Black Mage Sanctuary - A Guide to DPS

[NovaLevossida]

Posted this on reddit already, but figured I'd post here as well.

The new "Umbral Heart" stacks from using B4 in 4.0 negates the effect of AF on MP costs of Fire spells.

Effectively halving the cost of three F4's per AF phase. Will have to do the math when I have more time later, but essentially two extra F4's per AF phase with a third possible depending on the timings / MP costs and total MP pool.

And apparently piety is no longer going to be of any use for non-healers, according to the Google doc summary. 4.0 is going to be a wild time.

[nugglets]

And apparently piety is no longer going to be of any use for non-healers, according to the Google doc summary. 4.0 is going to be a wild time.

He did say that, but I'm actually hoping they didn't remove the PIE party buff from sch/ast because we're going to want that according to my preliminary math on the 4.0 rotation. And if they did, we're going to want some PIE materia.

The full write up is on Reddit here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/6cqqe2/_/dhy2l61

But the tl;dr is that we could have a clean six F4 rotation if the buff still exists, otherwise we're left with a bit of a mess if we want to do so. It's still workable, theoretically, but it's not very intuitive, relies on transpose(yuck) and lacks the flow of the previous rotations.

I really hope I missed something or am just flat out wrong, though.