BLM

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Originally Posted by Darkguardian

hey i am new to the game and made a THM so i can make a BLM but my question is the extra attribute points i get after lvl 10 in what stat should i spend them.

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Everything into Int.

Just unlocked BLM quest. 30 THM / 15 ARC

http://i.imgur.com/Sd9DsTX.jpg

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Originally Posted by Jibb1985

Just unlocked BLM quest. 30 THM / 15 ARC

http://i.imgur.com/Sd9DsTX.jpg

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wut?!? Why? That just...jeez...

Yeah, archer to 15 is a definite "wtf?", I would want to see the dev's reasoning behind it before I began screaming obscenities at the wind.

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Originally Posted by Fengor

Yeah, archer to 15 is a definite "wtf?", I would want to see the dev's reasoning behind it before I began screaming obscenities at the wind.

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Isn't that good? You get a 20% dmg buff and access to Straight Shot that gives 20% crit chance for 20 seconds. Isn't this good for DPS?

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Originally Posted by Coralfang

Isn't that good? You get a 20% dmg buff and access to Straight Shot that gives 20% crit chance for 20 seconds. Isn't this good for DPS?

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no straight shot for DoM. you get Raging Strikes (good), Hawk's Eye (useless if skill discription is correct) and Quelling Strikes (can be good)

I'm curious as to see what some of your skillbar setups are I'm looking to get a good natural setup going and need some ideas

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Originally Posted by Starkbeaumont

no straight shot for DoM. you get Raging Strikes (good), Hawk's Eye (useless if skill discription is correct) and Quelling Strikes (can be good)

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Oh, no straight shot is really a shame.

In p3 I did an in depth analysis on THM/BLM and posted it in general (it was called BLM testing and analysis).

There were 2 types of rotations and they had the same output. The difference between them was:
-... Blizzard 3 > Thunder 3 ...
-... Transpose > Thunder 3 > Thunder 2 ...

Now since you can only use one thunder at a time(and so thunder 2 is useless), it seems that Blizzard 3 is the way to go. Transpose regen would be too slow now that you have nothing to fill the "gap".

The Blizzard 3 rotation goes like this:
Fire 3 > fire 1 until ~500mp > blizzard 3 > thunder 3 > (repeat)
You can start from thunder 3 if you want to.

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One last thing that I want to do is see if thunder is stronger than fire(they were about the same in p3). If it is, thunder would be the first spell to cast. Will edit results into here later

On average:
Fire I with Astral Fire III and considering Firestarter: 122.4 P/s (428.4 Potency, 3.5s)
Thunder III considering Thundercloud: 123.1 P/s (587 Potency, 4.77s)

Looks like they are around the same once again.

Seriously? Archer? What a waste it was leveling Arcanist to 10. I wish i could have used those quests for the job i actually need.