Level 60 BLM rotation!

Hello guys :3 i hope everyone is enjoying heavensward!

So i'm finally level 60 ( even though i got early access, i just reached 60 yesterday lol )
Anyways so i got the new blm skills and because i'm a noob i use it randomly and i have no idea when to properly use them.

So can my fellow blm out there help me out? :3
I'm not doing The limitless blue extreme with a weak blm lol, so i hope i can get help to improve my DPS as well!

Thank you in advance <3

Wrong forum. Try posting in the dps role subforum or in this topic : http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ulator/page230

Thank you for pointing this out~
But i wanted a stright forward reply on this thread. :)

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Originally Posted by Etiken

Oh and get rid of your sig, nobody cares.

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Wow, that was gratuitous.

Mistakes happen, guys.

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Whelp... you got your straight forward reply.
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Oh and get rid of your sig, nobody cares.

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A horrible post. It's clear you have some strong personal issues to work through, but please do keep them to yourself. Nobody cares.

On topic, I really do wish I could help but my Black Mage is only 52, so it's got some ways to go before it caps out at 60. I do see a lot of Black Mage's making heavy use of Enochian and blasting out fire IV's and Blizzard IV's as much as they're able though. Seems to be the way Yoshi intended endgame Black Mage's to be.

Get the basic rotation flowing first and then from there you can start weaving in the Opener and when to blow your cooldowns. The BASIC rotation is Fire 3>Enochian>Fire4>Fire4>Fire1>Fire4>Fire4>Blizzard 3>Blizzard4> then repeat from Fire 3 (Remember you're going to have to cast Enochian again eventually but try to get the point where its off cooldown by the time you need to cast it again). Go to a target dummy and get this into muscle memory asap, then from there you can start working on what you want your opening rotation to be and when to blow your big cooldowns like Sharpcast, Raging strikes, convert etc. Its worth noting that Thunder seems to be mostly useless unless you lose Enochian because of boss mechanics (knocked back, stunned, tornado'd etc) and have to resort to your old rotation in 2.0.

Pretty much just get used to having to revert back to the 2.x rotation at a moment's notice if you have to move at all. A lot of the boss fights in Neverreap and Bismarck EX in particular can be hard to keep Enochian up for too long IMHO.

Its not that the new rotation isn't challenging, its just that its kind of exhausting. I wish Enochian wouldn't slowly decrease its maximum timer, makes it impossible to keep it going forever, which I guess might be the intent overall? Just try to keep it up for at least 20-30 seconds so you can repop it manually? Who knows.

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Originally Posted by Chek

Pretty much just get used to having to revert back to the 2.x rotation at a moment's notice if you have to move at all. A lot of the boss fights in Neverreap and Bismarck EX in particular can be hard to keep Enochian up for too long IMHO.

Its not that the new rotation isn't challenging, its just that its kind of exhausting. I wish Enochian wouldn't slowly decrease its maximum timer, makes it impossible to keep it going forever, which I guess might be the intent overall? Just try to keep it up for at least 20-30 seconds so you can repop it manually? Who knows.

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To be fair, if you could keep Enochian going forever, You wouldn't use anything but Fire/Blizzard IV and III.
Enochian added in a layer of complexity to the otherwise stagnant BLM rotation, which seems to be a running theme with all the new job skills.

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Originally Posted by SRTtoZ

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This is how I thought the rotation was when I read tooltips. (Im still lvl 50 blm)
And now that Ive played with a few blms , none of them follows this rotation.

So I was confused if I understood the skills wrong. Im sure you are right though and the DF blms just dont know how to play it.

SRTtoZ

Thank you so much for the help!

I kind of follow this rotation. I start with the normal rotation then i use Enochain with Fire/Blizzard IV at the end.
I also try to keep Enochain going as long as possible by using Blizzard IV at the beginning since it increases Enochain's timer.

