Black Mage Sanctuary - A Guide to DPS

[SavageRico]

I only have BLM to level 50 but i really feel so powwerful compared to my ninja and leveling it i always "felt" i was doing alot of damage in group. This job is so freaking fun

[Sleigh]

I actually do 4 Enochian rotation during the add phase. Because between a Fire 1 or a Fire IV on a mob that has 3k health. Its gonna die anyways. It mattered in progression I guess but in farm... me and my DPS are basically stealing each others the mobs lol.

I think our MNK lost GL3 this week during the transition from add phase to Pepsiman, and that was with me on SMN just Miasma spamming. I think it's gonna mess with the parses with i210 weapons when BRD/MCH/BLM can milk a lot in this phase and all the melee are traveling to dead enemies.

[Aikaal]

I think our MNK lost GL3 this week during the transition from add phase to Pepsiman, and that was with me on SMN just Miasma spamming. I think it's gonna mess with the parses with i210 weapons when BRD/MCH/BLM can milk a lot in this phase and all the melee are traveling to dead enemies.

Yes xD That happens. I don't run with Monk anymore so it doesn't happen to my group. It's the same with A2S. You are SMN and you feel you should be doing more damage but in reality your group is doing more damage and eating your AoE.

[Greyfrost]

So errr, yeah, thanks to the guides and pointers from fellow BLMs, I've finally gotten the hang of Enochian and Fire IV.

Sharpcasted F1 in the opener is a godsent, I still need to get better though, because from pre-60 BLM playstyle, I immediately cast B3 to switch to UI when AF stacks timer is running out, this is becoming a habit when what I actually need to do is to refresh the AF timer with F1 and keep casting F4.

I'm not sure if this is a latency problem, but during UI rotation and we're ending it with F3, can you guys cast F4 as soon as F3's cast finishes?

The closest to what I meant by being as soon as a X cast finishes would be chaining F1 I guess, yeah, as fast as that, is it possible?
Because from my experiment, I can't cast a F4 as soon as the F3 cast inside UI rotation finishes, I need to wait until the AFIII buff is applied, and that's an extra of around 0.2-0.3s.

[Sleigh]

No you definitely have to wait about a couple tenths of a second before you can do a F4, but unless you have Sharpcast up there's no way around it. A minor annoyance, but no big deal.

[Waliel]

F4 requires AF so things happen. What also matters, is that UI and AF only affects cast but not recast, making your recast actually higher than your cast time during the transitions; you can't even F1 immediately after F3 if you look closely. There is also a small delay between B3 into B1 or B4 because of that. The little animations you do after your cast finishes conceal it pretty well, though.

[StouterTaru]

UI and AF only affects cast but not recast, making your recast actually higher than your cast time during the transitions; you can't even F1 immediately after F3 if you look closely.

You might not be able to cast F1 right at the end of F3 cast, but you can queue it up to cast right at the end of the GCD. F4 requires the animation to complete before it lets you think about starting a cast.

[kenventa]

How is Det scaling to magic potency?

Eso has a lot of ACC and only way to distribute the stats currently is to wear Asuran on some parts but that decreases magic potency in return to additional DET. Talking about 16 magic potency vs. 80+ det.

[Lavitz_]

How is Det scaling to magic potency?

Eso has a lot of ACC and only way to distribute the stats currently is to wear Asuran on some parts but that decreases magic potency in return to additional DET. Talking about 16 magic potency vs. 80+ det.

You'd need DET to be worth 0.2 INT to make up for that INT loss, and I doubt the stat weight is that high considering DRG/MNK/BRD are only around 0.14.

[Sleigh]

Started up this progression as SMN, ended up as BLM. Dang, I think we're still looking at a very well dressed up, hidden ARR situation where BLM still smokes SMN by 10% minimum (on ST, of course) and where there's a will to mitigate movement, there's a way, and BLM is just more damage. Then again, SMN's got a lot of advantages to it, AoE, consistency, and different, sometimes more handy utility, but golly BLM is so good. It'll be hard to decide where I fall next progression, but then again I think we'll be using shared tome gear from now on and it's gonna be a situation where we pick and choose all day per the fight without downsides.