BLM Buffs Inc!

[ViviAnimus]

I see soms Black Mages who have overmelded gear. I go with the Coil drops and try and build a SS build. My determination was like 230, critical hit around 500 and spell speed around 480. I see some Black mages with 335 determination which is 115 more than what I have. If it's true that 1 intelligence is about 5 det, than that's 23 intelligence and that is a lot! Sometimes I think that spell speed is absolutly usesless, regardless of what people say.
But yeah, it just shows that your simplistic reasoning, Uninstall, just doesn't cut it. There are multiple factors that might cause more DPS. One: the claim can be purely false, two the gear might differ and three I might indeed be less skilled than others, which is actually very true.
But again, I demand solid proof.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntWUqpFcuBk
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...acter/1720787/

This is a video before I actually used AE and learnt to manage better and I have improved quite a bit since then. I will put up videos of T6 and T7 and then we'll see what goes wrong.

[Halloween]

I agree with you, vivi. I'd like to see proof rather than just claims. I know I have room to improve, but sustained 340dps blm on t6 (and even more on the t7+8) is highly doubtful and i'd like to be proven wrong.

[blackermage]

@Vivi
I don't record runs, though I do have some outdated parses from ACT (I usually stop parsing once we 1-shot the encounter i.e. the week following the first clear). Would those be sufficient?
I can clearly say though for each turn I play as greedily as possible to do as much DPS as possible.

[ViviAnimus]

It wouldn't hurt at all. But of course I am looking for 300+ DPS on T6 and T7. T6 should be absolutely possible, I say. But yes, it would be appreciated.

[Infina]

It seems weird to me that you say that the other monk forgot FoF and that he's very very bad. It's almost as if your friend told you this in order to prove a point?

Yes, his "friend" is very very bad.

[Halloween]

^ i think that one went over your head, vivi

[ViviAnimus]

Yes, yes. But let us not digress and please send some concrete proof which confirms the possibilty of the claims made in this thread (directed to those who were up for it).

[Halloween]

give them time. It's not easy to line everything up perfectly in photoshop

[blackermage]

Took a while, had to find the date of my kill and edit out names, etc. etc,.
http://imgur.com/SV80XmK,uBfJHMw#0
First page is the clear, Second page shows that I didn't flare at the end.
Not sure how to show foes, we had two bard it was up 30-40% of the time I believe.

I had the weathered laevaetinn (sp?) at the time, along with weathered sold legs (don't ask, I'm retarded), along with pentamelded hat and chest, sold ring, HA feet.

[Sleigh]

But this is with someone else doing the Dragon kicks and stuff, no? It's still a pretty impressive number, but it's not the norm. I am still sceptical about it though. I'd much rather see a video. It seems weird to me that you say that the other monk forgot FoF and that he's very very bad. It's almost as if your friend told you this in order to prove a point? But anyway, it's still a picture and it only tells me that Monk is incredibly overpowered if you are able to get this kind of result. @Sleigh
Then I must also add that your logic is flawed when you say: 'Because the Monk did that much damage -> Therefore the numbers being claimed by Esca are true. 370 DPS on a SMN seems about right and very good. A BLM doesn't even come close unless the RNG is upon him or her.

Yes that's with someone doing Dragon Kick for him, but he's been parsed in a training dummy solo and he's gotten 440 with his current gear, without the sparse but effective multi-DoTs and double hit of Howling Fist we get from the two Dreadnaughts we spawn. MNK is hardly overpowered in the slightest - they're only overpowered in a training dummy fight where they get no drops in GL3, which makes them overpowered in T8, but beyond that they can fluctuate worse than BLM can if the fight's unkind to them.

I'm not basing the possibility of Escaflowne's numbers being correct because the MNKs you play with aren't doing as much as the MNKs I know. I'm basing them around my numbers as BLM if I had a better situation in T6-8, like going HAM with Flares on Slugs and forcing other people to break my tether 24/7, 330 would be nothing. BRD BRD isn't the most uncommon comp either, it happens and caster numbers go up for it. Trust me, I'm one of the biggest proponents of BLM needing buffs. They're not balanced, and I've made numerous posts about how bad they are, but that doesn't mean they're incapable of getting good numbers with enough practice and the right strat and comp.