Black Mage

[Sfia]

I generally agree, but really now, clipping one GCD during ice in a 8min fight is nothing. Your normal damage variance is larger than that, and critting once over your statistical average nets you more DPS than that one Manashift loses.

every gcd clip can potentially cost you hundreds of potency, and there are dozens of situations in the game currently where this is the case. Simply saying "if you crit once you make up for this loss" is a flawed argument as you would have the potential extra global as well as the crit without it.

SMN does lose out on a Wyrmwave by using Addle and maybe has to use Ruin 2 instead of 3. If of course every needed Addle lines perfectly with Bahamut that's a different story.

As Freyja said, addle is not required for bahamut.