Who ever said saving firestarter for mechanics was a dps gain? This is a dps lost to hold DPS. To be able to safely cast in between earth shakers, you need Selene buff and roughly 670 spell speed which is damn too high lol.


Monks get cover, they ignore mechanics. Good monks will do GCD > move away to place poddle > GCD > move away to place poddle > GCD > move away to place puddle. You might have lost 1 auto-attack, nothing compared to 2 Fire casts. Handling a mechanic based on luck and procs is not safe. I handle most of it but results are this, if I don't get a proc on the fire cast I do when I get marker and I don't have swiftcast, it's 5 seconds of scathe.

The whole "Save your procs for this mechanic!" is the same as telling anyone with Blood for Blood "Don't use it because you might get earth shakers!" This is a stupid logic.

Paladin can cover Black Mage but usually they cover melees as single target melee dps is usually higher than single target blm dps. I avoid most downtime now but I usually clip my Dragoon once for it which is whatever lol.