Letter to all bards about Mages Ballad

[Crevox]

With Mage's Ballad up BLM can spam Fire 3 > Flare > Blizzard 3 (repeat).

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You never spam Fire 3. It's not only because of the MP cost; you get no Firestarter procs and the cast speed is horrible on Fire 3. It's not good DPS.

[MartaDemireux]

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You never spam Fire 3. It's not only because of the MP cost; you get no Firestarter procs and the cast speed is horrible on Fire 3. It's not good DPS.

I'm saying you spam that string of spells, not Fire 3. Cast Fire 3 once to get Astral Fire, cast Flare for big damage, Ballad restores just enough MP to use Blizzard 3, cast Blizzard 3, cast Fire 3, cast Flare, etc.

In doing this you're increasing the amount of damage per GCD (233) as opposed to using Requiem and the "usual" AoE combo you see people using (~197 without or ~225 iirc with Requiem). It's super easy to maintain this combo (it's only 3 spells) and allows for the tank to spam Flash to no end and allows the WHM to Holy in between cures and never worry about MP. The 20% hit to the BRD is moot in comparison to the benefits.