Black Mage Sanctuary - A Guide to DPS

[Deathwraith]

Go back to page 213. I've posted it there.

I've tried to pull off that rotation but always end up losing Astral Fire and subsequently Enochian if I do not get Firestarter. I am currently at 1151 SS with food. Any tips or is there a video I could watch?

[PomPomFlare]

I've tried to pull off that rotation but always end up losing Astral Fire and subsequently Enochian if I do not get Firestarter. I am currently at 1151 SS with food. Any tips or is there a video I could watch?

Switch third Fire IV and Fire.

[Yeowood]

I've tried to pull off that rotation but always end up losing Astral Fire and subsequently Enochian if I do not get Firestarter. I am currently at 1151 SS with food. Any tips or is there a video I could watch?

You can definitely do it without Firestarter at lower spell speeds than that. I had around 1000 for a while and it was fine. You need to make sure there's as little downtime as possible between casts and queue actions during your casts by spamming the buttons so they start casting as soon as they are able. You may also need to meld some PIE to ensure that Blizzard 3 will still go off at the normal MP cost if AF3 happens to wear off during the cast.

I'm not sure what else it could be because you should be able to cast 4 F4 in a row with ley lines and convert, and not even using swiftcast, but as mentioned you can just do 3 F4, F1, 3 F4 and it's not too big of a difference.