Black Mage Sanctuary - A Guide to DPS

[Twilite]

I'd appreciate it if the images for the openers, the first one was made a little larger. My old eyes can barely see the text..

[Sleigh]

I'd say anywhere from 10-25% depending on who you're looking at, across the board. Your MNK's numbers look almost okay but I'm guessing he's getting a lot of the Balances so he's probably slacking too.

One simple solution to help boost your group's DPS is just have your tanks use no tank stances unless it's Unchained from your WAR, if your healers aren't confident or able to DPS. It's really not hard to keep them up if your tanks are popping CDs for the big swings, and your healers are focusing their attention where it should go properly. Up to you how you guys wanna approach that but I can say from experiencing every way the fight's tanked (full tank stance + full healing, no stance stance + full healing, no tank stance + decent healer DPS), it's easy to up your tank/healer DPS if people use CDs wisely, healers included.

[xxvaynxx]

Hey fellow black mage's.
I'm a ilv199 blm...I think...but anyway, what should my dps be around on a dummy?
My fc member told me my opener( The 6 fire 4's opener) was around 2000
and my normal rotation was about around 1300...I didn't even know he was scanning my dps until he randomly told my dps so it I only did like a 1 min normal rotation maybe even shorter -shrugs- but now I'm curious to know an average dps a good blm should do.
(I don't use pots or food.)

[Sleigh]

Hey fellow black mage's.
I'm a ilv199 blm...I think...but anyway, what should my dps be around on a dummy?
My fc member told me my opener( The 6 fire 4's opener) was around 2000
and my normal rotation was about around 1300...I didn't even know he was scanning my dps until he randomly told my dps so it I only did like a 1 min normal rotation maybe even shorter -shrugs- but now I'm curious to know an average dps a good blm should do.
(I don't use pots or food.)

No one's gonna have a foodless, potless, i199 one minute parse reference to compare against, unfortunately.

[audi5000]

been struggling to maintain above 1400 a2s as a i186 blm.
some problems i noticed i had were starting / ending waves in really awkward places in my rotation. should i just follow a hard rotation no matter what and end up having situations like starting a new wave with maybe 1 fire cast worth of mana left, or should i try to make my ice stances longer so that i can end waves in a fresh astral fire more smoothly?
i currently pop rs on wave 3 and 7 from habit, but ideally i would love to pop it at 8 instead and squeeze another rs in between waves 3 and 8. is this correct?
is it ideal to try to keep enochian up in aoe rotation due to having to quickly switch from single target to aoe situationally, or should i simply time my enochians for times i will be single targetting for a while?
would appreciate clarification in regards to these questions, as well as any other suggestions for optimization. thx in advance

[Garotte14]

been struggling to maintain above 1400 a2s as a i186 blm.
some problems i noticed i had were starting / ending waves in really awkward places in my rotation. should i just follow a hard rotation no matter what and end up having situations like starting a new wave with maybe 1 fire cast worth of mana left, or should i try to make my ice stances longer so that i can end waves in a fresh astral fire more smoothly?
i currently pop rs on wave 3 and 7 from habit, but ideally i would love to pop it at 8 instead and squeeze another rs in between waves 3 and 8. is this correct?
is it ideal to try to keep enochian up in aoe rotation due to having to quickly switch from single target to aoe situationally, or should i simply time my enochians for times i will be single targetting for a while?

Here is the strat I use: Pull with F3 > Enochian > Sharp > F4 > F1 > F4 > F4. Now at this point I have a Firestarter and the first two mobs are dead. When the second phase spawns, I use my Firestarter to refresh AF3 and then Flare. Transpose and start AoE rotation until phase 2 dies. Phase 3 - I will F3 > RS > F2 > pot > F2x2 > Flare > Convert > Swiftcast > Flare > and everything is dead. Our monk also blows this up and with balance, its over so fast. Continue to AoE the 4th phase. Fire 2 X 2 > Flare > Transpose > Repeat. (I do not maintain enochian as flare is your hardest hitter so you want to do that as often and as quickly as possible) 5th phase - I will start single targeting with enochian rotation. Kill the first widow and then switch to the second. I'll usually hit each soldier once with a F4 and then stay on the second widow. When 6th phase starts, I'll continue the ST rotation, maintaining enochian and start with the hardmind, then switch the the gobwalker and then finally the Doll. Phase 7 - I continue ST on Dolls, refreshing enochian, ley lines, etc. I like to multi dot T1 during 5th, 6th, and 7th phases, spreading my TC procs around. Phase 8 - we gather everthying and I will use Phase 3 rotation; potion, raging strikes, flare, convert, flare, all that good stuff. Continue to AoE until everything is dead. Phase 9 - We ST the gobwalker and smoke it quickly, then switch to AoE for a few rotations. We personally separate the two widows and if we are able to do that before bangyzoom goes off, I'll just LB whenever. If bangyzoom does go off, I'll hold LB until right when everything gets stunned. LB kills everything except the doll, so just ST the last doll and two Widows and thats it.

I know that was in depth, and I'm not saying this is the best strat for BLM. Its what I personally use and usually end around 1800 or so.

[RajaVamberaux]

I'd appreciate it if the images for the openers, the first one was made a little larger. My old eyes can barely see the text..

Right Click.. Open in new Tab should help

[Lavitz_]

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[Waliel]

May the RNGods be with you.

[Maero]

Is the Mistbreak gear from Diadem?
Curious, also trying to see if any of the Ark gear is worthwhile
Though why so much acc? Way too much of that over other stats