Black Mage Sanctuary - A Guide to DPS

[CaffeinatedDani]

It's hard to pinpoint where you are falling short without watching you or seeing the ACT line chart that displays at the bottom of a parse. Some basic things though, make sure you are squeezing in all 6 fire 4s within the raging strikes timer on pull, the pot should stay on for the first five fire 4s, this makes a big difference as blm is a fairly front loaded job meaning the opener is extremely important to your dps. Use ley lines on cd in faust, no reason not to do so. What is your ilvl? is atleast 180? higher? lower? I need more information to help. The line chart one the bottom of ACT should resemble a heart rate monitor chart, it will level out if you manage to bridge your ice phase with a tcloud however.

My ilevel is i186 - I am doing everything you just suggested, maybe the food and the potion might be a bit of help.

[CaffeinatedDani]

Hmm. I'm consistently between 1250 and 1350 on Faust. Not sure why yours would be so much lower. I would suggest using a Sohm Al Tart instead. You shouldn't have accuracy issues. Also X-potions or Dracanian potions will help slightly if you can afford it. You also shouldn't be using every thundercloud proc. Not saying you you are, just keep that in mind. It's only better if it can tick it's full duration, so clipping it isn't good and you don't need it for movement in Faust.. Other than that, no trick attack from ninja. No crit buff from dragoon.

And not even Foe from Bard, so..
I will buy the tart and x potion. see if it helps me more. thanks for the suggestion.

[Xisin]

could be purely mechanical then, don't use macros, make sure you buffer casts and so on, I don't know what else could be putting you that low.

[CaffeinatedDani]

could be purely mechanical then, don't use macros, make sure you buffer casts and so on, I don't know what else could be putting you that low.

No macros - I'll try again with the higher pot and tart

[drizzle234]

No macros - I'll try again with the higher pot and tart

Does your tank use a countdown macro? Pre-casting the QS->Shard->Ley->f3 is critical. Also How long are you dead after that number? Could be that you die and parser still counting as encounter. Ask whoever has ACT to reduce encounter time to ~6sec for Faust only. I use 6 on faust and 30sec on Oppressor.

Positioning yourself right and/or tank positioning right is also critical. Any interruption in opener kills your dps.

[Aysin]

Been using a different rotation:

(In UI 3, just refreshed Eno) Fire 3, (Enochian here if not up) Fire 1, Fire 4 (Firestarter then Sharpcast if available), Fire 1, Fire 4,(Firestarter if you need to move and if available otherwise) Fire 4 (Firestarter if available), Bliz 3, (Bliz 4 if refresing), (Thunder for filler), (Bliz 1 for filler if skipping Bliz 4 for refresh to recast enochian), repeat.
This is my basic AF + Eno rotation.

It's rather RNG since it can fail you and deal 100 less potency compared to your rotation, or it can grace you and deal 140 more potency compared to your rotation but the biggest thing is the fact that it is SAFE mechanically speaking. The consistent refreshing of Astral Fire means getting picked for mechanics constantly is far less threatening to your Astral Fire stacks dropping off, as well as with a Firestarter more likely being at hand gives you the ever so slight boost in mobility.

Any thoughts on this?

[Rover1983]

With all the movements going on in practically every encounter be it dungeons or raid, Enochian has got to be the worst ability - mechanically I think I've ever encountered. Since it is so pivotal to our rotation and our DPS, it needs a LOT of work to be anything more then good. It is so unbelievably difficult to get an entire rotation in to maximize the uptime of Enochian because of all the AoE's/movement needed in each encounter.

For starters - Fire IV NEEDS to reapply the Astral fire buff and/or while IN Enochian, give Scathe the ability to increase Enochians duration by x amount of seconds. With all the moving going on, I'm spending more time NOT in Enochian then in it. I get it that were not supposed to be in it full time but there's a lot more downtime then uptime in encounters that has a lot of moving which results in a lot lower dps.

[drizzle234]

With all the movements going on in practically every encounter be it dungeons or raid, Enochian has got to be the worst ability - mechanically I think I've ever encountered. Since it is so pivotal to our rotation and our DPS, it needs a LOT of work to be anything more then good. It is so unbelievably difficult to get an entire rotation in to maximize the uptime of Enochian because of all the AoE's/movement needed in each encounter.
For starters - Fire IV NEEDS to reapply the Astral fire buff. Having to switch between Fire 1 and Fire IV is ridiculous. Maybe give Scathe a CHANCE to increase the duration of Enochian by x amount of seconds. With all the moving going on, I'm spending more time NOT in Enochian then in it..

Troll or you just want a broken class lol

[Rover1983]

Troll or you just want a broken class lol

Not trolling. I'm dead serious. Re-read my last paragraph. It makes sense and they're just ideas I'm tossing out there.

[AkashiXI]

Hi guys, I don't play Black Mage but I was wondering how do you guys feel about A1 savage? I've cleared it, and our Black Mage switched over to Summoner due to the higher mobility, multi-dots, strain on the add mechanic, and (in his opinion) overall dps increase. I'm very curious what answer Black Mages have for the moving in this fight, and is there any videos of a POV Black Mage clearing? Thanks in advance!