Black Mage Sanctuary - A Guide to DPS

[Sleigh]

Looks solid to me. Everything after ring + weapon + chest is just fluff, most of the good stuff's Gordian.

That said, if you've got SMN at a decent iLVL already, why not roll with that if you're aiming to down A3S? SMN's perfectly great for A3S, and that's when your group will truly start getting geared up, from the pants/twines. If it's to gear BLM up for A4S, well, can't really argue there, but your interest otherwise should be in what gives you the most chance of drinking Pepsiman up IMO, and that would be continuing gearing up the better geared of your casters.

[Aikaal]

http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/RLCS

That's the BiS I've been looking at. I actually don't know if the Eso 210 weapon would be better. I'm gonna assume Crit is far superior than Det on that. This is also low of Esos, like Sleigh mentioned, your gear is from Gordian.

[MyraOriales]

Thanks for the feedback, guys. Much appreciated!

As to why I'm using BLM instead of SMN for A3S, it's more of a personal thing really. I was a BLM main for all of Coil, but I got into SMN before Heavensward, and although I like both classes, I just really miss playing BLM. I've kind of lost track of the time but I think I've done about three-four weeks on A3S as SMN, and although my damage was good, I just had more fun when I tried it out as BLM this weekend, and we still continued to make good progress. My group is good, but we're not like a server first group or anything, and we still have to clean up execution of mechanics in A3S and learn the final phase. (We're also gearing up someone who replaced another member a couple of weeks ago.)

As far as gear strength goes, the weapon and the body are the main gap between my BLM and my SMN after 'losing' Esoterics by getting the Gordian gloves and belt after having got the Eso ones. It seems like now is my best opportunity to get BLM up to speed.
Here's my SMN if you're curious: http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/RLD5 (I have the i200 Eso hands, but the Gordian gloves dropped and sent my accuracy back into the stratosphere.)

[Sleigh]

http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/RLCS

That's the BiS I've been looking at. I actually don't know if the Eso 210 weapon would be better. I'm gonna assume Crit is far superior than Det on that. This is also low of Esos, like Sleigh mentioned, your gear is from Gordian.

Yeah I'm at a cross roads on the weapon thing. I've still got i190 weapon but I'm clearing A4S so IDK if I should buy i200 weapon then get a Gobdip (which would probably be after DRG gets it, so not next week) or gamble on Gordian dropping or 7 more pages to guarantee it. From my perspective, crits are really, really godly on BLM, stat weights be damned, because when you're fully buffed and each crit is adding 3-4k damage straight up it's kind of a big deal, but the DET + higher SS on the Eso weapon i210 might be a life saver in your Enochian timers every now and then. Then again, I look at SS as having two benefits, one being turret DPS gains, and the other, rotation ease and QoL and consistency, but I'm not sure if maybe .01 GCD would be worth giving up about 2% real crit rate.

Basically I like the Gordian better but it's gonna take way too long to get unless RNGesus hits me up. I might even have relic by then. Might have to go the Eso route.

/1st world problems, having two good ultimate weapons

[Hontaro]

I'm currently lost at what I should do with my esoterics.
Is it worth getting the caster headpiece/gloves/pants?
Pants would be overstacking way too much accuracy, both gloves and headpiece give det, so I would lose either spellspeed or crit in exchange for a few int and vit.

[Aikaal]

It depends, anything that boost your iLevel is worth. I got the Eso pants becvause I didn't get the A3S pants yet.

[T0rin]

I'm leveling up BLM to use for A4S instead of SMN. I've got a good number of 210 pieces (full right side, half left side or so) and some gobtwines waiting to be used.

Would I be better off spending my ESO this week (will have 990) on the weapon or getting the body piece and upgrading it to 210?

Edit: This is what my gear looks like right now.. http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/RLMV

[Sleigh]

If it's i180 chest > i210 chest, chest. If it's i190 chest, weapon.

The big thing about chest vs weapon was that you could get a ring + chest back in the day vs weapon (ring + chest was better, much to many people's dismay/disbelief) but you lack that option so weapon's gonna be the winner if you have the i190 chest.

[Synovius]

Great stuff, Aikaal. Thanks for your effort here!

[Primm]

It depends, anything that boost your iLevel is worth. I got the Eso pants becvause I didn't get the A3S pants yet.

Same for me, I got eso pants and now eso hat cause i got incredible bad drop luck and it'll take some weeks until I can buy those a3s bis parts with pages. I still hope that pants or head or gloves or boots or earrings or choker might drop once in our group :P I guess everybody has a tank belt soon.