The Black Mage Rotations

[xyaie]

i could be wrong in this, but im pretty sure the game has an internal metrinome constantly ticking every 3 seconds on its on, serverwide, reguardless of what you do.

what i mean in this is: it seems to be a known that DoTs tick every 3 seconds, however it isnt like WoW where you apply a DoT and it waits 3 seconds to tick (also resulting in it ticking the very last second the DoT's debuff is on the target). DoTs tick on their own
TP regen is also similar, sometimes you will get a tick instantly, sometimes it takes the full 3 seconds and everywhere in between
Mana regen seems to work the same way. I've had my first spell refunded the moment the mana was taken, ive had it wait.

If this is correct, there is no macro that could fix it. A program could possibly do it, but im not seeing it a good idea to rely on it.

[evilsohn]

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what i mean in this is: it seems to be a known that DoTs tick every 3 seconds, however it isnt like WoW where you apply a DoT and it waits 3 seconds to tick (also resulting in it ticking the very last second the DoT's debuff is on the target). DoTs tick on their own
TP regen is also similar, sometimes you will get a tick instantly, sometimes it takes the full 3 seconds and everywhere in between
Mana regen seems to work the same way. I've had my first spell refunded the moment the mana was taken, ive had it wait.

If this is correct, there is no macro that could fix it. A program could possibly do it, but im not seeing it a good idea to rely on it.

Sadly it seems that this is true for mana regeneration.
I've tried the macro on one of the dummies and it would work sometime, and sometime it wouldn't.

[xyaie]

Sadly it seems that this is true for mana regeneration.
I've tried the macro on one of the dummies and it would work sometime, and sometime it wouldn't.

waiting for an addon that shows me the internal tick timer, so i can be better attuned with the universe and all.

[PessimiStick]

waiting for an addon that shows me the internal tick timer, so i can be better attuned with the universe and all.

I'm fairly certain it's actually 1 Eorzian minute, so if you set your in-game clock to Eorzian time, you should be able to see it. Not that there's much you can do in the way of actually timing things around it, but you can try!

[xyaie]

I'm fairly certain it's actually 1 Eorzian minute, so if you set your in-game clock to Eorzian time, you should be able to see it. Not that there's much you can do in the way of actually timing things around it, but you can try!

good eye, they appear to be on the same timer, trying to find a way to test it exactly, however like you were saying, i dont see it really helping much

[4649]

As someone suggested on this forum, I'm playing around with the following flare rotation.

F3 --> Flare --> Transpose --> B2 --> B2

After Transpose, sometimes I get my mana back right away and sometimes, I have to wait a few seconds.

Can anyone enlighten me on how the mana refill works so that I can try to get it right all the time?

Thanks in advance!

[PessimiStick]

Regen is on the same global tick as DoTs (3 seconds). There's no real way to game it.

[Youmu]

Regen is on the same global tick as DoTs (3 seconds). There's no real way to game it.

You can, sort of. It ticks every third Eorzea game clock tick. Not too hard to time up.

[PessimiStick]

You can, sort of. It ticks every third Eorzea game clock tick. Not too hard to time up.

It's every game clock tick (1 Eorzean minute), but since almost nothing you do is a multiple of 3 seconds, you can't actually do anything useful with that information.

[evilsohn]

I'll give it a try when I get home and post my results here