Black Mage Sanctuary - A Guide to DPS

[Maero]

That is the problem in itself, to be competitive spell speed is our absolute must.
Sure other jobs obviously benefit as example with skill speed, crit, etc..
But when you are a caster.... yeah
No idea what they have been thinking not only this patch but Heavansward in general, lol

[Lavitz_]

That is the problem in itself, to be competitive spell speed is our absolute must.
Sure other jobs obviously benefit as example with skill speed, crit, etc..
But when you are a caster.... yeah
No idea what they have been thinking not only this patch but Heavansward in general, lol

What about 3.2? That was a great patch for BLMs

[Garotte14]

Pretty much what I'm gonna aim for except I'm gonna take 2 Scripture rings and not an Alexandrian. Might change depending on A12S accuracy cap though.
Speaking of that, has anyone heard something about that yet? SSS dummies are updated with accuracy caps now and apparently A11S is already downed too.

I can't confirm this, but by taking a look at all of Alexander so far and the increase on accuracy for each floor, the accuracy cap for A12S should be somewhere around 648. Probably a few lower, but I think that'd be a good starting point.

[Lunafreya]

I'm really disappointed in the blm gear for tomes this patch.... some have such crap and unnecessary stats. No idea how I'm going to build my blm now except cntinue the new relic.

[Maero]

Well i was thinking more along the lines of when HW first came out, the gear at that time was bleh
2.x i was all in favor of determination, but in HW it really says nothing to me.
It's as if they just add whatever to gear now without really thinking about it, we loose much crit this patch also do we not?
Very sad indeed

[smallbeach]

just play smn for this patch tbh, all fights are smn fights, even the gear is, lol

[IllyriaKnotfred]

Well, from everything that I have read/heard about final Alexander- The secondary stats on gear... don't seem to matter much to me anymore. I'm not one of those guys where I need to top meters to be enjoying myself, and by the sounds of it they have all but removed DPS checks from all turns. It's all mechanics, no GOGOGO OR WE DIE dps checks. So with the knowledge of that, as long as the fights are fun, they can put whatever stats they want on my gear.

[Lavitz_]

just play smn for this patch tbh, all fights are smn fights, even the gear is, lol

BLM is really good in A9S and A10S, I've only done a few pulls of A11S so I can't comment on that or A12S.

[zuzu-bq]

just play smn for this patch tbh, all fights are smn fights, even the gear is, lol

Cleared A9S and Black Mage is just amazing there. Even your untraited Virus can be used on the Main Boss if you want or talk with your healers about it.

[Daemius]

Well i was thinking more along the lines of when HW first came out, the gear at that time was bleh
2.x i was all in favor of determination, but in HW it really says nothing to me.
It's as if they just add whatever to gear now without really thinking about it, we loose much crit this patch also do we not?
Very sad indeed

Yeah I highly doubt they have anyone actually putting thought into itemization beyond "This class CAN use SpS, Det, Crit" but don't take into context what secondaries the class actually wants. Very disappointing.