Black Mage Sanctuary - A Guide to DPS

[Aikaal]

I need to do maths but I think I found an advanced and simply better opener. It's quite different, I'll need time to maths it out and I'll actually show the results if I'm correct :x It will collide with an update of my guide :3

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Edit, here's my current self buffed dummy parse.



iLevel 202, Sohm Al Tart + Draconian Potion self buff. I have a new opener that basically requires insane insight x.x It's not viable in raid, only on dummy lol. 1368 is extremely high on BLM xD

[Clarkamite]

I need to do maths but I think I found an advanced and simply better opener. It's quite different, I'll need time to maths it out and I'll actually show the results if I'm correct :x It will collide with an update of my guide :3

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Edit, here's my current self buffed dummy parse.



iLevel 202, Sohm Al Tart + Draconian Potion self buff. I have a new opener that basically requires insane insight x.x It's not viable in raid, only on dummy lol. 1368 is extremely high on BLM xD

Go on...

/10char

[Sethra]

I have a new opener that basically requires insane insight x.x It's not viable in raid, only on dummy lol.

The BLM community awaits with bated breath.

[Happosai]

Sorry if this is a repeat question (and stupid), how much dps should blm's be parsing at to comfortably clear Faust in savage alex? I've attempted a1s twice in pf. 1st time was a struggle but managed to clear faust. 2nd group we wiped on faust every time around 6-10%. With the second group luckily someone was running a parser. Through the several attempts my parse ranged from 1170-1250. Being ilvl191 and having a bard playing foes, I tend to feel my numbers are really low. I was using xpots and switched between hq black truffle and hq sohm all tarts (never went above 1200 on sohm all tarts oddly). I use aikaals 6x fire 4 opener with xpot+raging strikes. Enochian never falls off. The only area of improvement I can see is my thundercloud management. Ive seen a lot of different things here on the forums and am still confused as to when it is a dps increase over fire 4. Pretty frustrated that I have no way of parseing myself on ps4. All I have is the fact I ripped enmity from the tank about 4 times (made me think my dps must be up there) but when the parse numbers come out im mid-bottom.

[Lavitz_]

Through the several attempts my parse ranged from 1170-1250. Being ilvl191

That's fine for Faust, of course you could do better but it's not likely your DPS is the cause of the wipes. Pretty much every DPS except for maybe NIN will have their DPS padded by AOE hitting the adds, so you should always check incoming damage on Faust to see who is really behind. Generally what you see a BLM doing against faust will be their single target numbers since there is no reason for us to AOE at all.

[HaroldSaxon]

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I do between 1250 and 1350 depending on procs/crits without Foe's, and you seem to be better geared than me. I still think i've got a lot more headroom for DPS, mainly because i've not been able to put as much time into the game as I would usually.

Also, in the parse for that fight, you need to cut out AOE. Select Faust on the parse, all incoming, then sort by combatant.

[Waliel]

You might or might not have missed this a couple of pages back:

Firestarter proc under AF3 and Eno is 181,44 PPS and F4 is 176,4. In the few situations when you have FS up but not the time to use it before Eno refresh, would it be worth it to use FS instead of F4?

That would happen in the second rotation mainly. Thoughts?

[Maero]

For Faust 1000+ minimum is/should be required from every dps class tbh.
And i agree there i very much wish PS4 had an add on for parses

[HaroldSaxon]

You might or might not have missed this a couple of pages back:



That would happen in the second rotation mainly. Thoughts?

Remember the potency per second changes based on how much spellspeed you have and if you have Ley Lines up, as 2.5 second castspellspells scale differently with those compared to 3.0 second cast times.

[Sleigh]

You might or might not have missed this a couple of pages back:



That would happen in the second rotation mainly. Thoughts?

If it's one or the other, go for Firestarter. More PPS, more mobility, shorter rotation so more consistent Enochian refresh if there were or would be an interrupt. As you said it's mainly a rotation 2 thing, rotation 3 you can always (if you weren't interrupted somewhere) get it off after Enochian drops off, rotation 1 is just super long if it's not the opener.