Quote Originally Posted by pandabearcat View Post
If we assume both BLM and SMN do roughly the same amount of dps, it does not really make sense to think SMN will gain more from it.

DoTs are not some magical thing that somehow gets "drastically" better by snapshotting. DoTs are merely high damage nukes - that can be thought of as having a cooldown the length of their duration. I hope you can understand this.

With that out of the way, merely extending or having buffed our DoTs isn't some big deal. DoTs are roughly 30-40% of a SMN's damage. They do a total potency as "nukes" of 350, 290, and 240.

On the other hand a BLM's Fire I does 270 potency, Fire III does 432 potency. So we consider these nukes as well.

So why would they do the same damage? It depends on how lucky you are with timing of the buff.

If the BLM is in Blizz phase during that, or doesn't have Ley Lines or Enochian, or has to move, he is going to do less dps than the SMN. Or if unlucky streak of Fire III procs.
If the SMN is not ready to 3-D or Dreadwyrm during that, he is going to do less dps than the BLM.

So really while the idea of the buff being good is valid, both Harold and Sovereign have incorrect reasons as to why it's better for one class or the other.

What it boils down to is, do your cooldowns line up. Having a DoT and having a nuke based class is irrelevant to this.
I'm unable to right now, but surely you could just use Miasma 2, then Tri-disaster as close to the end of Battle Litany as you can and then Contagion to get your DoT's refreshed with the buff, lasting longer?

Wouldn't that add 1450 potency onto SMN that is affected by the buff? (although you would lose potency from the original casts due to clipping).

And surely it is better on a class that has more Critical Hit Rate due to having higher critical damage?