What a chaos xD i will switch it up and follow what you said :3
Thank you again~

Chek

Thank you so much the help!

I totally agree! I'm currently doing Neverreap and its really hard to do proper damage especially to the final boss xD
All party members are flying and can't do any proper damage so i move a lot. But i try to cast Enochain anyways.

I actually use Blizzard IV to increase Enochain's timer but its still not that long orz.

Thank you again~

Sorry about the jerk, what's to say you even knew that forum existed anyhow...

I did check over there yesterday and counted three threads filled with people panicking, and I am very inclined to do the same. This new rotation reduces our mobility even more and they've added more aoes to every fight. Playing my job has become exhausting and definitely not fun. Just about every boss fight has me cussing at some point because some dumb mechanic will interrupt my cast or three aoes will suddenly land on me at a crucial point in my rotation (although frankly with as ridiculously tight it is now every point is crucial.) Some unavoidable mechanic makes you lose Enochian? Get ready to have your dps drop by about 40%! For 30 seconds!

I spent a couple hours figuring out how to remap my gimpy keyboard's F keys so that I could stick my 2.0 rotation on them since it looks like we're expected to completely shift back to it when enochian is down. If you play on pc you might consider doing the same.

I enjoy a challenge but this is just miserable. I spend the whole fight staring at my timers, dodging aoe out of my peripherals, and alternately pleading with my spells and cursing at them.

So I was having a fun time reading this tread, it amused me to see people point you in the direction of the place with all the answers (DPS subfourm) and just have you casually ignore that advice. However the last 2 post from the op are absolutely too ridiculous for me to not comment on.

You should NEVER start a rotation using bliz 4 it DOES NOT extend Enochian.

What it does do is SET the remaining time on the buff to 5 seconds less that what it was when it was last refreshed. Meaning the first time you use bliz 4 it goes to 25 sec then 20 then next time then 15 and so on.

Using bliz 4 at the beginning of a rotation is probably the WORST place you could ever use it. I don't even think i could make up fake BLM advice that would do more harm to your DPS than this idea.

Unless i misunderstood what you were trying to say and that's what you were doing. If that's the case disregard this rant.

Also IMO playing BLM is the same as it always has been progression is tough and once you have a fight down and know when to move and when not too your dps shines. It hasn't really changed all that much, also i like seeing 10k+ dmg crits in ravahna.

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Originally Posted by Archulak

So I was having a fun time reading this tread, it amused me to see people point you in the direction of the place with all the answers (DPS subfourm) and just have you casually ignore that advice. However the last 2 post from the op are absolutely too ridiculous for me to not comment on.

You should NEVER start a rotation using bliz 4 it DOES NOT extend Enochian.

What it does do is SET the remaining time on the buff to 5 seconds less that what it was when it was last refreshed. Meaning the first time you use bliz 4 it goes to 25 sec then 20 then next time then 15 and so on.

Using bliz 4 at the beginning of a rotation is probably the WORST place you could ever use it. I don't even think i could make up fake BLM advice that would do more harm to your DPS than this idea.

Also IMO playing BLM is the same as it always has been progression is tough and once you have a fight down and know when to move and when not too your dps shines. It hasn't really changed all that much, also i like seeing 10k+ dmg crits in ravahna.

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Well, it looks like OP had a big misunderstanding of Enochian's skill description. Something like that happens from time to time, so it's a good thing we have the community to answer questions like these. There's no need to make fun of someone who isn't aware of all new things yet, nobody is perfect :)
I see your point, of course, but it seems like OP is having a hard time with the added skills - and so do many other BLMs I have recently talked to.

I think it'll need some time until every mage got used to our new rotation since it's a big change from what we had before.

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Originally Posted by Etiken

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Ignore this post OP, trash at its finest.

Sorry for being mean. There is no excuse for taking it out on anybody but I honestly had a bad day at work and was definitely not being myself.
So for what it's worth, I truly am sorry.