The Ultimate Black Mage Resources with Damage Calculator

[Burrmanchu]

OMG thank you Lordshinato! Finally. I was in the purgatory that is between dat mines being done and dat mines being shown. Since Yoshi's "request" that is... <_<

[Burrmanchu]

For those who were thinking of going Au Ra data mining has brought the base stats:
AU RA Starting Racial Stats:

Xaela: 23 str. 20 Dex. 21 Vit. 20 Int. 17 Mnd. 19 Pie.
Raen: 17 Str. 21 Dex. 18 Vit. Int 20. Mnd 22. Pie 22.

Raen would end up probably being a better choice because of slighly higher Piety.

Yeah they're both 20INT the number and letter places have just been typed differently on the last 3 stats <_<

edit nvm.. you mentioned 3 extra INT somewhere but it didnt quote it in my post. ninja edit ftw.

[Judge_Xero]

NIN actually got off better than us. Theirs was nerfed but also buffed in a way, as it will now work on magic and physical. We still have Manaward but now we're sharing it basically.

Yeah. Was just a bit sad to see that nerf to BLM. I feel like it's even worse too because BLM has lower Physical Defense, so any damage that makes it through, hurts much more. I always thought that the original Manawall was such a nice fit for BLM for that reason.

If you look at the bliz4 tooltip it states it gives the additional effect of Enochian, although u have to be in Enchian and UI to use it.

Definitely appears that SS/Crit will be the way to go. With bigger numbers than Flare every Crit will have more returns.

Yeah I was looking at that earlier. So once you are in Enochian, BlizzIV is you filler to keep up Enochian. So it looks like your rotation is just:

Opener -> Thunder -> Sharp -> F1 -> F3 -> RS + Enochian + Leylines -> Insert # of F4 Casts + F1 to keep up Astral-> SC Flare -> Convert -> F4 -> F4 (using any F3 Procs and possibly 2.125s Cast time on Fire 4 - High Spell Speed + Leyline on 3s Cast)

Continued Rotation -> B3-> Thunder -> B4-> F3 -> F4 -> F4 -> F1 -> F4 -> F4 -Repeat

[Lordshinato]

Snip

Opener -> Thunder -> Sharp -> F1 -> F3 -> RS + Enochian + Leylines -> Insert # of F4 Casts + F1 to keep up Astral-> SC Flare -> Convert -> F4 -> F4 (using any F3 Procs and possibly 2.125s Cast time on Fire 4 - High Spell Speed + Leyline on 3s Cast)

Continued Rotation -> B3-> Thunder -> B4-> F3 -> F4 -> F4 -> F1 -> F4 -> F4 -Repeat

Pretty much. When convert is down, you could use transpose and wait for tick.
Ideally if u can hold into a firestarter proc during the UI phase u can go back to AF with full MP and Enochian up.

[Waliel]

The biggest thing I hated about Enochian was that refresh mechanic and it's gone! Hurray! The thing looks pretty good now.

[Waliel]

Around 1.75 crit multiplier with 546 crit at level 50. 1100-1200 or so F1 hits and almost 2100 crits.

E: Now it's only like 1900 crits. Was I dreaming oO?

[melflomil]

my fire 1 crit use to be 1700 in ARR. so that's a big bump lol

[Sleigh]

Anyone find anything different about F2? Anything at all? Tested potency, range, MP ... all exactly as tooltip says, which is exactly what it was pre-3.0.

BTW SMN's Bane affects all enemies now. I'm sensing some favoritism towards SMN this patch ...

[melflomil]

Anyone find anything different about F2? Anything at all? Tested potency, range, MP ... all exactly as tooltip says, which is exactly what it was pre-3.0.

BTW SMN's Bane affects all enemies now. I'm sensing some favoritism towards SMN this patch ...

No they just made it even. All freaking AOEs dont have any hit limitation only bane did. Now it can spread to all target and the potency gets cut in half after the forth mob and on

[Pluvia]

NIN actually got off better than us. Theirs was nerfed but also buffed in a way, as it will now work on magic and physical. We still have Manaward but now we're sharing it basically.

Tooltip Error it only works on physical damage source myself trying to eat magic aoes