So what our Blm true numbers.

[Zamii]

my guess is they have 2 bards in group that are rotating through foes a lot of the time, which with an i110 wep would be prety easy to pull to 350-400 dps on a blm
with int pots, auto hits, poison pots, etc, the dps all adds up rather quickly

[ZeroAmano]

my guess is they have 2 bards in group that are rotating through foes a lot of the time, which with an i110 wep would be prety easy to pull to 350-400 dps on a blm
with int pots, auto hits, poison pots, etc, the dps all adds up rather quickly

ilv96 with ilv95 allagan stuff and pot and food i pulled 310 in T8 and our BARD doesn't FOE. I don't even use poison pot.
So if add FOE. I would be able to pull 350 if my RNG is good. 400 isn't a mystery if you know what you are doing with your GEAR and ROTATION and...LUCK
Because I could pull 320+ at dummy if I'm lucky with my RNG that doesn't killing my dps.
Oh and my avg dps is around 290.

[Zencurse]

ilv96 with ilv95 allagan stuff and pot and food i pulled 310 in T8 and our BARD doesn't FOE. I don't even use poison pot.
So if add FOE. I would be able to pull 350 if my RNG is good. 400 isn't a mystery if you know what you are doing with your GEAR and ROTATION and...LUCK
Because I could pull 320+ at dummy if I'm lucky with my RNG that doesn't killing my dps.
Oh and my avg dps is around 290.

I'm ilvl 100 with the 110 staff, our bard foes at the beginning of the fight and momentarily at the end of the fight (So rather sparingly, we get approx. 30 seconds of it) and I do 340-370 (RNG dependent). So yes, if I had foes the whole time I could easily see 400. But again, the point is Black Mages have a lot of RNG and foes req dependency to pull those kinds of numbers and in attempting to answer the OPs question I'd say you'd have to consider what the black mage player means by "400 dps" to be a combination of luck, at least mild skill, the fight itself, and consider the bards role. Not their, testing on the dummy dps.

[ZeroAmano]

I'm ilvl 100 with the 110 staff, our bard foes at the beginning of the fight and momentarily at the end of the fight (So rather sparingly, we get approx. 30 seconds of it) and I do 340-370 (RNG dependent). So yes, if I had foes the whole time I could easily see 400. But again, the point is Black Mages have a lot of RNG and foes req dependency to pull those kinds of numbers and in attempting to answer the OPs question I'd say you'd have to consider what the black mage player means by "400 dps" to be a combination of luck, at least mild skill, the fight itself, and consider the bards role. Not their, testing on the dummy dps.

Yeah.
Puro Strider's Info is truth. "Skill=Luck">WD>INT>DET>Crit=SS. Do not follow the PERFECT WORLD SETTING.
IT WILL ONLY KILL YOUR DPS. That's how i increase my dps after I found DET is so important. Sadly I used my ToS too faster and went wrong setting. Have to take 2 weeks to get it back.
Hope I would won allagan stone at T7 so i will be able to pull 350+ easily. But losing 4 point to a SMN :/

[Aikaal]

This is just me. I think T8 is a terrible way to see if a BLM is good. T8 is basically a dummy fight. The only thing it proves is if you pull 350-380 DPS with iLevel around 96-98, you know your rotation. I've seen Monks doing 440+ constant DPS because it's a dummy fight...

What will you do to keep your numbers high on T9 which require a lot of movements? That fight, like Titan EX is those kind of fights you can brag for having high numbers.

Yeah.
Puro Strider's Info is truth. "Skill=Luck">WD>INT>DET>Crit=SS. Do not follow the PERFECT WORLD SETTING.

Keep dreaming good Sir