Black Mage Sanctuary - A Guide to DPS

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Originally Posted by RLofOBFL

So I have 920 Crit & 1150(2.20 GCD) SS but in the SSS dummy place I rarely ever crit. Like I'm lucky if I get 2 Fire IV crits the entire 3 minutes & my dps heavily suffers for it.

So I am wondering if I should swap some SS with Crit & what would be a good number of SS if so?

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Isn't that the reason why SS is preferred over crit on BLM?

You can have 30% crit chance as BLM but it's not going to amount to much DPS if it all happened during Umbral ice.
With SS you are at least be able to cast faster and thus guaranteed higher dps.

Hey guys =)
So with the new Proto Ultima Stuff I tried a little bit around and I'm aiming for this build right now: http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/ZDLB
What do you guys think about it? It's just 2-3 statweights below the "BiS" but got tons of Crit with it and you only need up to a10s xD

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Originally Posted by GnarShredder

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...n_live_letter/

Thoughts on this guys?

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Dunno how I feel about Thunder changes until I see what they are actually doing. Enochian as a passive instead of a active seems to dumb the job down a bit. But we'll see. Can't really make much of a judgement without all the info.

The thunder changes essentially mean nothing in the grand scheme of things. We don't use T2 at all. T1 is only used for the quick apply, then after that its all cloud procs anyways. Turning them all into one spell just gives us more space on our bars for (hopefully) other things. As with the Enochian changes, I agree we can't pass judgement on that to fast. I don't think it will "Dumb" our class down at all though, but it will lessen the gap between awful BLMS and good ones. If it turns out to be something along the lines of "Maintain the old 5% (or insert other % increase) damage buff of Enochian by performing it normally" then to me that is fine. Doing 5% more flat damage than other BLMs who don't keep Enochian up is enough for me.

I for one absolutely despise when mechanics during fights force me rely on my 2.0 rotation as to make sure I'll have FireIV access when I need it most.

So what is the actual new bis nowadays with relic and ultima jewels around? I've seen all kinds of things... Even saw a reddit thead which listed the new bis for all jobs, and the blm one had all ultima jewels equipped.. Can't find the thread anymore though. :(

I keep hearing about thunder changes and have not seen this mentioned in the post someone else had posted, only seen the enochian changes.
Sooo is it actually true they are removing T2 and T3 and rolling in in into thunder?
I seen people on reddit talking about the changes but none have provided an actually fully translated source.
Not sure either how i feel about enochian change, i rather like it how it is even if frustrating at times (lag makes it soo damn annoying, lol)

Bis while i do not have a source i would say is a mix of Augmented Shire Gear, Savage gear and Proto Ultima accesories.
Proto Ring and Proto Earrings are very good.

http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/Z7SM This is probably BiS

BiS is Diadem weaps now. i280 from a rare fate in diadem that may not pop. THen if u beat it your weap may not drop. But if it drops the stats may be dumb. But if they're average stats then they will blow your i275 weap out the water because +3 weapon damage. Yes....+3 weapon damage.

Yeah.... SE basically said screw you to all of us who have done our Relics or those who have farmed for Savage Weapons.
Even if the weapons have RNG to it in Diadem, that is how i fell anyhow

WD weighs like 12 each for BLM & 12 INT, so that's 48 total. For the Anima, 140 spell speed weighs 40, 140 crit weighs 35 for about 75 total so no actually the 280 does not outweigh the 275 unless it gets some kind of average secondaries, which it could not if rng is not on your side.