BLM Fire II incredibly lack luster

[Taemek]

Your example is flawed because it would be 3x3333 HP mobs for AoE.

You're looking at the ST DPS of an AoE skill, and I still can't believe you're repeating that. It's (ST DPS of an AoE Skill)x3.

320 kills faster than 307. Still haven't explained where you got 350 from.


Or you can do 10,000x3. AoE will still kill it faster.

This right here clearly tells us you don't understand. Let me spell this out, one more time.

AoE - 10'000hp divide 106.6 dps per mob = 93.8 seconds.

It matters not how many mobs are in an AoE encounter or HP. What matters here is that you know there is 10k hp and at 320 DPS AoE it equals 106.6dps per mob which means the encounter is lasting 93.8 seconds in total to kill ALL 3 MOBS!!!! You can put 10 mobs in here at 10k hp and guess what, the encounter still lasts 93.8 seconds.

There is 3 mobs in the encounter, you do not spilt their hp by a third because there is 3. 3 mobs at 10k hp each = 3 mobs with 10k hp. It does not equal 3 mobs with 3333hp. I don't know how you even come up with that.....320 AoE DPS does not equal 320 dps per mob in the encounter.


ST - **I must stress here these values in this thread is a very vague rotation used to accomplish this DPS value. ST would be more like in the 320+ range as per this post here**

10'000hp divide 350 dps per mob = 28.5 seconds.
x 2 mobs = 57 seconds
x 3 mobs = 85.5 seconds
x 4 mobs = 114 seconds = Break point at which AoEing becomes viable.

Now this is where you seem to be getting confused. AoEing is simply not viable until there is 5 mobs in an encounter because your single target DPS is simply greater then that of your single target AoE dps on the encounter and at anything under 4 mobs, you can kill them faster then AoEing can. Now I can already tell you are going to further misunderstand this.

If you can't wrap your head around something this trivial, I can't help you any further.