The Black Mage Rotations

[Xisin]

I've seen mention of these changed mana ticks ever since 2.1 dropped, but I've never noticed them myself. Can you elaborate on what's changed with the mana ticks specifically since 2.1? The only difference I saw was mana ticks being missed because of the delay in the application of Umbral Ice, and not so much a change to mana ticks themselves.

In 2.0 the ice to fire phase was fairly seamless with perks, you never really had to wait out an interval of time or use filler... it just transitioned cleanly into Af everytime w/o fail. A better perk to th 2.0 ice phase was that the first fire (if buffered after fire 3) got the benefit of umbral ice 3 casting speed (like 1.6ish seconds on a fire) with all the potency of an AF3 cast. in 2.1 they changed how ice/fire phases worked via when the buff was applied, the last tick of ice was essentially removed if you just didn't stop casting during the ice phase, this is when the filler spell practice started.