The Ultimate Black Mage Resources with Damage Calculator

[Empressia]

no u just select and click ur gear on ffxiv.ariyala.com easy peasy

[HaroldSaxon]

@Puro
Had time to look at Fire Weaving

In the calculator, would it be possible to implement a DPS change column for overall fire weaving (assuming perfect RNG of course). Would be:

("DPS Decrease from fail"*0.6)+("Dps increase from non crit success"*(0.4-(0.4*"Crit Hit Rate"))+("Dps increase from crit success"*(0.4*Crit Hit Rate)

or in your calculator page for the first rotation

("G53"*0.6)+("G54"*(0.4-G56)+("G55"*(G56)

[YanderePrincess]

Shouldn't the very last part of that be (0.4*Crithitrate)?

[HaroldSaxon]

Shouldn't the very last part of that be (0.4*Crithitrate)?

Yeah, that! Thanks for spotting the typo.

[Ace_S]

I got this different method from talking to another blm regarding fire weaving.

He casts Blizzard III after the standard fire rotation and if he "sees" a fire proc during his Blizzard III cast, he'll jump to interrupt Blizzard III and immediately use the fire proc, then back into Blizzard III rotation.

His argument is that fire weaving creates a loss in dps compared to interrupting Blizzard III to use the proc because
1. The weaved spells do no damage
2. If there is no proc after the weave (60% of the time), the weaved time was wasted.

Whereas in his case,
1. If there is no proc during Blizzard III cast, proceed normally.
2. If there is a proc during Blizzard III cast, jump to interrupt and cast fire proc.

Thoughts?

[LetBloodline]

You waste too much time like that in my opinion. Counting that it's not that bad to have a firestarter proc avaiable (for some races it' sa hope actwally) wasting that much time is meh

[YanderePrincess]

You waste too much time like that in my opinion. Counting that it's not that bad to have a firestarter proc avaiable (for some races it' sa hope actwally) wasting that much time is meh

Actually, in practice, you probably aren't wasting anymore time than with the "fireweaving idea" when there is a firestarter proc. And, you're wasting no time at all when there is no firestarter proc, while with the 'fireweaving' idea, you're wasting .5s minimum everytime there's no proc (which is 60% of the time).

[LetBloodline]

Actually, in practice, you probably aren't wasting anymore time than with the "fireweaving idea" when there is a firestarter proc. And, you're wasting no time at all when there is no firestarter proc, while with the 'fireweaving' idea, you're wasting .5s minimum everytime there's no proc (which is 60% of the time).

Unless I'm missing something you waste time interrupting. You can't cast right off or I'm missed something?

[YanderePrincess]

Unless I'm missing something you waste time interrupting. You can't cast right off or I'm missed something?

You can start casting the moment you interrupt. The only real delay in it is if you interrupt by moving, you have to stop moving, but it takes just a slight tap of the movement key to interrupt, so that's a negligible delay. In practice, your reaction speed increases the overall delay, but the same is true for the fireweaving idea because you have to take the time to process whether you got a proc or not. And, as I said, there's no delay with the interruption idea if you don't get a proc since you just keep casting as normal, so even if you're wasting a bit more time on the interrupts, it would be counterbalanced by the times you don't have to interrupt (which exceed the times you have to interrupt).

[YanderePrincess]

Okay, so at the moment, my gear is http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/NI40

I just got the laevateinn, which puts my acc at 500, way higher than I need. I was using the Scylla's Culottes because, before I got Laevateinn, that put me just slightly above the acc requirement for T6-7 (and I swap in Scylla Robe for T8+), but now I'm wondering if the determination on the Weathered Evanstar Tights would be better than the SS on the Scylla's Culottes, since it's 27 det vs 26 SS and the accuracy difference is now irrelevant.