Black Mage Sanctuary - A Guide to DPS

[Maero]

+ 3 Weapon Damage over Relic, despite secondary stats still makes it better then Relic i would think, sadly or at least that has been my impression.
Myself i could care less and will keep Relic
Someone linked the image in this post, not sure if other stats may be available, no crit for instance
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...n-So-Far/page8

[Lunafreya]

+ 3 Weapon Damage over Relic, despite secondary stats still makes it better then Relic i would think, sadly or at least that has been my impression.
Myself i could care less and will keep Relic
Someone linked the image in this post, not sure if other stats may be available, no crit for instance
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...n-So-Far/page8

Yeah, it is random and I'm sticking with relic too. No point in the 280 as it just disrespects our time on the anima.

[Frizze]

You guys are looking at the weapon from post # 75 in the mutant thread. A couple hours later someone put up a better one - post 80 on the same page. Looking at it just makes me sad since i know ill never get one. I have immensely bad luck with random drops.

[Maero]

Yeah i have not checked afterwords but have now that you mentioned it. Bloody hell what a waste of time we have all done. Like seriously if only reason to add these weapons to Diadem was to get people to actually go there we know issues still exist with Diadem and resources could have been better used elsewhere. (3 jobs instead of the 2 maybe, etc..)
And just could have left Diadem as is for gathering only.

[GospelVhae]

Will healers hate me if I just tank the first optical on a11s? I want to turret my opener.

[enthauptet]

Will healers hate me if I just tank the first optical on a11s? I want to turret my opener.

As long as you don't get hit again from the next optical sight you should be fine.

[PomPomFlare]

Will healers hate me if I just tank the first optical on a11s? I want to turret my opener.

If healers don't like it, you get another healers.

[AkkoAihara]

Will healers hate me if I just tank the first optical on a11s? I want to turret my opener.

Use Manaward + ask for pull- adlo if running with sch if u're planing to tank first optical.

With manaward + adlo u most likely'll get 0 damage at all - so no vuln stack for ya too
With only manaward up u'll at least take quite a bit less damage

[GunksFoy]

I've been using the opener HaroldSaxon posted here recently and I've been hovering around 2550 DPS. (on a dummy so no party buffs)
I'm currently i257 with the i260 Anima. Is this a good number to be at or is there anything I can do to improve? I've been doing the 5x F4 casts in a row whenever Ley Lines is up too.
Not sure if it's important but my current INT is 1496 and I'm sitting at 1161 SpSpd

Out of curiosity, does this include a potion/food? When tested on the SSS dummy without a party, I hit around 2420 DPS despite being around the same ilvl with you with the same weapon. I did not use food or a potion however, so I'm wondering if I need to review my rotation/gameplay or if I just parsed low due to not using food and pots. Thanks!

[Maero]

To get a baseline measure or for accuracy purposes i would guess doing tests without food would be the way to go.
If you measure on the lower end you can then revise rotations, etc.. and not rely on food (even if you use it to raid)
Just my opinion