Black Mage Sanctuary - A Guide to DPS

[Garotte14]

BLM Guide was updated. I did put the right number of Piety for the opener like everybody yelled at me for not mentioning :<

Hey Aikaal, got a question regarding AoE. Now I've noticed that in the guide you talk about F2x2 > Flare is probably better without maintaining enochian. But one thing I didn't see in there (unless I just missed it) is maintaining enochian actually allows for a third Fire 2.

I'm not sure if this is just my piety, but I can Fire 2x3 > Flare > transpose > Blizzard IV > Fire 3 > repeat. The blizzard IV gives another mp tick plus maintains the 5% buff. I'm just wondering if this would be optimal or just still the old 2.0 aoe rotation?

[Garash]

I've just read Aikaal's updated AoE rotation. Do they consider the downtime after flaring and building up stacks and mp? I'm wondering if a mix of 0-4 F4 and 1-4 FIRE F2 could do better dps, especially if swiftcast isn't up.
IE
F4 F4 F2 F4 F4 B4 ... F3 for pseudo AOE
F2 F2 F2 B4 ... F3 for pure AOE

Also, anyone knows what the accuracy cap for savage 1/2 are?

[Aikaal]

Hey Aikaal, got a question regarding AoE. Now I've noticed that in the guide you talk about F2x2 > Flare is probably better without maintaining enochian. But one thing I didn't see in there (unless I just missed it) is maintaining enochian actually allows for a third Fire 2.

I'm not sure if this is just my piety, but I can Fire 2x3 > Flare > transpose > Blizzard IV > Fire 3 > repeat. The blizzard IV gives another mp tick plus maintains the 5% buff. I'm just wondering if this would be optimal or just still the old 2.0 aoe rotation?

I did not consider a 3rd Fire II. To me, you need to respect Transpose CD (12secs) and you need to use Flare as much as possible so anything that makes a rotation go for like 18 seconds is something I do not look into x.x

I've just read Aikaal's updated AoE rotation. Do they consider the downtime after flaring and building up stacks and mp? I'm wondering if a mix of 0-4 F4 and 1-4 FIRE F2 could do better dps, especially if swiftcast isn't up.
IE
F4 F4 F2 F4 F4 B4 ... F3 for pseudo AOE
F2 F2 F2 B4 ... F3 for pure AOE

Also, anyone knows what the accuracy cap for savage 1/2 are?

Don't know the accuracy caps. I don't miss in A3S with 585 Accuracy so...

I did the maths and the downtime after Flare applies to any rotation. It depends on the server MP tick. Of course since we transpose and wait 1 MP tick, if you were to have an AoE rotation that is about 14 seconds. You'd only wait 1 second for your MP tick. You can F4 and F2 to get a mix of single target and AoE but usually when you're asked to AoE, you don't single target. The answer to our AoE is to get as many Flares as possible despite the nerf.

To be honest, I don't even believe in BLM AoE anymore, I go SMN in A2S :\