BLM macros

[lacrimosaangel]

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Oh gosh no, I didn't mean to insinuate that I'm relying on them, I still like to do things myself and do not - under ANY circumstance - use them for any of my fire/blizz skills, I just seem to find that a LOT of the time when I use flare manually, I mess up the timing with transpose and miss the umbral/astral switch. The number of times this has happened has led me to think that perhaps I would be better off just testing a macro.

My X-bar set up:

Fire I, II, III, Blizz III
Scathe, Thunder I, II, III
Sprint, Physick, Convert, Transpose
Virus, Flare, Sleep, aetherial

and then on bar 2 I have my other buffs/debuffs etc. But I don't like using convert for mp gain unless I REALLY need to, I don't like having to rely on healers to get that hp back up, especially as most of the healers I've found in parties are too busy focus healing on tanks!

[Garotte14]

My X-bar set up:

Fire I, II, III, Blizz III
Scathe, Thunder I, II, III
Sprint, Physick, Convert, Transpose
Virus, Flare, Sleep, aetherial

and then on bar 2 I have my other buffs/debuffs etc. But I don't like using convert for mp gain unless I REALLY need to, I don't like having to rely on healers to get that hp back up, especially as most of the healers I've found in parties are too busy focus healing on tanks!

Just some tips and words of advice. You don't need Thunder 1 and 2 on your hotbar. You only need to use one of them so pick one and get rid of the other one. There is no difference in dps. I prefer the Thunder 1 > blizzard 1 combo, and if I get a quick mana tick while casting thunder I can just skip blizz 1 and go back into Astral Fire, but thats just me. Secondly you really have no need to have Physick and Sleep on your main hotbar. You can't really sleep anything post 50 and if you have to heal in emergencies, you can just switch to your second hotbar. Free up those spaces. Virus also has a cooldown so its good to put that on expanded hotbar. Plus your Virus is weaker so if you have a SMN or SCH, let them use it.

As far as flare is concerned, you shouldn't be using flare on a single target unless you have convert available. Use Flare in AoE situations with multiple targets. Fire III > Fire II until low > Flare > Transpose > repeat until everything is dead. Flare > Transpose on a single target is a dps loss. Swiftcast should be used for movement. Its on a short cooldown so make use of it. Swiftcast > Fire I while moving is far better than Scathe. Anything is better than scathe really. Scathe should only be used if Swiftcast and Aethrial Manipulation are unavailable and you have to move longer than 2 seconds. Point being is, you are given the tools to succeed. You just need to practice and learn to use these tools properly.

[lacrimosaangel]

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I have just taken T1 off the hotbar and now have T2 and T3.

Sleep and physick are still on the bar because I'm not done with the story yet and with the instanced, I have needed to heal.. I find sleep > physick etc to be useful for that, but when I'm done with the solo stuff, I will remove it (especially during sapsa before Levi, hoardes of ixal... booo

Also, I never use flare on single target O_O I don't quite know where that has been coming across in my posts, but The rotation above F3>F2>Flare>etc is exactly what I've been doing for mobs, but I want the swiftcast in there before flare because of the absolutely horrid cast time ^^

Scathe is on there mainly because in small mobs/1hit ko, by the time the spells have cast, they're either dead or you are because of multiple AoE. Sometimes, I find I'd rather use Scathe to do Some albeit abysmal damage than stand like a lemon I don't have a SCH or SMN either

Thank you ^_^