Black Mage Sanctuary - A Guide to DPS

[Sleigh]

Virus is 90s CD.

Edit: 710 is correct, forgive me.

[Psycofang]

I need help maxing blm damage consistently, and maxing it in general

Saw a single post earlier saying youll only cast fire 1 once per fire 4 rotation in my mind that means

X-f4x3-f1-f4x2-3-blizzard 3 etc for your rotation and diminished rotation forward.


Sound about right? The only way I can manage 3 f4s is with fire starter proc waiting

[Sleigh]

I need help maxing blm damage consistently, and maxing it in general

Saw a single post earlier saying youll only cast fire 1 once per fire 4 rotation in my mind that means

X-f4x3-f1-f4x2-3-blizzard 3 etc for your rotation and diminished rotation forward.


Sound about right? The only way I can manage 3 f4s is with fire starter proc waiting

F4 X 3 > F1 doesn't work, F1 will fizzle out AF3 before it gets off. The proper rotation is F4 X 2 > F1 > F4 X 2. That said, you CAN do F4 X 3 as long as it's into a Firestarter, B3, or Swiftcast anything.

[Psycofang]

I figured as much.

Thanks.

[Xisin]

I'd agree with blm in A1 savage, we spend less time maintaining the multidot and well our single target just dumps on smn single target. I think our fire 4 will make up for fact that we're missing some potency on dots, thunder dot tick potency helped a lot in A1, without bard I'm clearing that fight over 1k dps, with bard it'd be far more + I'm handling my own adds, granted add pick up can screw me if i have to cross the entire world to get to my laser.

[Aikaal]

Hey you didn't change the Thunder/Thundercloud potencies in your guide, just a heads up. Also, Virus is 90s CD.

Opps for the Virus. It's been there for a while. Isn't Thunder 1 30 base Potency and Thunder III 70 base potency and DoT is 40 now? Numbers should be fine.

On a side note, the Ninja in my group has a complain that Fire IV blinds him in A3S and he has to turn particle effects off lol.

[Sleigh]

"If used under Thundercloud proc, its total Potency is 710 Potency."

Should be 780.

Edit: It is in fact 710, carry on, carry on, nothing to see here ...

[Xisin]

just putting this in here: if ewer used on you in its current form, it is still worth 1 extra fire 4. Also since it ticks for EXACTLY 265 mp then you can flare straight into blizz 3 to avoid having to hard cast fire 3 and you'll have a full mp bar on the next aoe wind up. Super nice.

[Fallen_Owl]

I have not giving this much thought but wasn't the point of Flare costing 100% of mp is because of how much damage it deals as aoe? Do you think this should be changed or just remain as is? Because I think BLM aoe should be slightly buffed. Not asking for much here, maybe a little increase in F2 potency? What do you guys think?

[HaroldSaxon]

I have not giving this much thought but wasn't the point of Flare costing 100% of mp is because of how much damage it deals as aoe? Do you think this should be changed or just remain as is? Because I think BLM aoe should be slightly buffed. Not asking for much here, maybe a little increase in F2 potency? What do you guys think?

There is no need to buff BLM AOE.