Why does Enochian have to be a pain in the neck?

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Originally Posted by Bishop81

Really? So I can just ignore the ability?

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No but you're not locked out of your main abilities when its not up are you?

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Originally Posted by hallena

No but you're not locked out of your main abilities when its not up are you?

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Ruin III is unusable unless you want to OOM yourself after 5 casts. Deathflare doesn't work.

No Enochian only locks out Fire IV and Blizzard IV yes?

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Originally Posted by Bishop81

No Enochian only locks out Fire IV and Blizzard IV yes?

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Yes which just so happen to be 80% of your damage on the parser

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Originally Posted by hallena

Yes which just so happen to be 80% of your damage on the parser

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Well, not sure how much Ruin III (@ 120 potency * 110% = 132 potency; 5x in 15 secs taking into account lag) and Deathflare (@400 * 110% = 440), both once a minute, ends up on parses.

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Originally Posted by Bishop81

Well, not sure how much Ruin III (@ 120 potency * 110% = 132 potency; 5x in 15 secs taking into account lag) and Deathflare (@400 * 110% = 440), both once a minute, ends up on parses.

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here's the thing.
Your damage come from miasma. Bio, Bio II, Ruin I/III, Your pet, Fester. Each doing a good portion of your damage
Enochian is meant to be up 100% of the time while dreadwyrm trance is up 15s per minutes.
BLm's damage come mostly from fire IV. Fire IV is spammable with a potency of 504 (not counting trait and 5% enochian bonus) you take fire IV away, guess what happen

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Originally Posted by hallena

here's the thing.
Your damage come from miasma. Bio, Bio II, Ruin I/III, Your pet, Fester. Each doing a good portion of your damage
BLm's damage come mostly from fire IV. Fire IV is spammable with a potency of 504 (not counting trait and 5% enochian bonus) you take fire IV away, guess what happen

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So technically it's not the mechanic that is cumbersome - because for most part it seem a ton simpler than Trance. Your primary complaint is that way too much damage is loaded onto it.

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Originally Posted by Bishop81

So technically it's not the mechanic that is cumbersome - because for most part it seem a ton simpler than Trance. Your primary complaint is that way too much damage is loaded onto it.

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My complain is enochian is a pain in the ass to keep up sometime because of mechanic and sometime because of RNG(im looking at you mana tick timer/random targeted aoes) You need 5.5 seconds of uninterupted cast time to refresh the dam thing. Each refresh giving you less and less time. If blizzard IV was instan cast, This wouldnt be a problem

is there any BLM out there able to keep up Enochian 95% of the time and High DPS (ie not dropping skills and using Enochian to the fullest) during waukkeon fight?
I normal have to resort to the 2.0 BLM rotation for speed and move ability

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Originally Posted by hallena

My complain is enochian is a pain in the ass to keep up sometime because of mechanic and sometime because of RNG(im looking at you mana tick timer/random targeted aoes) You need 5.5 seconds of uninterupted cast time to refresh the dam thing. Each refresh giving you less and less time. If blizzard IV was instan cast, This wouldnt be a problem

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Isn't it instant cast on a 60 sec CD lasting 30 secs?

Edit: Ah ... you can extend it with Blizzard IV. I see.

I hit 60 two days ago and am actually really enjoying the challenge the new rotation offers. Is it harder due to mechanics? Yes it is, but therein lies the challenge. It feels so good when I get in a sticky situation and somehow manage to keep enochian up!
I'm by no means a master at it yet and lose enochian more times than I keep it, but I can see it working once I get the muscle memory and rotation down.

For now I've been concentrating more on the enochian part then the rotation as a whole and adding bits of the rotation in as I go.

I also changed my crossbar (ps4 player) quite a bit. Took a day to get used to that, but it really helped.

For now, I'm enjoying BLM more than I did in 2.0 to be honest.