Black Mage Sanctuary - A Guide to DPS

[Kuroyasha]

Small stealth buff I noticed is enochian being somewhat more lenient with timings now. I have even seen the enochian buff drop from my bar and Blizzard IV cast still go off.

u mean like all the way off? Not 1 hitting 0 with icon still up, but like Wind and Venom Bite falling off all the way and iron jaws still resetting them right after.

[Sleigh]

I saw an Enochian drop-off > B4 hits today as well. Maybe it snapshots a little earlier with that AF/UI/proc change that happened? Hopefully it's not a placebo effect.

[Genoreaper]

I really don't feel a change with a ui extension but I do love the fact that the refreshes happen on cast now.

[Hontaro]

Another side effect is that you have to wait more after Transpose -> Mana Tick -> F3 to actually get a tick since AF3 will be acknowledged earlier than when it used to be.

[Sensyon]

Has anyone else noticed they time it takes to move cancel a cast has decreased as well? I used to be able to move at about .5-.6 seconds on a non-speed buff abilty and it would still cast. Now, its about .3 to .2 seconds. It could just be latency, but it feels very different.

[Kuroyasha]

I saw an Enochian drop-off > B4 hits today as well. Maybe it snapshots a little earlier with that AF/UI/proc change that happened? Hopefully it's not a placebo effect.

I just saw it. Felt like i had more leeway than iron jaws o.o.

Overall BLM casts are feeling buttery smooth now.

[Aikaal]

The reason why progression groups will stick with BLM is because of Apoc. Summoners will never provide that support. :P I do feel BLM is screwed until they get the God spell speed tier to make the 12 seconds AF usable. Otherwise it's doesn't feel anything changed.

[Cherub]

I'm really torn on what to do on A5S. My group couldn't get past the Hummelfaust (best attempt was 10%). I've tried several rotation (double thunder start FireIV, Double thunder double flare, double thunder Fire and keep my CDs for Hummelfaust, the normal single target roation). I just don't know what I should do especially because my groups parsers didn't work. I'm afraid I could be the problem because of my opener on those 2 Faust.

[HaroldSaxon]

F4 F4 F4 T3p SC F4 B3 is bad because you will drop AF3 and will have the long cast for B3. Aikaal's solution with Transpose is that you immediately do it after T3p, during the GCD.
This doesn't work in practice though, because you will have use F1 before the first F4 since B3 -> F3 the AF3 cuts into the GCD because of the lower cast time of F3.

I was talking about when we get enough spellspeed to do it.

[Waliel]

Another side effect is that you have to wait more after Transpose -> Mana Tick -> F3 to actually get a tick since AF3 will be acknowledged earlier than when it used to be.

I haven't noticed any of that. Feels like the UI just lasts longer and the F3 kicks in at the same time as before.