Quote Originally Posted by NyneAlexander View Post
Do you have any idea what you are talking about? Have you ever seen a blm parse in any boss fight against a Drg, Mnk, Smn, or even a Brd that isn't singing the whole time? Its pretty pathetic. With the exception of T4, a well played BLM is going to struggle against a well played almost any other DPS. Its been proven with actual numbers time and time again.
I'll say this again.

Only reason we Black Mages don't parse as high as them is because we have consistent downtime in our rotation. If we didn't have that downtime then our damage per minute wouldn't look as low as it is on parsers.

The moment a BLM cast Blizzard 3 and by the time we cast that Fire 1 after Fire 3 it takes enough time to drop our DPS significantly on a Parser. Yet in no way is a Black Mages single target dps god awful as people make it out to be. Parses wont ever say this yet people are being overly dramatic about it because they don't top single target parsers.