Black Mage Sanctuary - A Guide to DPS

[Garotte14]

Is there any hints you could give to a starter BLM?

Pretty much what Viuiji said. What I like to do is position myself at the start of the fight where close to where I'll be taking my add. So I pretty much stand still from the beginning until the second set of adds spawn. Slight movements are sometimes necessary of course, but for the most part I'm already at or near the wall when my add comes down. I''ll pick up my add and then I pretty much play it by ear depending on what happens. I might smack the add right away with a F4 before resin drops and then dps the boss until after the laser goes out and then finish the add off. All kinds depends on procs and/or if I hit a crit. I don't worry too much about the first set I have to grab cause my enochian will off CD as soon as my add dies. The second set is more tricky cause if you use enichion as soon as boss comes down, it won't be ready when your add dies so you have to maintain it during the add part

[Benolan]

So I have 267 piety... and every so often in using the 6 F4 starter, my mp pool will hiccup and I will lose my B3 cast in the middle. I will start it, then it's interrupted.

Anyone know what is happening there?

Thanks,
Benolan

[Hontaro]

So I have 267 piety... and every so often in using the 6 F4 starter, my mp pool will hiccup and I will lose my B3 cast in the middle. I will start it, then it's interrupted.

Anyone know what is happening there?

You don't have enough spellspeed/You're generally not fast enough. Your AF3 runs out and B3 will cost more mana (in AF3, B3 costs 1/4 of the original cost) which you don't have, resulting in you cancelling the cast.

[Garotte14]

So I have 267 piety... and every so often in using the 6 F4 starter, my mp pool will hiccup and I will lose my B3 cast in the middle. I will start it, then it's interrupted.

Anyone know what is happening there?

Thanks,
Benolan

Your Astral Fire 3 dropped off in the middle if your blizzard cast

[Linkan]

Hi Linkan

What I found worked for me is just before ads come out, i hit .5/opp (depending on what strat your group is using) with b3, then hit my ad with b4 (as my eno is usually at about 9 seconds at this stage and gives me movement time), run to side and f3 ad, avoid resin, hope line aoe gods are nice, kill at laser with f1 and f4, move away from laser and finish eno rot. Eno is usually ready to go again and you can let loose. Shouldn't be too much movement unless lasers/line aoe are just crap placement.

Alternatively, if gods are not nice, I just use 2.0 rot on ad and save eno for my focus.



After jump, if you time it well, and have some luck, you can still use eno rot all the way through to next jump.

Thank you.
I'll jump on another learning party group to actually improve my timing.

[Benolan]

Oh yeah! Thank you both... I forgot about the changing mp cost. I was not crazy after all.

[Aikaal]

hello
in the 3 possible opener the one with convert flare.
If u get a F3P it could be better to use convert on 2 fire IV with swiftcast.
That could be :
Sharp+F1 > ley+eno F3P > RS+pot > F4 > F4 > F1 > F4 > F4 > F3P > convert+swiftcast > F4 > F4 > B3

Inside a F3 Proc Swiftcast + Flare is actually higher PPS. 2.5 seconds 260 Potency > 3 seconds 280 Potency

[Sacerdos]

Inside a F3 Proc Swiftcast + Flare is actually higher PPS. 2.5 seconds 260 Potency > 3 seconds 280 Potency

Tsujiki is saying to Convert -> Swiftcast F4 instead of Swiftcast Flare -> Convert if you get a F3P proc, since you don't need to refresh AF3 with Flare.

Fire 4 has the same 2.5 recast as Flare under Swiftcast right?

[Aikaal]

Tsujiki is saying to Convert -> Swiftcast F4 instead of Swiftcast Flare -> Convert if you get a F3P proc, since you don't need to refresh AF3 with Flare.

Fire 4 has the same 2.5 recast as Flare under Swiftcast right?

Oh yeah, potency wise but isn't it the same as doing a 6 Fire IV rotation? Except you'll have cast 2 Fire 1 instead of one Fire 1 so you'll have less mana. I didn't check it out but I'd fear for MP issues.

[Tsujiki]

im actually lalafell dunefolk dont worry for mana i test many time this opener u get enough mana to have enter use one swift F4 + F4 + B3.
It is the 3rd opener in ur guide ( purple one ) depends on if u get a FS proc on the 2nd F1 and when use convert+swift u remplace flare by F4+F4.

I get some gear from savage tonight and got a 1420 dps on 4min on dummy at ilvl 199 ( without food and pot ).

I m testing something too on my side too maybe i m wrong with this but from this few days i search a ways to get my full eno timer on the refresh of RS and a ways to keep always thunder dot on to maximize TC proc.
But on forum it is pretty hard to explain i will surely create an alt avatar on Ragnarok server to talk with u ( if i renember u understand french that will be easier for me to explain this to u ) if u open to discuss about some blm thing.