Black Mage Novus

[HaroldSaxon]

The "hard facts" that were "calculated" do not take into account many factors that come into play in real world situations.

While the stat weights *may* be correct for a perfect rotation on a stationary object, they won't be the same for each encounter.

I'm also using an i110 weapon (UAT) and for coil also have 1 bard with Foes at the start.

T6 - I've done 420, but average about 410.
T7 - Like you say, it's useless for comparison, due to forced dps stops.
T8 - I've done 444, but average around 435-440
T9 - Last kill I was on 381, but did have paralyse at 1 point during the final phase, as someone messed up a thunder xD

So the dps is pretty similar, yet I'm using what is in your opinion a poorer rotation, poorer build and weaker accessories. (I do agree the crafted gears can be nice with crazy melds, but imo not worth the gil over i110)

I know, I tried to say hello and welcome you to Odin, but my PM seemed to be ignored xD

I must have missed it when you originally sent it but caught you last night! I have /tells on a different tab with no noise due to gil spammers. On faerie at least, materia was a lot cheaper over there when I did it, but if you meld in the right order, it isn't too expensive.

I honestly think a better player than me would do more with my gearset. I still don't feel that i'm anywhere near the best BLM I can be, and its what keeps me going in the game. I've not spent as much time as I've wanted in T8/9 because I had raid group issues and was away, but I expect that to change now with my new group. If I can get the chestpiece and legs, I can see myself breaking 450 in T8, T9 its hard to say because of all the breaks, and again, i've been in there once (properly, did some messing around on Phase 1 when I first unlocked it).

Don't get me wrong, the i110 stuff is nice, but unfortunately most of them are either main stat crit or main stat det, which given that those are weighted the bottom two, its annoying. It limits people that want to run spellspeed to running crafted pieces; i'd certainly be using a lot of the ST set if it was upgradable to i110 (which is a massive error on their part imo).

[scarebearz]

I must have missed it when you originally sent it but caught you last night! I have /tells on a different tab with no noise due to gil spammers. On faerie at least, materia was a lot cheaper over there when I did it, but if you meld in the right order, it isn't too expensive.

Explains that xD Seemed odd as you were still moving around as I pm'd

The gil seller spam (on Odin at least), is nowhere near as bad as it used to be.

Materia prices on Odin... O.o lol, I could afford it, but just not a justifiable gain in my opinion.

@Numenor - To be fair Harold comes across much harsher on the forums than he actually does in game ;D Seems a decent guy to me and does sound like he knows how to play BLM to a decent level.

Don't get me wrong, the i110 stuff is nice, but unfortunately most of them are either main stat crit or main stat det, which given that those are weighted the bottom two, its annoying. It limits people that want to run spellspeed to running crafted pieces; i'd certainly be using a lot of the ST set if it was upgradable to i110 (which is a massive error on their part imo).

My main argument is that different builds suit different types of player and different encounters better than others, regardless of what puro's maths says should be the best dps under perfect conditions.

I don't really think the 3 offstats differ enough to worry about it too much tbh. xD