Quote Originally Posted by StouterTaru View Post
Firestarter may be a 40% proc, but you won't get 40% in reality unless you wait for over half a second after each fire cast to see if the proc hits. In a 5 fire rotation, you will average just under 1 firestarter use per rotation under AF3.

The umbral phase also needs to be included in total damage, as well as damage boost to fire spells under AF3.

In mobile fights, I don't think Enocian would be worth keeping up, due to the need to jump to the umbral phase with MP just to get off BIV and maintain it. If it's up use it, if not old school Fire I.
Could you go into the math on why you say 5 Fire averages under 1 proc per rotation? Even discrediting the final Fire by its lonesome if you'd get a Firestarter on the 3rd Fire, used on the 4th, the average should be in the 1 1/2 procs per rotation range. Regardless, any devaluing of Fire 1 makes the new rotation stronger than it was (is).

I can't agree with Enochian being okay to let fall off for extended times, even in as mobile a fight as they come. If SMN is evenly remotely balanced with BLM in 3.0, and it sure looks like it could be, Enochian loss is gonna make SMN destroy us in that encounter, in that play style, so we'd have to find a way around it or just not play BLM.

Quote Originally Posted by Maero View Post
great drgs, monks and Ninjas
Gonna catch flak for this one but even BRD (DRG buffed) if played perfectly can beat BLM in single target. BLM is in a bad spot in high levels of play right now, mainly being brought for purposes other than its pure DPS. Hopefully that changes.