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BLM needs a little more babysitting than some classes, but it’s far from unusable. With 2 macros to handle despair and xeno, it has a solid rotation. I manually do my opener just because miqo pops manafont way too soon, but even then if you just cast fire 3 after the thunder cast during the opener it still mostly works fine.

Here are the 2 macros I use, the first one just uses the icon for foul but casts xenoglossy. I keep foul on a seperate bar and swap out foul or the macro based on if I’m fighting trash or a boss
/micon “Foul”
/merror off
/ac “Xenoglossy” <t>

Then this second one replaces blizzard III and will try to cast despair first if there’s mana for it. Miqo has a habit of using transpose to swap elements, so it’s not perfect, but it works pretty well.
/micon “Blizzard III”
/merror off
/ac “Despair” <t>
/ac “Blizzard III” <t>

For savage raiding, I move ley lines to another hotbar and manually use it since optimizing positioning become so important. Though miqo gets super confused sometimes when ley lines is available but it can’t use it, so again, a little babysitting will fix that and get it back into a rotation. BLM is definitely not set-it-and-forget-it like some classes, but a little effort makes it totally usable in most content.

[PropTopParticipant]

The new update is working great for black mage (primarily the updated aoe rotation). Hopefully it should be easy to update to 80 as they only get 3 new abilities from 71-80 and the logic for handling them is basically already handled in other abilities:
despair: handle it like a single target flare to use up mana before going into ice
xenoglossy: same use as foul, just single target. Potentially also can use if it’s available and you would use scathe when moving.
umbral soul: use it out of combat to keep up umbral ice

I am curious if you’re planning on implementing the ‘No Blizzard 4 Opener’ that seems to be the current meta opener for level 80 black mage. I realize the miqo team is doing a lot of combat system reworking, so it’s definitely not a priority, was just curious.

Thanks for all your hard work!

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