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. [b] [/b] 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.