Black Mage (BLM) is a turret that's heavily reliant on keeping your rotations up. It's a lot of fun but can also frustating as you can't cast and move in most situations so positioning is very important.
Early on you won't need to move around too much if your tank is half decent so you should be fine. As you progress you'll need to dodge more but you'll get a few tools in your kit to help with that.
You'll have two states, Astral Fire and Umbral Ice, which you'll need to manage swapping between. Astral Fire increases your damage but you'll regenerate no MP. Umbral Ice will regen MP but is weaker. Each state has three tiers with each tier granting a bigger buff to damage/MP regen respectively. Casting a spell of the opposite state you're in will cancel you out of it, meaning you'll need to start over. It's not a huge deal, but you won't be optimizing your damage. Like movement you'll unlock a few tricks to keep your stacks up as you level.
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Once you can, give Summoner (SMN) a try. It's another magic DPS but is far more mobile than BLM. It also levels with Scholar (SCH) so you'll be getting a DPS and healer for the price of one. SMN shares gear with BLM too, so you went need to be grinding for two sets if you check it out.
Also, side note, people use the class abbreviations a lot so it helps to know 'em.
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Don’t forget about using Transpose to switch between the two Astral states and keeping Thunder up when possible too. At level 26 my rotation tends to be: Thunder Fire I Fire II Fire II Transpose Blizzard Blizzard Transpose Start from Fire II and do that three times You almost run out of MP by the first Transpose and have it all back by the second. I’m no expert on this so if you have an better suggestions I’m all ears :)
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Honestly, it's been so lonce since I've been in a situation where I've had fire 2 but not freeze. Should be able to get more than two fire 2s out though, no? It's 2000mp and you have 10,000.
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[quote]Honestly, it's been so lonce since I've been in a situation where I've had fire 2 but not freeze. Should be able to get more than two fire 2s out though, no? It's 2000mp and you have 10,000.[/quote] You know it might be three and I’ve got my math wrong on it