FFXIV Guide to Black Mage For Hot/Cool Babes -- Part 2: Movement

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Did you get yourself into Black Mage in Final Fantasy 14 , and keep dying because you don’t know how the heck to work with your abilities while dodging attacks? Cool, then welcome to part two of my guide on being a Black Mage! (Be sure to check outPart 1 of our Black Mage Guide first! Today we’re going over how the heck to manage the most infamous part of the class, which is simply moving around as a Black Mage. 

Yes, of course this deserves a whole article here on MMORPG.com. Black Mage has earned its reputation in FFXIV as the class that simply does not want to move, and for good reason. With long cast times required to pull off attacks, it’s easy to get cranky about having to take a few steps at the cost of uptime, and uptime is the be-all end-all of any FFXIV class, especially since BLM maintains damage boosts through maintained uptime. 

This is not a guide on how to skip cast times altogether, or to suddenly have the mobility of a ranged DPS class. The opposite, even: it’s a guide on how to maintain damage despite lacking that mobility. There’s no single magic trick! It’s a series of techniques that frankly requires a lot of practice and getting used to. But once you manage, Black Mage continues to be one of the most respectable classes out there. 

We went over the fundamentals of Black Mage in the prior parts, of course; but while you may know your Fire IVs from your Flares, having a deeper understanding of what you have at each interval of gameplay will help you know what you need to adapt. 

For example, starting in Endwalker, the best part of your toolkit for movement and maintaining your uptime and Enochian is available pretty early on. Level 1 grants you Aspect Mastery, which makes it so spells of the