Black Mage Sanctuary - A Guide to DPS

[Thela]

I got this on Reddit too... there's something about the Foul placement in the rotation (especially the 3.X one) that people forget.

Where you cast Foul has huge implications on your overall pps (and, by consequence, dps) of your overall rotation.

Okay but you will always cast foul in UI whatever you're doing 3.x or 4.0 rotation yes? Just because its available doesn't mean you have to cast it straight away, you have literally 30 seconds to cast it before it goes to waste so you just delay it for your next UI cycle whatever you're doing 3.x or 4.0 rotation. The pps is exactly the same in both rotations, it doesn't magically increase because you cast it as soon as it becomes available. That said, what you said above about using 4.0 if its not available, and 3.x if it is makes some kind of sense, would have to test those numbers, but i doubt it will change much since it would still be a pps loss if you then encounter movement when utilizing that 4.0 rotation eliminating any pps gain you just gained in the UI phase.

sometimes you hit 0 mp after f4, does that happen the same amount in 3.0 and 4.0 rotas? there foul has a slight advantage..

Won't happen in 3.x rotation because you know you can only get a maximum of 5xF4 casts off, you simply won't have enough mp to cast a 6th so it cannot happen. But it really depends on if you go out of UI and back to AF without full mp, it's just something you'll have to learn to account for, quickly check your mp before you start that last F4 cast and if you can see you won't have enough mp to cast B3 afterwards then don't cast that extra F4.