Black Mage Sanctuary - A Guide to DPS

[Sleigh]

Well, the math says, Thundercloud is now worth 780 potency that scales higher with SS higher than F4, so it's certainly stronger than F4 now. The only thing about it is the opportunity cost, IE it won't necessarily be worth dropping a F4 for a Thundercloud because you will often want to use Thunder as filler for MP ticks (if, say, you can only do Thundercloud or F4 as your last move in a rotation, F4 will take precedence because you've got half the Thundercloud damage coming more than 50% of the time anyway). I'm looking at this change as a raw DPS upgrade for now without trying it, our odds of using a very strong Thundercloud as our filler in UI (and yes, we always have this capability, even if it's after B4) just shot way up. Using it in place of F4 in AF, I don't believe that is the intent unfortunately, the stipulations on using it are still going to be high in a F4 F4 F1 F4 F4 rotation except specific rotations and timings but we'll see.

I'm not a fan of this, it feels even more ghetto than 2.3's buffs because we really didn't need DPS boosts instead of mobility QoL this time around, but it's something. The prospect of filler being very strong is appealing to me though.