind that these are my mains and my initial thoughts on the changes. They will change as the expansion progresses and they probably aren’t as bad as they currently appear.

Dude my Rough Divide, wtf look what they did to my boy. They made it uncool. RIP Squall

Glad I stopped playing after 6.0 hahahaha seems to me that what mattered with FF14 died with 6.0 theres nothing for me moving forward.

Very glad that DNC got a very meaningful change out of nowhere that completely changes the rotation from EW.

You definitely missed the history of SMN. Interesting take but the class in FFXIV was known as an easy to learn hard to master pet & dot mage class before the Endwalker change. Endwalker made it easy for entry and many Summoner mains who have been with the class back in the beginning was hoping to have some development or at the very least something that takes what we've been doing with the rework further. For new players (not new summoners) they will never know the stress and trains of thought us older SMNs went through on materia/stat management as some slight changes can mess with our damage and buff windows. The 'easy' mage class before Endwalker was RDM. Please consult with people who main a job before making these takes dude

Hope gunbreaker still is fun after this

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Watched a short guide before this video. Sorta got it. Then I checked out yours and the flow chart and the explanation that came with it was insanely helpful thank you!

Yay, make Tanks more easy... now there is absolutely no reason to play tank anymore 😢

This was a banger, thank you