Black Mage Sanctuary - A Guide to DPS

[Marianno]

Awesome, I did not include the leylines/eno/lucid because I assume that most BLM know to use that so I only wanted to show just the attack spells. This helps greatly though and I thank you. Should we use triplecast in the opener or should we just save it for when we have to move? I have found myself saving swiftcast and triplecast for when we have to move and it is usually within the first 60 to 90 seconds (I think) that we will have to move in a lot of SB fights (boss) for that matter. What are your thoughts?

[Deathgiver]

Why would you use lucid at the beginning?

[Tingaling]

You need to use it if you want your infusion pot to reach after your foul if u get a thunder proc or if you want to get ur foul and thunder 3 refresh in

[Tingaling]

because i'm not sure if lucid will give me the MP tick before i start my fire rotation so I use it just incase

[Marianno]

I use Lucid and diversion to keep my aggro to a minimum. I start with lucid because I do a lot DF and a lot tanks I come across nowadays do not start with enmity generating combos (they get their buffs up first). A lot of physical DPS burst and go hard without giving the tank time to do anything. So I also use diversion to stop aggro generation to allow for tanks and healers to get some DPS in. I hate seeing my character perish but I love seeing physical DPS users get cleaved to death and die because they want to play tank. Lucid and diversion are my best friends, especially with the enmity issues in this expansion.

[Marianno]

You need to use it if you want your infusion pot to reach after your foul if u get a thunder proc or if you want to get ur foul and thunder 3 refresh in

Awesome, this makes a lot more sense. I need to rework my rotation and understanding of the BLM skills. Thank you for all your help.

[Thela]

I use Lucid and diversion to keep my aggro to a minimum. I start with lucid because I do a lot DF and a lot tanks I come across nowadays do not start with enmity generating combos (they get their buffs up first). A lot of physical DPS burst and go hard without giving the tank time to do anything. So I also use diversion to stop aggro generation to allow for tanks and healers to get some DPS in. I hate seeing my character perish but I love seeing physical DPS users get cleaved to death and die because they want to play tank. Lucid and diversion are my best friends, especially with the enmity issues in this expansion.

All valid points and i feel the same way basically, but you do know that using lucid when you have 0 enmity will still leave you at 0 enmity? in other words it cuts your CURRENT enmity in half and has no influence on whatever enmity you generate afterwards. I normally use it if i start seeing yellow/orange targets on enmity list to dump my enmity in half on all targets, or god forbid if i happen to pull aggro on something, can use it to instantly drop aggro and make the mob return to (hopefully) the tank.

Using diversion on pull however is greatly beneficial.

[Psycofang]

Diversion then lucid when closing in on #1. Dont lucid at the start as its a waste.

[Marianno]

Sound advice, thanks, I will need to switch those in my rotation. Also, is there an optimal amount of spellspeed we should aim for? Some are saying 1600+ is good. Do you think that we may be able to hit 2000+? Pending we get higher ilvl increase with spellspeed on gear or is it possible to hit that now? I have been reading that there is a such thing as too much spellspeed but I do not know how truthful this is. Sorry about all the questions, just trying to get better at optimizing at BLM and possibly try out some EX-Primals seeing as how I only did a few but really enjoyed the few that I did.

[Psycofang]

1600 should be a norm to shoot for im sitting at a little over 1700 and have a 2.75 cast time on f4 and b4 with f3 approaching the high 2 seconds.
I can definitely feel the jarring clunkiness of blm slowly disappearing. Lets just hope theres no eikon gear vs primal incident again as are gear increases.