Black Mage Sanctuary - A Guide to DPS

[Shiroe]

and you still lose enochian (meaning astrals) easy, and than can't do fire4s till eno cd is up again

[affenmensch]

anyone experiencing random enochian drops without any reasons to drop?
some example:
transpose 2-4 times from trashpull to trashpull to begin with blizzard4, and because of muscle memory from heavensward i use eno at the start before casting blizzard4 again, but eno drops then without any reason, sometimes direct, somtimes later
this is just an example, it happens in other situations too, astral and umbral still more than 5 seconds left so it should not drop

[Shiroe]

I'll observ more, ... had a feeling of losing eno sometimes unexpectedly, when I shouldnt have, ... might just be me tired of nonstop gaming since SB release

[Maero]

I had noticed it Linari, then again i just wonder because of the state of the server it may be the cause of some crazy things

[Shiroe]

and the "timer drop off" of enochian is tighter than before, in the past when it hit last "1 sec" of enochian (or astral), you still had like a full second to finish a cast or transpose; ... now when you reach the the last 1 sec on the timer, it's actually like hitting zero sec, it falls of almost instantly at 1 sec..

but still can't fully explain some of the wierd enochian loses..

besides that, wondering if it's not better to transpose at the last second, and therefore get one more fire 4 off, .... instead of the usual ice 3 (than ice 4), since you'd be casting ice 3 at ca. 3-4 sec on the timer, when you could actually do one more fire 4 than transpose instead of a ice 3.., and than gointo ice 4 afterwards have time for mp to tick up (if not even do a thunder as filler)

[Shiroe]

SE says, they extended astral fire/ice by one second, ... but in fact they didn't, when you reach the last second on the astral timer it's over, when you should in fact still have one second left..., SE should fix that, also to compensate some server lags

[Maero]

Confirmed again tonight on multiple occasions enochian dropping prematurely, it is to the point to be very very annoying.

[Hasrat]

I'm not really a fan of how quietly astral/umbral fall off now. The visuals I could care less about, we've always had the orbs to check if nothing else. But now that it's not a tracked buff, we don't get that sound effect when it drops. So now during long pulls or movement phases or whatever, I don't always notice that I need to transpose to keep something running.

Other thing I've noticed. Now that Thunder upgrades to III, I feel like it doesn't fit as well as an astral filler for me here at 50. After the Fires and Blizzard III, I used to have enough MP (usually) to cast Thunder if I never got any Thundercloud procs (if I had a proc, it was still ticking so I would opt for different filler). But doing the same thing, after Blizzard III now, I never seem to have the MP for Thunder III hard cast. And if I have to wait for a server tick for MP, is the DoT really worth it rather than swapping right back to Fire at that point?

I'm sure the rest of you are all up learning all the new things at the top, but, anyone else noticing/feeling this effect?

[Shiroe]

blm needs some fixes, hope SE addresses it..., it's become harder to use for multiple reasons.., of which some simple tweaks could fix..

it's almost blm 3.0 all over again..

[Psycofang]

When i get home im going to start timing it because either im completely insane or i swear the last few seconds of enochian speed up.