Quote Originally Posted by Realfoxy View Post
The relative buff BLM got in 7.1 was not 6% - how did you calculate that?

If you ignore the extra Ley Lines charge, the buff to the job was about 0.7%. Now let's assume that you have a short fight like M1S. Checking the top BLM logs, they kill M1S in a little over 7 minutes with about 40 casts of F4 contributing 12k/30k rDPS.

Ley Lines is 30/0.85 seconds of casting time in 30 seconds, so it gets you 5.3 seconds of extra casts. Your GCD is 2.42, now let's assume that you can perfectly align everything to get 3 extra casts of F4 out of your extra LL. 43/40 * 12k = 12.9, then 30.9/30 = 3% buff from extra LL being VERY generous.

Which means that under the most absolutely favorable conditions possible you could maybe consider it a 3.7% buff. Assuming that you played absolutely perfect during a full uptime fight. Fight goes longer? Buff is smaller. Don't align perfectly with the killtime and you only get two extra casts? Buff is smaller. Can't get an extra F4 and have to cast a weaker spell instead? Buff is smaller.

I don't know why people keep insisting on using the 7.1 numbers either. Saying BLM got the same skill debuff as PCT is just pure speculation when we can numerically estimate just how much BLM got buffed by and it's clearly not enough to close the rDPS gap, let alone put it ahead.

We wouldn't be having this conversation if SE did their jobs and actually "brought jobs to PCT's level" like they were saying. Or you know, paid attention to how literally everyone and their mother knew that PCT was going to break ultimate balance.
You also missed the flare buff, flare being instant cast shortened its GCD and made the rotation more accessible and flexible. It’s relatively a larger buff than the raw 3-3.5% that comes from leylines

And estimating 7.1 from 7.05 is exactly what I did, because doing it either way ends up achieving the same thing, either apply the buff on top of 7.05 or estimate the relative drop of the jobs and apply that in reverse. Either way it comes out roughly the same. Specifically because you can see that even though the skill level went down, BLM went up by 5-6%