Surecast and Blizzard II buffs

[Jonnycbad]

Remember that Summoners and healers use BLM cross class, which includes those abilities. Those Blizzard 2 buffs would take it from 50 potency to 170 or 290 total for an AoE. That is quite a bit in general, and may not feel like it to a BLM (I don't play BLM so I wouldn't know), but it would be a lot for other classes. For a frame of reference, SMN and SCH have their own AoE around caster with DoT ability, Miasma II, which has a whopping total potency of 70.

But the potency is from DoT, if you're spamming it for the initial damage, the DoT keeps resetting, so it's not as much potency as you think. Right now, people Blizz 2 spam adds after debuffs/heals are up, so it's not as drastic of a potency increase as you think.

[Waliel]

But the potency is from DoT, if you're spamming it for the initial damage, the DoT keeps resetting, so it's not as much potency as you think. Right now, people Blizz 2 spam adds after debuffs/heals are up, so it's not as drastic of a potency increase as you think.

Dots in this game tick server side every three seconds, all of them at the same time. Casting stuff again only resets the duration, but not the ticks, keeping the dot still rolling. It's because because dots don't stack with itself from the same source, it wouldn't be a huge buff, but a buff nonetheless; B2 is still the best spammable AoE spell for Summoners.

Now if Freeze had a 20p+/21s (240p+ total with base) dot on it, we could actually do F3 F2 F2 Flare Transpose Freeze F3 F2 Flare Transpose repeat AoE rotation. Maybe next expansion with Freeze 2 or something.