Yeah, not impossible to adapt, we are not broken in terms of numbers, etc etc, It still sucks, and yes, if we were to take advantage of every firestarter proc we would get more dps out (not THAT much, but a significant small amount).

It just sucks honestly. And yes it would be near impossible to do so, idk if it's fail proof but usually casts go off at about 70% regardless (for these lenghts anyway).I havent had the chance toe xtensively test it nor adapt to it, obviously the more we play the better we'll adapt, and yes longer casts etc etc are like that.


Something that pisses me off a lot though is sometimes if I had long duration on thunder too, I would B3 and instant F3, that would still get me the mana tick from UI3 and leave me well high on mana (about 70%?). Now this is still doable, but it's not realiable, I could do this with 0 margin for error, now it's clunky, granted I'm still getting used to it and just by playing some I minimized this to happening once rarely, but it still sucks sometimes miscalculating and seeing you get the tick too fast and losing time over it, sure, no big difference in the end numbers, but come on, breaks the fluid gameplay of BLM, I was never one to wait for mana ticks solely, with the short exception of a switch between UI3 from B3 just casted to using a firestarter proc back into AF3. bBut well, it does completely suck when you try to switch back right away, and see you missed your calc and are like DERP, pseudo OOM (still enough mana to B3 again) but derp, i just b3 f3 for nothing, cause I have to b3 again and wait for tick again. It hurts.

However, something really good about this came out. No more feeling "guilty" from going back to AF3 from UI3 with a firestarter proc, losing that amazing doubledip fast cast. Now it's all the same. ^^

And in fact if you want to add some different spell right away after switching 8which yes, is not optimal, but can still happen) you still don't lose that double fast cast (CAUSE IT AINT THAR, derp!).

What is annoying, once again, is how broken some mechanics are, and instead of fixing what's broken, they just pile more up on top of it.