SMN Theorycraft and comparison to Blm

[Alberel]

Battle Litany provides more for SMN than for BLM.

Care to explain that one? If anything a SMN stands to gain less from Battle Litany due to it not affecting any previously cast DOTs so we would have to recast everything ahead of our normal timings just to get any use out of it. Since BLMs primarily deal flat direct damage they benefit massively from a flat crit chance increase.

[HaroldSaxon]

Care to explain that one? If anything a SMN stands to gain less from Battle Litany due to it not affecting any previously cast DOTs so we would have to recast everything ahead of our normal timings just to get any use out of it. Since BLMs primarily deal flat direct damage they benefit massively from a flat crit chance increase.

SMN's have more chances to crit due to having more "attacks" going out per second and can refresh towards the end and still get the benefits. Each DoT can crit each time it ticks, so recast your DoT's when it comes up and towards the end of the buff. Plus SMN's have always scaled better from crit than BLM and its likely this will continue.

BLM's could well be in Ice Phase/Doing a refresh of Enochian or have Enochian fall off - although at the same point, SMN may not have Tri-disaster or deathflare.