Black Mage Sanctuary - A Guide to DPS

[Renius]

The rotations on the first page were built in 3.0 almost a year and a half ago. They are no longer even remotely close to what you should be doing for your opener. You should even try avoiding casting 2 oGCDs in a row with our current Spell Speed. Currently, I adjust my opener very slightly depending on the fight for the use of Swiftcast, but most optimal opener is:


Precasting both Ley Lines and Enochian, allow you to weave your potion under Firestarter. If you get a second Firestarter, you are weaving SC under that for added PPS.

Sorry I am a new BLM what potion is everyone referring to?

[Aikaal]

Sorry I am a new BLM what potion is everyone referring to?

The highest Intelligence potion you can afford. It's not specified because there's like 3 different potion you can get from Heavensward.

[Maero]

I use the draconian potion of int (HQ) but others may exist, have not looked up potions last patch
Also, and this is end game only some food will be useful.
Difference among other stuff between food and potion being food last around 30 mins or more, potions are just to get a boost at certain points in your rotation.

[Garotte14]

Sorry I am a new BLM what potion is everyone referring to?

X-potions of Intelligence at a bare minimum. Anything lower than that is too insignificant. I.E. Hi potions and Mega potions. After X-pots is Draconian. Max Potions are stronger than Drac pots, and finally Supramax potions of intelligence are the most powerful currently; although highly expensive and really only used if you're going for speed kills in raid.

[Tarta]

So I got 1020 SpellSpeed with food, and I got 2 Materia slots open.
Question is, the optimal nearby spellspeed number is 1021; should I slot another SpellSpeed for that 0.01s with another Crit? Or 2 Crits?
(Also: found our FFXIV rounds down all decimals...BS)

[Maero]

There is no limit to spell speed, if you can add it do so otherwise slot in crit.
Some instances you may want to add crit, what gear do you have to slot?
1020 is not bad but i will say the higher the better

[DarkerOrange]

There is no limit to spell speed, if you can add it do so otherwise slot in crit.
Some instances you may want to add crit, what gear do you have to slot?
1020 is not bad but i will say the higher the better

There is no limit, but SS works in set intervals. Any SS that doesn't push you into the next tier is essentially wasted.

[Renius]

There is no limit, but SS works in set intervals. Any SS that doesn't push you into the next tier is essentially wasted.

What are the tiers?

[Tarta]

There's a google doc out there with all the tiers and numbers, I just don't have it with me at the moment. (1021 is a critical number...but I'm at 1020 with Alex Rod...so I have to stick with shire unless I can settle the decision)

[Dusk278]

Anyone got a BIS update list or lists that I can use to compare notes? Also if anyone got the tier list for Spell Speed like that fellow aboved me mention that will be cool too because the max SS I can get with food is like 1245 atm