BLM: Endgame guide and rotations

[Akirakogami]

i find this whole "rotation guide" thing very silly.

keep dots up, switch to ice stuff when you run low on mana. spam fire 1.

[SirGazuntai]

Quelling Strike is not needed to maximize DPS. If you're stealing agro you just have a bad tank. For example, I'm i89 and I've ran Turn 4 with PLD's at i80 and they don't lose agro to the Soldier's in the second phase, nor do they lose agro to the bugs yet I've ran with i90 PLD's and WAR's who just aren't very good and lose agro to the Soldier's constantly.

Quelling Strike is only useful when your tank sucks. If they're decent you have no need for it.

i find this whole "rotation guide" thing very silly.

keep dots up, switch to ice stuff when you run low on mana. spam fire 1.

It's this kind of thing that makes people write guides like this. BLM is not BRD, they don't play the same way. Rotation guides are necessary when a lot of people don't know how to play their class. I've seen plenty of BRD and SMN who don't keep their dots up and they'd do well with a guide for those classes, too.

[Peptaru]

Quelling Strike is not needed to maximize DPS. If you're stealing agro you just have a bad tank. For example, I'm i89 and I've ran Turn 4 with PLD's at i80 and they don't lose agro to the Soldier's in the second phase, nor do they lose agro to the bugs yet I've ran with i90 PLD's and WAR's who just aren't very good and lose agro to the Soldier's constantly.

Quelling Strike is only useful when your tank sucks. If they're decent you have no need for it.

I know for a fact that I can steal hate with a crapton of frontloaded damage on a soldier in T4. It isn't optimal to do it, so we don't do it, but good tank or bad its easy to rip hate early. If you want to hit the ground running at full speed, there is no way around quelling strikes. That's why when we build rotations we usually open slowly so we can unload more consistently and safely as the fights progress. We being.. well.. all of us who aren't silly; me, you, any respectable blm.