Please reconsider 7.0 BLM changes

[JoshiKousei]

The transpose-F3P isn't optimal any more, though, since it looks like (true to the published tooltip) AF3 and UI3 don't reduce the opposite element's damage at all. This means that you get the same average damage using F3P in astral vs. saving your proc for the umbral->astral swap (and therefore that choosing to do one or the other is the main way to adjust the length of your astral cycle over the course of a fight).

>A spell of the opposite element can be cast at no cost but will deal reduced damage

This is taken straight from the media tour build so transpose f3p is still optimal.

[Ferrinus]

>A spell of the opposite element can be cast at no cost but will deal reduced damage

This is taken straight from the media tour build so transpose f3p is still optimal.

The AF3/UI3 tooltips fail to mention any damage penalty even though the ones for 1 and 2 mention 10% and 20% respectively. This might just be a mistake (the basic Aspect Mastery tooltip fails to mention that AF1 increases fire damage at all, but presumably the 40% increase remains) but I watched Rinon's video closely and noticed that Fire III did ~13k damage on hit out of neutral aspect but that it and Blizzard III continued to deal ~13k damage when used to swap aspects.

[JoshiKousei]

The AF3/UI3 tooltips fail to mention any damage penalty even though the ones for 1 and 2 mention 10% and 20% respectively. This might just be a mistake (the basic Aspect Mastery tooltip fails to mention that AF1 increases fire damage at all, but presumably the 40% increase remains) but I watched Rinon's video closely and noticed that Fire III did ~13k damage on hit out of neutral aspect but that it and Blizzard III continued to deal ~13k damage when used to swap aspects.

UI3 lists -30% dmg to fire spells in the JP tooltips.

[Ferrinus]

UI3 lists -30% dmg to fire spells in the JP tooltips.

Ah, then you're right. This means transpose into F3P is still a gain, and we'll be choosing between using the guaranteed Firestarter for safety in astral phase or for damage coming out of umbral phase (and this second thing also requires being able to profitably cast Xeno or Thunder).