The Ultimate Black Mage Resources with Damage Calculator

[Aikaal]

some interesting points have been made about the new BLM abilities.. agree with most... but im a lil curious. people are saying they start with fire 3 for the opener? whats wrong with leylines+sharp cast f1,enochian,fire 3 proc,swiftcast f4?

I compared my rotation with the rotaiton of another BLM in my FC. Assuming you have Piet buff from party (Which you should have) You can

QS > Sharpcast > Leylines > Swift F3 > Enochian > Raging Strikes > F1 > F4 x3 > F3 Proc > Convert > F4x3 > B3 > Mana Tick > B4

Regardless the time you wait for your mana tick, it seems to be the highest damage opener. At least, this is the rotation I've came up that was the highest damage. Issue is Cooldowns do no sync together.

My biggest concern and dislike on Ravana Ex is those damn butterflies that have 10k health and you start a F4 and this DRG destroys your target and you've successfully lost 3 seconds of your parse. No matter what I'm trying to do to max my dps, I feel I can only get to good Summoners being a God and if I were to go Summoner and play it like a God, I'd pummel my BLM. They seem equal on a dummy.

[Tman00]

Farmed Ravana for like 3 hours. Highest parse I gotten was 766, on average I'd say my DPS within the fights I was 710 average with ilvl 162 with the opener rotation I use. This is of course with Foes playing here and there. Either way, BLM takes a lot more effort to be good in fights and in progression, I don't know if they'll be good for that considering most fights are move heavy. That is of course I can just Turret all day like in T8.

[Twilite]

I really hate to sound opposing, but it doesn't matter what anyone can do on a dummy. It is what you can do against actual mechanics, that's where everything counts. Dummies don't move, don't attack, don't auto-target you with AOEs whenever you pop leylines, etc. You can blast a dummy for 1000 dps, but you're not gonna do that against a boss that is jolly rogering all over the damn area.

I've been wondering, people are saying that playing blackmage to it's maximum potential makes you at the mercy of RNG, but is there a way to have a "safe" rotation that doesn't cripple your dps too much for when unpredictable mechanics might happen? Why would it imply cast wise and how much dps would you lose?

The ARR rotation revolves around knowing when to go into Umbral Ice(just using Bliz 3 doesn't cut it) at the right moment. Otherwise you're gonna sit there for 3 seconds with not enough mp to go back into Astral Fire(and by extension..waiting for full mp). So it has its difficulties as well.

[einzele]

A question, how do u guys handle with thunder proc if it doesnt last till umbral phase?
Enochian is so tight that if i use thunder in astral phase i need to cut 1 f4, is it worth it?
My opener is as follow
T1 > ley > b3 > sharp > f3 > enoch > f1 > rs > f4 x 3 > f3 > f4 > sc flare convert > f4 > b3

[OneWingedSora]

snip.

Nah, it isn't worth using TC in astral fire.


opener: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0ZU8hpwl_I

[willowmyer]

I think the comments in this thread far out way my initial observations

http://redd.it/3b4fr1

I really don't think BLM dps should be compared to other dps parses when it's based off of dummy numbers....it's just not a realistic expectation of what our realistic dps is in most encounters.

From reading the comments I think the biggest takeaway is that we have 2 GL stacks to manage and BLM recovery takes vastly longer than other GL-like rotations.

[Meleoffs]

Nah, it isn't worth using TC in astral fire.


opener: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0ZU8hpwl_I

Slightly off topic, tell Gera Gera Adreius says hi and that he should get back on his old server and say whats up some time. :<

On topic, is aoe rotation the same as before? Also when do you use sharp cast outside of the opener?

[Sleigh]

Slightly off topic, tell Gera Gera Adreius says hi and that he should get back on his old server and say whats up some time. :<

On topic, is aoe rotation the same as before? Also when do you use sharp cast outside of the opener?

AoE rotation is the same as before with slight differences.

- Cast Enochian > RS after F3, don't bother refreshing it with B4
- Can't pot to Flare again depending on level, nor can you Convert > F2 > Flare
- You hit like a wet noodle to half the pull. Focus your Flare on higher HP enemies if you can still hit everything, try not to stay on one the enemy the entire pull
- Leylines is nice but it's also annoying. You can use Leylines but you have to delay the F3 really bad. I usually use Leylines on the first pull at the start and the first pull after bosses, and then save for the boss because it's barely an AoE increase

[Meleoffs]

Alright, thats pretty much what I figured. Thanks

[myonko]

You can use Leylines but you have to delay the F3 really bad.

Well you can step out of Leylines for the F3 cast