Dear casters... about line break....

[RiceisNice]

With great respect for your DPS and skills --

When there are no melee in the party -- I can do more damage to a single boss with LB than you can, mere machinist though I might be. So please... when the boss gets down to 20%, leave the LB to me. I know when to do it in order to get the boss within the quick-kill margin.

In five of six tome runs through Fractal Continuum, the caster let loose at 20-25%. No disaster, but we wasted time on one more wave of walkin' clocks than we had to.

It occurs to me that machinists are so rare these days that other classes have little familiarity with their capabilities. Too bad.

Ranged LB does less than caster LB as other people have said; It's still 10% across the board from what I see, but that only means that the numerical difference becomes more significant as it increases.

And you're typically better off killing the clocks linearly with a ranged LB anyway. If you're still struggling to kill the boss before the extra wave of clockworks with a caster LB, you're sure as hell not gonna kill it before the spawn with a ranged lb.

oGCD oriented nature of BRD/MCH (IE as long as a BRD/MCH doesn't lose many oGCDs for the whole fight, you can look at LBing as losing raw BRD/MCH DPS without CDs, if that makes any sense), a distinct difference in DPS regardless between BLM and BRD/MCH, and BLM loses the most DPS period from LB3ing, it being particularly bursty in how it does its damage, and even if you keep Enochian you have to spend time after it ramping up.

It's not the most common opinion for BRD/MCH to LB3 over a BLM but I'm a firm believer in it, now and for future progression.

The BRD/MCH would need to skill shot it without being able to see their telegraph. This already causes some downtime in trying to position for it, which may not be made up with overall dps if you factor in the lower damage (especially on the scale of LB3, where it's roughly a loss of 600 potency on each target if the value is 10%). Not to mention the width is incredibly small even for LB3 (if you even get that far anymore), you'd still need to do careful positioning to hit all the mobs in A2S. Not to mention a BLM shouldn't be using it when their enochian is active anyway (and considering that the fights are really scripted, it's something you can plan for, but it also means you can pre-aim the LB for things like landing phase or liquid gaol spawn)