Black Mage Sanctuary - A Guide to DPS

[Tman00]

Maybe i don't get but with all these theoycraft things how do you guys even find a raid spot to test them out. Every single savage static i met so far flat out refuse to take more than single caster and that caster is always rdm. There's like zero reason to even bother with blm right now because no one wants to see you and nothing really gonna change any time soon. Or am i wrong?
Im pretty much forced right now to drop class i enjoy to play (blm) and start playing something i don't like if i want to progress futher in the game.

Until BLM gets potency increases and starts hitting slightly above SAM when turreting. not much reason to bring one when RDM buffs all the DPS and tanks in your party and has a clutch raise to help healers. Not to mention its competitive with BLMs personal DPS as well.
Unless a fight requires heavy AoE, BLM is just an inferior RDM.

[Gwaeron89]

Until BLM gets potency increases and starts hitting slightly above SAM when turreting. not much reason to bring one when RDM buffs all the DPS and tanks in your party and has a clutch raise to help healers. Not to mention its competitive with BLMs personal DPS as well.
Unless a fight requires heavy AoE, BLM is just an inferior RDM.

Thats the thing I keep hearing over and over and over again. Sounds like a good way to balance things..

[Tman00]

Thats the thing I keep hearing over and over and over again. Sounds like a good way to balance things..

By all means keep playing BLM if you enjoy it a lot. I know I enjoy it a lot.

But I sadly jumped ship to RDM for now until BLM gets the buffs it needs. I enjoy BLM, but when RDM is just insanely easier and consistent. Its hard to stick with BLM with where its atm.

[jamvng]

By all means keep playing BLM if you enjoy it a lot. I know I enjoy it a lot.

But I sadly jumped ship to RDM for now until BLM gets the buffs it needs. I enjoy BLM, but when RDM is just insanely easier and consistent. Its hard to stick with BLM with where its atm.

We'll see. I believe these buffs put us a good bit ahead of RDM for DPS. The cast time reduction and the elimination of the mana tick issue (6xF4 every time regardless of mana tick) is a decent DPS increase.

[Tman00]

We'll see. I believe these buffs put us a good bit ahead of RDM for DPS. The cast time reduction and the elimination of the mana tick issue (6xF4 every time regardless of mana tick) is a decent DPS increase.

B4 will still be not worth it sadly. There needs to be a damage increase to Umbral hearts to be worth using. The buffs really didn't fix the issue. And even if we do go past RDM in DPS. Its rDPS combined with its pDPS will still easily beat us.

[jamvng]

B4 will still be not worth it sadly. There needs to be a damage increase to Umbral hearts to be worth using. The buffs really didn't fix the issue. And even if we do go past RDM in DPS. Its rDPS combined with its pDPS will still easily beat us.

We'll see. Embolden is around a 1% rDPS, which is significant, but depends how much higher BLM pDPS is now. The buffs should give us 3.5-4% more DPS.