Black Mage Sanctuary - A Guide to DPS

[Sleigh]

It's all about convenience. Those adds that you bane, painflare and deathflare the new set of adds. This means you do nothing about the old ones and it stress your group further. It is also easier to achieve those numbers on SMN but BLM wins just because Apoc buffs 20% of those 20k+ cleaves. This allows your heals to DPS more. There has to be a reason why a group with BLM cleared A3S 2 days before a group with SMN I jsut simply goes what's the best for the group and BLM is best for this imho.

Which 20k cleaves are you talking about? You mean the tethers? If so, Apoc's definitely nice there, and so is Manaward in final phase, can't argue with that.

I'd argue SMN makes add phase less stressful IMO, Miasma spam basically doubles your time to kill any add you hit, and a SCH cannot hit every single one even if he were to fulltime DPS. I don't notice it being harder with SMN the last few nights even though I know I'm doing less in that particular, timed phase comparatively to when I BLM.

One big thing I like is you can Virus every Cascade with SMN + SCH. With SCH alone it's every other, unfortunately. Also LB3ing the hand is a complete bitch on BLM, SMN barely loses anything from it, something most welcome.

Perhaps this turn really does boil down to preference/convenience, but I'm not sold that SMN won't consistently do more pre and post add phase compared to BLM, which is where the money is once you've got the final phase mechanics down (my group's still practicing final phase's loop so I cannot give you 10m runs to compare yet, soon I hope!). Just curious, what do you consistently get as BLM immediately pre-add phase? Also, comp?