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[Sleigh]

Hey can anyone answer my question?
In dungeons where accuracy is not really
a concern, what wrist item would give me
the most DPS? the true ice bracelet or
one of the i130 ones? For burning bosses
down the fast and such.

Basically if an item has ACC, the other item of its equivalent iLVL will be more DPS. You should have different sets for different fights, including zero ACC, 470 for T9/T10, etc. There is no universally best set.

[Sleigh]

My bad. Yeah the i120 Shiva bracelet is slightly higher DPS than tome i130 in no ACC builds.

[Skeith-Adeline]

So, I bowed out of my Static, so it'll take a few more weeks for me to get back into T13. Should I persue the Poetics pants or should I craft some? Would keeping my HA breeches be an even better option?

[Aikaal]

So, I bowed out of my Static, so it'll take a few more weeks for me to get back into T13. Should I persue the Poetics pants or should I craft some? Would keeping my HA breeches be an even better option?

Do you need accuracy? If not, they aren't worth. If you can compensate then yes they are worth. If you have a Lilith Rod, you could always try the 6 fires rotation if you'd like. The pants cap at 22 piety and they have good accuracy and speed (Opinion from a crazed spd blm)

[Skeith-Adeline]

I'm kinda still doubtful with mixing my entire gear for a Fire 6 rotation haha. I'll stick with the HA breeches atm.
How are the Poetics pants?

[Sleigh]

I'm kinda still doubtful with mixing my entire gear for a Fire 6 rotation haha. I'll stick with the HA breeches atm.
How are the Poetics pants?

Basically one of the last things to upgrade from i110 for BLM. I've got full left-side i130 except pants and I'm considering getting i120s to upgrade to side-grade i130 instead.

[Akariel]

Is there like a minimum spellspeed in endgame that BLMs must reach for them to be of any use? Asking this because I main SMN and I have a BLM. The BLM doesn't have its own armour/accessories and borrows everything from the SMN, resulting in crap spellspeed. I don't have time to gear it up separately as of now.

I'm not planning to use it in coil but I'm thinking if it will be of any use even in dungeons (given poor handling as well since I haven't gotten fully used to playing it yet).

[Psycofang]

Also I personally like to ask where I should be aiming my ss and piety.

Currently my piety us at 296 no bonuses and ss will be around 562.

This discussion about the 6 fire rotation intrigued me enough to try. With hq pineapple juice and a scholar i can reach a full 6 fire rotation that includes thunder 3.

Im wondering what's an optimal Rotation to go by?

For example when everything's set ill have 4215 mp

My boss rotation starts off as B3-timed T3(so ill have full mp after T3 is launched)-F3-fire1 x 6-B3-B1-T2-F3-repeat

If i get 2 or more fire starter procs I throw on a thunder 1 before my dot drops and continue.

As a seeker of the moon what base piety should I reach for? Ss? Crit and det?

This is using the lilith rod that's full crit and SS

[PuroStrider]

Updated 'Spell Rotation' Page with new PIE requirements

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No more BLM math for today. Sorry folks.

[mayonnegg]

I've never really been sure, is it good or bad to do a slowcast or swiftcast flare on 2 targets at the end of a normal rotation if you then need to transpose? (eg. T10 adds.) Currently I've beeb doing it with swiftcast but not without.