Black Mage Sanctuary - A Guide to DPS

[Aikaal]

1: 1% reduction in your base GCD = 1% increase in DoT potency
2: The initial damage of spells are not affected, even thunderclouds

Also, haste abilities (ley lines, arrow, fey wind, etc) don't do anything for DoT tick potency.

Are you sure about that? Because I'm pretty sure I tested Aero and Shadowflare who are both 25 Potency DoT and Shadowflare seems to have a higher gain on Spell Speed for DoTs. To be exact, just the naked base DoT is stronger for Shadow Flare than Aero and this makes no absolute sense.

Not to mention that there are a few things that I have not seen tested.

1: SS Increases DOT "Potency" Direct Modifier to it.
2: The Next Thunder X will add it's full damage over time amount to it's initial damage - Is this value altered by the change to Thunder Dot Potency.

Example
T3 - with 1150 SS. Say this value changes the DoT Potency to 44.4 from 40/tick.

Would the T3 Proc be worth:
425.2 + 355.2 = 780 Potency

compared to at 354 SS:
390 + 320 = 710

Or

390 + 355.2 = 745.2
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All of which are fairly significant.

We really need more data for the gain on DoTs for spell speed lol.

But yes, and I will be adamant about it. A Thunder III Proc is a 710 Potency spell of a 2.5 Second cast. 745.5 With Enochian buff. Far more superior than any Fire III proc or that 529.2 Potency 3 Second cast Fire III. There's no way anyone should forsake Thunder and I don't think of any reason to used Sharpcast on Fire over Thunder or Thunder III. You can Sharpcast a proced Thunder III for an extra Thunder III. With 4 DoT clip, your Thunder III is 577.5 Potency. Still much higher than Fire 1 or even Fire IV. Even at 5 ticks clip Thunder III is better than Fire IV and this does not include the gain from Spell Speed on DoT damage.

If the DoT DPS gain is really 1% per 1% reduction then a full Thunder III proc would probably be around 800 Potency lol that's the damage of 2 Deathflare xD

Edit: The only reason I would drop Thunder is when I know the boss is about to go invulnerable (in about 10-15 seconds) or you need to burn an add in 10 seconds. Then yes, it is kinda silly to refresh a DoT