BLM's Blizzard 4 needs a potency buff

[Rongway]

Why exactly is this needed? Blizzard 4 isn't meant to be "spammed" , its just used to get Umbral Hearts and that's it. But if you already have the hearts, you can skip Blizzard 4 entirely. What benefit does increasing the potency have?

OP is not suggesting it should be spammable. OP is referring to this:


The intended use of Blizzard IV is to generate three Umbral Hearts in order to buy a Fire and two more Fire IVs. However, these three extra fire spells do not make up for the time spent casting Blizzard IV in the first place. OP suggests an increase to Blizzard IV potency in order to make it worth casting as is intended.

OP's math is slightly off, though. In order for Blizzard IV to be worth using at all, the rotation that uses Blizzard IV would have to deal an additional 90 potency, more than the OP suggests.

irrational buffs to blm

No. BLM is already top dps by a nice margin. Next.

Snarky. The maths are easily reasoned. See above. As for its effect on BLM's maximal damage output, such an increase in potency would have a negligible effect--it would increase the P/s of the intended BLM rotation to just 0.0083 P/s over the short rotation, which is a gain of 1,000~1850 potency per fight (1.5% increase to DPS) for someone who is currently using the intended rotation, but only a gain of 3~5 potency per fight (a 0.0000476% increase to DPS) for someone who is currently using the short rotation.

[Karshan]

OP is not suggesting it should be spammable. OP is referring to this:


The intended use of Blizzard IV is to generate three Umbral Hearts in order to buy a Fire and two more Fire IVs. However, these three extra fire spells do not make up for the time spent casting Blizzard IV in the first place. OP suggests an increase to Blizzard IV potency in order to make it worth casting as is intended.

OP's math is slightly off, though. In order for Blizzard IV to be worth using at all, the rotation that uses Blizzard IV would have to deal an additional 90 potency, more than the OP suggests.





Snarky. The maths are easily reasoned. See above. As for its effect on BLM's maximal damage output, such an increase in potency would have a negligible effect--it would increase the P/s of the intended BLM rotation to just 0.0083 P/s over the short rotation, which is a gain of 1,000~1850 potency per fight (1.5% increase to DPS) for someone who is currently using the intended rotation, but only a gain of 3~5 potency per fight (a 0.0000476% increase to DPS) for someone who is currently using the short rotation.

I'm a "false beginner" BLM ; I'm confused in the second rotation as to what spells to use during ice phase to be sure you had the 2 mana ticks then ? When Xeno isn't active I mean, and if you casted thunder III again at that time wouldn't it be clipping the DOT quite largely ?