Black Mage Sanctuary - A Guide to DPS

[Ferrinus]

Sorry to pick this up late

However, in all the calculations done to get the result 4.0 is better than 3.0, we assumed a perfect server tic

This is wrong. Prior to patch 4.05, assuming T3 is literally the only spell we ever have to cast out of astral for any reason, using B4 does worse PPS than not using B4. Before procs of any kind, it's 137 on 4xF4 and 136 on 6xF4. Plus, 6xF4 is way more fragile.

Furthermore, assuming that you always get perfect mana ticks is obviously fraught, because you do not get perfect mana ticks and usually need two pieces of filler, not one. Even if Fire 1 hadn't gotten any cheaper and B4 gave you two bonus F4s rather than one, B4 would still be a bad spell to use on single targets.

It's true that it is impossible to increase Foul's dps, such that the damage output OF FOUL ITSELF is constant... but the point is that A) Blizzard 4 decreases our dps and B) Foul can be used to increase the rest of our dps by replacing crappy spells, totally irrespective of the 650 potency Foul itself delivers.