Black Mage Sanctuary - A Guide to DPS

Blizzard spells get reduced cast-time on AF3, Fire spells get reduced cast-time on UI3. The cast times are reduced by half.

You can't cast Fire4 on UI3 nor can you cast Blizz4 on AF3. Although if you highlight their tooltip they'll show reduced cast times.

It seems some of the highest, including the current highest BLM Susano parses on fflogs are omitting Blizzard 4 from their rotation and only using it during opener.

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Originally Posted by Rakhabit

It seems some of the highest, including the current highest BLM Susano parses on fflogs are omitting Blizzard 4 from their rotation and only using it during opener.

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Oh? Its understandable considering it becomes a waste if you cant net all of the bonus f4s which susano generally deters you from doing.

This is quite possibly the same thing as the optimal drg rotation leaving out WT/FC on certain cycles

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Originally Posted by Rakhabit

It seems some of the highest, including the current highest BLM Susano parses on fflogs are omitting Blizzard 4 from their rotation and only using it during opener.

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Yea I admit I've been doing that. I still use Blizzard 4 but only in the same way we used Blizzard 1 in 2.0, basically a filler spell if I need something to cast waiting on an umbral ice tick.

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Originally Posted by Rakhabit

It seems some of the highest, including the current highest BLM Susano parses on fflogs are omitting Blizzard 4 from their rotation and only using it during opener.

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Yup it's a thing. You know something is not right in the design when you can skip one of the core new mechanics of the job (Umbral Hearts) and still do good numbers. Far less punishing AF timers and more wriggle room for procs.

Funny how a key feature is yet again broken on blm. What a silly day this is.

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Originally Posted by Psycofang

Funny how a key feature is yet again broken on blm. What a silly day this is.

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Silly day? SE haven't cared about the original casters for the past 18 months. Its nothing new. And nothing will change.

And Blm can't get any spots in any raid statics either anymore, it's "go rdm or f...k off", at least as Smn you can promise to use the pet the party wants for their buffs

blm at 70 is actually fun, but they made the new classes Rdm and Sam so OP, and gave EVERY other dps some sort of dps buff, except blm

The game has imo more serious balancing problems than before, not only for Blm.

Been testing the UH every rotation vs UH on opener only on the susano sss dummy and (anecdotally) its not looking good for UH heavy play styles and its falling behind.

If you consider practical settings this is only going to translate badly for UH.

Wow...just wow...
I feel like an idiot not thinking about doing my rotation without UH. Then again, PS4 players still can't see their own numbers.