BLM Rotation

[Youmu]

Being new to MMO's all together with FFXIV I find all this talk about the "optimum rotations" odd....some players can come up with the best/optimum rotation on paper but IMO I have not seen the chance to have the same rotation every time because of actual battle scenarios that come up. I am only level 45 so I don't have Thunder3 or Flare but I do the best I can while trying to dodge AoE's, adds, etc and still try to maintain some sort of normal rotation that helps the party out the best way.

Allyrion, is the extra potency on a Thundercloud from T3 worth the extra half sec or is the "optimum rotation" still the main goal here by fitting T2 into the timing sequence?

Also I had a FC member tell me his rotation is F3 until MP is low and then uses F1...he told me he likes this because the crit is higher for F3. Is this taken into account on the "optimum rotation"

don't grill me too bad....

Your FC member was either trolling you or an idiot, pure F3 spam is marginally but undeniably worse than any other rotation. You use thunder2 for umbral phases, but thunder3 on proc activations for the bonus proc potency.

[johnbeck1000]

Your FC member was either trolling you or an idiot, pure F3 spam is marginally but undeniably worse than any other rotation. You use thunder2 for umbral phases, but thunder3 on proc activations for the bonus proc potency.

I thought he was being serious so I maybe I'm the idiot :-)

Thanks Allyrion for the helpful tips.