Black Mage Sanctuary - A Guide to DPS

[Aikaal]

I feel kinda like I must be missing something basic and fundamental as to why we'd ever want to Swiftcast Flare over F4 on a single target.
In the second rotation in the video, assuming you get a Firestarter proc to cover your SC, both would be cast in the same 1 GCD window and F4 would have 20 more base potency than Flare in that ~2.4 second timeframe.

Because even if you don't get proc and you lose time using Swiftcast, this scenario happens 3 times out of 5. Your average PPS with buffs is 5 lower than Fire IV. A respectable lost to always have MP for T1 / B4 after B3.

Aikaal, do you have a video of that 1.3k A1S ? That's pretty impressive.

I didn't record myself All I can say is I used my CDs after the second jump and we decided to ignore adds cause we had like 5% left to down on both bosses and when it came to me to cast Swiftcast Flare, it clipped 2 adds so it should be lower. Adds spawn the same time I flare so I didn't really have control over it x.x There was no point to break my rotation just so I wouldn't clip 2 adds not to damage them lol

I'm more impress by 1220 DPS in A3S without Bard :[