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[Sleigh]

You also need to take account we are talking about a T13 set. You spend 3 minutes using your AoE rotation. Spell Speed has no value in AoE. Crit does but it's nullified by the Det. But you gain 5 Int which is good in any situation.

This is correct but you have to consider what your goal is. If it's to take up as much of the add's HP for your own and get a great parse, definitely true. However those adds dying faster won't benefit the raid in any meaningful way, not in today's gear anyway.

When I consider sub-stats for T13 I consider what I want P1, P2, and P4.

[Aikaal]

This is correct but you have to consider what your goal is. If it's to take up as much of the add's HP for your own and get a great parse, definitely true. However those adds dying faster won't benefit the raid in any meaningful way, not in today's gear anyway.

When I consider sub-stats for T13 I consider what I want P1, P2, and P4.

Yeah but if you're at the pint you have too much DPS for the adds, you already beat the DPS check of T13 already :3 Sacrificing few spell speed won't hurt your overall DPS much at the end.

[Pyroclastic]

Which one of these 2 would give the highest dps in the long run? (10-14 min final coil fights)

1: Using HQ X int pots together with your raging strikes+convert combo.

or

2: NOT using the above but instead waiting for swiftcast to come off CD and using a swiftcast flare at around 400 mana + elixer/manapot + blizzard 3 while raging+convert are still in CD.

This is the only thing that I still don't quite know about BLM...

[Sleigh]

Which one of these 2 would give the highest dps in the long run? (10-14 min final coil fights)

1: Using HQ X int pots together with your raging strikes+convert combo.

or

2: NOT using the above but instead waiting for swiftcast to come off CD and using a swiftcast flare at around 400 mana + elixer/manapot + blizzard 3 while raging+convert are still in CD.

This is the only thing that I still don't quite know about BLM...

In the past I experimented with these two methods, going as far as doing the X-Ether method as my stock potion method for a while to test it. The difference wasn't large, I'd say it's a gamble on if you get a Firestarter off of your SC Flare to make it more gained DPS (less than 40% of the time, because sometimes you'll have a Firestarter going into your final Fire). Regardless of which on average gives you more DPS, the problems with using MP pot are you have to wait until at least 1m30s-ish to use it, and you have to have Swiftcast (sometimes you need it before then, or sometime in the near future).

However, now that Trick Attack exists, I find X-Pot of INT is stronger than ever and is the way to go in most fights now. You can get a whole lot of gained DPS in your opener under BV Foe's + TA + RS + pot, especially with some F3 or Flare crits. The exception is when actual AoE comes up within the first couple minutes, like Shiva, T5, or something like using your second pot for MP pot like in T13, using your second pot to Flare more - gotta plan for the fight, not one size fits all.

[Aikaal]

Which one of these 2 would give the highest dps in the long run? (10-14 min final coil fights)

1: Using HQ X int pots together with your raging strikes+convert combo.

or

2: NOT using the above but instead waiting for swiftcast to come off CD and using a swiftcast flare at around 400 mana + elixer/manapot + blizzard 3 while raging+convert are still in CD.

This is the only thing that I still don't quite know about BLM...

You should be using HQ Mega-Ethers instead of X-Ether. I personally use them only in big AoE phases like T13. Sometimes in T12 if CDs are there.

[Kraktur]

Hi everyone,

Would you be kind enough to point me some ways to improve my gear as I want to prepare for T10?
Here is what I'm currently using : http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/PQV5

I'm working on my relic, but I'm on the books stage.

[Skeith-Adeline]

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You have a boatload of Acc, more than required for T13.

Farm T9 for your weapon, pick up the Skirt of Casting from the WoD, and craft a Kirimu Belt (2 Accuracy (9), 2 Spell Speed (9) and 1 Det (4)).
Other than that, Try to bare through the Hunts and upgrade your current items...

[Kraktur]

First of all, thank you for your advice. It is true that I carry way too much accuracy, but I find it hard to incerease my dps while lowering my accuracy and still having 515 for when i'll get to T13 (if I ever get there).

Hunts are unbearable
Since last patch I miss 90% of hunts because of very fast pulls.
I still don't understand why people think they can't wait before pulling anymore.
They must think they farm Allied Seals/logs faster, but it doesn't make sense.

About the T9 weapon, I was thinking that the time I spend farming it keeps me away from upgrading my relic, but I'm very tempted to do so as I find T9 very entertaining.

[Skeith-Adeline]

I'd worry about the later turn accuracies when you either have them in sight, or are on them. I recently joined a new static, so I keep my current accuracy around T11 and gear for that turn in particular.

[Skeith-Adeline]

Help with going into Final Phase of T11? I can hold fair DPS for the first and second phase but, towards the end of the add phase, my DPS drops greatly. I do get panicky but, dropping 30-40-50 isn't something I'm guessing should happen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUWt...ature=youtu.be
Edit: 4:56 is end of add - sorry