Black Mage Sanctuary - A Guide to DPS

[JackFross]

Anyone willing to share there crosshotbar setup for BLM ?

BLM is the only Job I have to 60 where I absolutely did not run out of hotbar room. I have so few slots that need to be filled that I actually have B2 and Freeze on my bars.
Set 1: the default I see


Set 4: extended - left side is L2>R2, right side is R2>L2


Set 2: I tab to this via just tapping R1 while my weapon is out. R1 cycles me through 1 and 2 with weapon out, and no others.


Basic reasoning: As with all my Jobs, I keep my main offensive skills on face buttons and all my most important buffs on Set 1 d-pad. Utility/defense stuff is always L2>R2 d-pad, and I kept Ice AoE on the ice side and Fire AoE on the fire side (with a few key skills doubled to make sure I can hit them from anywhere).

My Set 2 is generally "shit I never use" - as such Surecast, Physick, and Sleep found a home. <3

[thorgal]

If you're talking crosshotbar for controller:

Left Trigger: Up-Enochian, Right-Blizzard IV, Down-Blizzard, Left-Ley Lines, Triangle-Sprint, Circle-Flare, X-Swiftcast, Square-Raging Strikes.

Right Trigger: Up-Sharpcast, Right-Thunder, Down-Transpose, Left-Blizzard III, Triangle-Fire IV, Circle-Fire III, X-Fire, Square-Fire II.

Second set is pretty much the same Right Trigger, but left Trigger I have Virus, E4E, Potion, Lethargy, Quelling, etc. I keep my main attacks on the Right trigger so I can switch to Set two to use and oGCD and then start on new cast, then switch back to Set 1 during that cast.

Expanded Hotber: Up-Manawall, Right-Apocatastasis, Down-Manaward, Left-Convert, Triangle-Scathe, Circle-Thunder III (For Procs), X-Face Target Macro, Square-Aetherial Maniuplation. These are all my most frequent oGCDs and like access to them as quickly as possible.

BLM is the only Job I have to 60 where I absolutely did not run out of hotbar room. I have so few slots that need to be filled that I actually have B2 and Freeze on my bars.
Set 1: the default I see


Set 4: extended - left side is L2>R2, right side is R2>L2


Set 2: I tab to this via just tapping R1 while my weapon is out. R1 cycles me through 1 and 2 with weapon out, and no others.


Basic reasoning: As with all my Jobs, I keep my main offensive skills on face buttons and all my most important buffs on Set 1 d-pad. Utility/defense stuff is always L2>R2 d-pad, and I kept Ice AoE on the ice side and Fire AoE on the fire side (with a few key skills doubled to make sure I can hit them from anywhere).

My Set 2 is generally "shit I never use" - as such Surecast, Physick, and Sleep found a home. <3

thank you both !