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[ff-fanatix]

ok is it juts me or does the black mage job suck an incredible amount of ass.......

my mate got the game the other day and ahd to pick a job....

he picked black mage...so i decided to lvl my black mage to sub to my white mage.....

we soon began to realise how much god damn down time there was....especially when you hit the lvl 6 - 11.....damn i really do hate black mages.....not just because fo this...but even before this....an inexperience black mage in the dunes can cost you your life....

opinions ?

[SNOOZER]

I didn't have trouble when I was raising my BLM. What LV is your BLM 6-11? You've barely even started the job. If down time is the problem, you should go ahead and buy some juices for mana regen.

Each job has it's own purpose, if you find BLM to be frustrating, maybe sticking to the melee jobs is what you should do.

[Roogle]

It takes certain people to be able to be a mage! Maybe you're just not one of them.

[Vaprice]

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I'm sorry but have you ever played as a WHM? Or a BST? WHM has more downtime if you don't know how to solo the job properly.....

if your a BLM you should be able to beat down the monsters easily. Just nuke the heck out of it~ The more important thing is staying alive.

If you've eevr played as a WHM you'd understand the downtime is much more painful and dangerous.......

[DJZen]

I sorta off and on level a BLM and a WHM. BLM is probably the most fun I've had in the game so far.

[Lionx]

Or maybe you are taking the wrong steps.

Soloing Pre-Bind you should take out your weapon at a long distance away and hit with your hardest nuke and just chain nuke. After you get Bind you bind em in place and kill them without being touched even. Whats so hard about that? WHM is definetly harder...lack of firepower AND HP...all we do is do the war of endurance which even i do at higher levels without Hexa Strike..i dont see whats wrong. IF you are lvl BLM for WHM sub then you have Cure too and thats even BETTER.

Every job lvl up after..lvl 6 slows down and thats when soloing is a chore and boring as hell.

In a party theres only very few artilery jobs out there. Only real job that can replace you is a SMN, with possibly another melee, RNG, or RDM. With exception to the RNG maybe, you can do more chunks of dmg than any of the other jobs. Magic Bursts can go over the limit of dmg very easily for you and you are best doing a large ammount of dmg in a short ammount of time. It is very useful to have a BLM when doing large exp chains and managing your MP is important to achieve that chain.

[Miriel]

I like Black mage, it's my favorite job after white mage. It gets a little boring after awhile but I guess that can be true of any job. I looooove magic bursting though. And I <3 drain.

[DJZen]

Armando totally told me to conserve MP and just cure while levelling BLM or WHM. I totally cried when he said that. It was like every good thing in the universe had simeltaneously been destroyed.