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    Hitome's Avatar
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    Ul'dah
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    Hito Yu
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    Midgardsormr
    Main Class
    Pugilist Lv 50
    The thing with BLM is there is a huge difference between a mediocre BLM and a good BLM.

    Let's take Titan Ex for example where many in this thread say BLM is terrible.

    A good BLM does the following:

    -Stays away from grouping near people pre-heart to avoid landslide which causes you to interrupt casts
    -Uses aetherial manipulation to get to the group when Titan jumps
    -Immediately switches to the far gaol as soon as the first one dies which is a DPS increase for only the ranged class since melee have to wait for upheavel to touch it
    -Uses manawall to negate the need to move on tri-landslide
    -Uses aetherial manipulation to get out of the half arena bomb so little movement is needed (cast till bombs are about to blow up > AM to party member > dodge landslide and keep casting
    -Saves procs when he knows he needs to move
    -Uses 'slide' to maximize damage for appropriate positioning and so that you work with the GCD timer (meaning you are always casting even if it looks like you're moving)
    -Uses manaward on tumults or bombs or geocrushes
    -Uses raging strikes at the appropriate time during heart phase. The appropriate time is the lull in the battle you have till Titan summons his circular bombs
    -Delivers insane burst damage to the two adds via flare
    -Gets a firestarter proc before the two gaols are set up so that he may flare the first gaol on Titan and fire 3 the other that the healer is often in in the back
    -Uses sprint every chance he gets on plumes so that you can instantly get to a safe spot and start casting while your GCD timer is ticking
    -Uses manawall to negate the X bomb landslide (and possibly manaward to negate the bomb damage) so that you can constantly damage the adds without interruption
    -Uses quelling when adds spawn
    -Multidots thunder when appropriate to increase probability of thundercloud procs (this has useful applications outside of Titan Ex like on Caduceus)
    -Abuses the hell out of sprint + manaward/manawall to get into position before anyone else in the group can while taking minimum damage

    And, of course, using eye and virus when appropriate.

    Slide is actually the most important. This means that, when your spell goes off and you know you have to move, you are 'sliding' into a position where you intend to be after GCD has been invoked. This means the decrease in damage due to movement is minimized (quite a bit on Titan Ex, actually) because you can't cast a spell if the GCD timer hasn't run its full duration anyways.

    Know how many BLMs I've come across who do any of this? 1. Betcha Amon could give you some more tips.
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    Last edited by Hitome; 01-27-2014 at 08:15 PM.