Black Mage Sanctuary - A Guide to DPS

[Mercutial]

Yeah... I think I'll just spring for the Lore wep asap. ESO up the Relic at a beyond leisurely pace... and pray the next stage allows customization.

[Garotte14]

I would do the relic to keep it up-to-date for when we can customize the stats, but plan on buying the lore weapon. Losing that much spell speed is just too detrimental.

However, if you don't raid and really only do dungeons and 24 man raids, you don't have to worry about stats as much. So getting the relic + other gear would be fine

[Mercutial]

Oh... I raid. If I didn't, I'd just spend the lore on Ilevels and call it a day. Just can't take that spellspeed hit though. Going w/ the Lore wep next week.

[Maero]

Or Sephiroth weapon if you have should keep you going for a bit, but agreed with Garotte, it's good to keep up to the pace for Relic even if the weapon currently is not of use

[MagiusNecros]

If all you care about is spell speed the anima weapon probably won't matter. If we can add materia later on it likely won't come close to the Lore weapons Spell Speed. Taking 100 loss of SpS is a heavy hit.

[audi5000]

hello amigos i play caster for my group but have spent 1k lore on my smn book already. with how much damage a8s requires, would it be worth dumping another 1k lore into a blm weapon abd switching to blm? my group hasnt needed the extra dmg a blm provides for a7s as of week 3, but we are unsure of just how strict a8s dps check is, and if blms objectively stronger single target being worth being behind on 2.5 weeks of lore

[Garotte14]

hello amigos i play caster for my group but have spent 1k lore on my smn book already. with how much damage a8s requires, would it be worth dumping another 1k lore into a blm weapon abd switching to blm? my group hasnt needed the extra dmg a blm provides for a7s as of week 3, but we are unsure of just how strict a8s dps check is, and if blms objectively stronger single target being worth being behind on 2.5 weeks of lore

I can't comment with 100% certainty because I rarely play SMN, but I can't imagine a SMN not being viable in A8S. There is lots of movement and with the adds, being able to multi-dot should be a nice advantage. I think one of the biggest advantages for A8S is Vitality. So if you can get more left side gear, I would think SMN would be just fine.

[Maero]

I would say since you already invested so much time and tomes into your smn to stick with it. Smn has the mobility advantage over blm and those dots.
Also how geared are you? I know some of my crafted and midan gear i can also use on smn

[IceSpear]

I found this on reddit and I was wondering what you guys think about blms using pie on their gear and if they should. https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme..._relevance_of/

[Lavitz_]

Anyone happen to know what accuracy is needed for A7S? Or the lowest that worked for you?