Black Mage Sanctuary - A Guide to DPS

[thorgal]

i cannot remember if i asked this question before but i cannot find it on the old pages so might as well do it here :

Anyone willing to share there crosshotbar setup for BLM ?


Thanks very much in advance .

[KidBrawl]

Recently I have my BLM at i220 as shown here

13 IV crit, 3 IV SS. So, I did A5S with another BLM. I think it was i218 cause they had a crafted top, midan pants, lore head/boot piece and lore ring. The rest mixed between craft and Midan, all melded. Their stats were 805 crit and 915 SS. This BLM's DPS was better than mine only using a 2.0 rotation on the double Faust and using the fire 1+sharp opener on hummelfaust. My opener on double was sharp->hardcast T3 in countdown -> dot other Faust with proc -> swift blizzard 3 -> normal enochian rotation no big CDs until hummelfaust. Now, I recently changed this rotation a little and put enochian before the hardcast T3 and swift Fire 3 for a little more burst on the Faust and the enochian resets as hummelfaust lands. But this BLM out DPS me by 150-250 every time. Just how?

[Cnidarian]

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I'm not an expert as a BLM as I just changed over to it from being a WHM main, but ilvl doesn't mean a whole lot if your stat optimization is off. In your case, I see you having a lot of accuracy and determination that would be better off as SS and Crit.

[Garotte14]

13 IV crit, 3 IV SS. So, I did A5S with another BLM. I think it was i218 cause they had a crafted top, midan pants, lore head/boot piece and lore ring. The rest mixed between craft and Midan, all melded. Their stats were 805 crit and 915 SS. This BLM's DPS was better than mine only using a 2.0 rotation on the double Faust and using the fire 1+sharp opener on hummelfaust. My opener on double was sharp->hardcast T3 in countdown -> dot other Faust with proc -> swift blizzard 3 -> normal enochian rotation no big CDs until hummelfaust. Now, I recently changed this rotation a little and put enochian before the hardcast T3 and swift Fire 3 for a little more burst on the Faust and the enochian resets as hummelfaust lands. But this BLM out DPS me by 150-250 every time. Just how?

You have way too much accuracy. 100+ over accuracy needed in A8S. Biggest problem is the Chest piece. All of them are bad except for the A8S Chest and the Crafted one. Crafted chest is best option until you can get the Midan chest. And you also have to think about your party and party composistion. Assuming Everyone is using their big buffs as soon as Hummelfaust drops. Personally, I double dot the Fausts and just 2.0 rotation them. TC procs usually keep my dps high. Then I standard Sharp > F1 on Hummelfaust. I end at 1800+ at i218. I'm i221 now so we'll see how tomorrow goes, but your main issue is gear set. You need more Crit and SS and a whole lot less acc.

[Garotte14]

i cannot remember if i asked this question before but i cannot find it on the old pages so might as well do it here :

Anyone willing to share there crosshotbar setup for BLM ?


Thanks very much in advance .

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.

[Cherub]

Are you going with the 1 SS ~= 0.4 INT? No one has proven that to be right, and it sounds waaaaay too much to my ears.

Yes I did. But even if SS in reality is 0.2, the crafted piece will be better. First and foremost because it's not packed with accuracy. Secondly 5 Melds available and lastly SS -reduces- cast which is very rewarding at times. I know you just talked about the statweights and didn't say the 220 piece is worse or the likes. But I was just making it clear.

Do you mean the crafted chest Cherub? It seems way better so i finally grabbed it the other day
Plan on adding about 3 materia for crit and perhaps some determination.
My acc is around 588 so not sure if i should meld a bit of acc as well

Yes, the 220 piece I talked about is the crafted one. (HQ ofc)

[Maero]

Ah yes, well i did reach acc cap with midan gloves yesterday so can finally meld my coat

[Wrokk]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...C8EiyGLI/edit#

Shameless bump. This has been very valuable for learning the class.

[Judge_Xero]

Ah yes, well i did reach acc cap with midan gloves yesterday so can finally meld my coat

What are the best melds? I almost started with CRT V's but then remembered that DET IV's were crap, so went

DET V X 2 -> CRT IV X 3

[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