Black Mage Sanctuary - A Guide to DPS

[Puwarh]

I wanna discuss this too, Surely we would want to squeeze all the dps we can make when we play with a competence group (if you lucky enough you will even get one from DF), BUT, There will be time to time (Almost all the DF situation for dungeons) that you would some how run a roulette with a newbe or FATE-graduated tank that cannot keep our AoE frenzy (the worse tank can even hardly keep up with SMN bane)

Now problem will be how can we dps in this situation? I use to do wait 1-2 sec. sleep the group of mops as possible then do only single target without touching fire III and not mention to never use any HW ability. I know this will make the dps extremely low but how can we deal with this situation without compromise our DPS too much?

[Stroking]

I'm kinda lost on what to upgrade at this point - my group is on a3s progression and I made the mistake (i believe) of blowing my a2s books on the belt. Any advice? Here's my current gear: http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/RLS1

[Lavitz_]

I'm kinda lost on what to upgrade at this point - my group is on a3s progression and I made the mistake (i believe) of blowing my a2s books on the belt. Any advice? Here's my current gear: http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/RLS1

I bought the belt with my first 4 tokens as well, it's a nice upgrade and I don't regret it because it hasn't dropped yet :P

That gear is fine for clearing A3S, maybe wait until you're hitting 1% wipes before buying any more gear if you wanted to use your Eso on another job. Looks like you're a bit short on accuracy for A3S with the Gordian belt, so you should use some higher acc food to hit 530 acc.

[Sleigh]

Was "fortunate" enough to get Gordian chest from A4S even though I have i210 SMN and BLM chest. It's ugly as balls dyed, not wearing this crap ever again.



i210 weapon though, it's not half bad dyed! The moon part glows. Hope I get Gordian sooner than later though.



Dunno how much of a gain i210 is over i200 because I only had i200 for about 30s but it's about 7% raw damage increase over i190.

[Waliel]

The shoulder spikes ruin it.

[Lavitz_]

Was "fortunate" enough to get Gordian chest from A4S even though I have i210 SMN and BLM chest. It's ugly as balls dyed, not wearing this crap ever again.

i210 weapon though, it's not half bad dyed! The moon part glows. Hope I get Gordian sooner than later though.

Dunno how much of a gain i210 is over i200 because I only had i200 for about 30s but it's about 7% raw damage increase over i190.

Could you post the dye preview in Jet Black for the robe? :O

[Lavitz_]

Not sure if anyone will find this useful, but I was bored so I made a macro and tested the i210 Gordian Boots against i200 Esoterics since I have way too much accuracy right now. I did 400 casts of Blizzard III with each, and the difference is 5 INT vs 50 Det.

10 highest and lowest damages for each not counting crits:

i210 Gordian Boots Max - 2048, 2048, 2047, 2047, 2046, 2046, 2044, 2043, 2043, 2042
i200 Esoteric Boots Max - 2050, 2049, 2049, 2049, 2048, 2048, 2048, 2047, 2047, 2047

i210 Gordian Boots Min - 1859, 1859, 1856, 1856, 1855, 1854, 1854, 1854, 1854, 1854
i200 Esoteric Boots Min - 1864, 1862, 1861, 1861, 1860, 1860, 1859, 1857, 1857, 1857

Seems like i200 gives slightly more damage than i210 Gordian which I suspected, but I wanted to be sure. The only thing you lose is 4 crit.

[Sleigh]

Could you post the dye preview in Jet Black for the robe? :O

[Lavitz_]

http://puu.sh/kdN6T/fdb7a78785.jpg

Thanks! Looks pretty good

[Aikaal]

i210 Gordian Boots Max - 2048, 2048, 2047, 2047, 2046, 2046, 2044, 2043, 2043, 2042
i200 Esoteric Boots Max - 2050, 2049, 2049, 2049, 2048, 2048, 2048, 2047, 2047, 2047

i210 Gordian Boots Min - 1859, 1859, 1856, 1856, 1855, 1854, 1854, 1854, 1854, 1854
i200 Esoteric Boots Min - 1864, 1862, 1861, 1861, 1860, 1860, 1859, 1857, 1857, 1857

I figured the boots was just barely better... That's quite sad it's only like 4 damage per spell. 4 Crit is seriously how much %? lol

Btw, next time you're hanging around on the forums, could you try get Sleigh to pm me on reddit/my blog/youtube/twitter?

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