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    Acidblood's Avatar
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    Sylvaria Molkot
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    Behemoth
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    Black Mage Lv 80
    Quote Originally Posted by RyeMinx View Post
    You did some math here wrong... Fire 4s base cast is 2.8s.... so how do you have it as 3.29s?

    My cast speed at ~1700 SpS is 2.3s for Fire and 2.57s for Fire 4. Do the math, 4 of those spells is 10.01s. Plenty of time for wiggle room. I believe you read the cast time for Fire 3, which does have a longer cast time, but we don't use it except for leaving UI, which means it's cast time is cut in half.

    Also, when it comes to how punishing it is too lose, 3.X was way worse. Eno had a 60s cooldown, so if you messed up your 1st rotation, you lost it for 20-40s. Now if you lose it, at most it can be down for is 17s.

    When it comes to keeping eno up, it's also way easier to keep up now. In 3.X, you HAD to press B3(or transpose I guess) and B4. In 4.X, we now only have to press 1 button, whether that be transpose or B3.

    We don't need anymore eno changes. Only thing I would want is a change to umbral hearts, they feel useless and just tacked on to make us use B4, and we dont even need to use it all the time.
    Thanks for the correction, I did indeed accidentally read the Fire III tooltip by mistake :/
    Which almost makes it worse, as that gives me a 2.76s margin (assuming no lag), but somehow that rarely feels like enough; guess I just have to keep practicing (and un-learning old habits)...

    Also, I consider what is lost, more so than the potential lock-out, to be the bigger punishment (at least in terms of gameplay feel, if not overall DPS).

    And how are Umbral Hearts useless? Yes, they feel a little tacked on, but they at least allow for longer Fire phase up-time, and it is often a case of waiting for MP while in UI anyway, so why not cast Blizzard IV (regardless of it's strict 'need')?

    Edit: As for not needing any more Eno changes... it depends what your objective is; if BLM is be a class that is severally, and potentially frequently, punished for small mistakes in timing, then no; but if you look at the number of classes with next to zero punishment short of death, then BLM is definitely an outliner.
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    Last edited by Acidblood; 08-29-2017 at 11:06 AM.