Black Mage Rotation Theory

[HoroBoro]

Concerns:

If you raging strikes on your first fire cycle, you WILL pull aggro if you get any procs at all.

Why no double flare with a fire 1 and a potential fire-starter proc?

Why no ether flares?

Why not blizz 1 instead of scathe?

Still unconvinced that transpose into firestarter is better than breaking/holding blizz 3. You lose a quick fire 1 cast.

[KrayZee]

Concerns:

Why not blizz 1 instead of scathe?

we can easily calculate whether scathe or blizz one is better

B1 = 150 Potency
Scathe = 120 Potency + 120*1/5 = 144

if you don't have to move, never ever use scathe DPS wise

Still unconvinced that transpose into firestarter is better than breaking/holding blizz 3. You lose a quick fire 1 cast.

I made the effort to test that, not 100 accurate but it should give away the correct answer

Transpose + Fire3(firestarter)= 690 -748 dmg range with my equipment = 719 avg.
Fire1 + Fire3 (firestarter) = 237-252 + 489-550 = 245 + 519 = 764

you lose 79 mana due to fire 1 though, but it didn't matter I was able to cast thunder 2 , in fact transpose would've ruined my second UI3 tick and the casting time of fire1 (even though its really fast) was enough to fill up my mana to 100%
though having said that, it's "luck" whether I end up with ~400 mana after my AF3->UI3 switch or with ~235, I don't know how I can force it to always happen, except for going like 15 piety or something

for the double/tripple flare part, I wonder if its worth it or not, hardcasting flare always feels like a pain in the ass and I hate to rely on the first transpose tick.


btw, is it possible to always cast 5 fire1 during your AF phase? because my rotation seems kinda off from time to time even though I'm not doing anything out of order
sometimes I have around ~1100 Mana after my 4th Fire1 and sometimes only 952, 952 will force me to cast Thunder1 if I cast another fire, ~1100 will allow me to do Thunder 2
is passive regeneration doing this?