Quote Originally Posted by Gormogon View Post
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.
I dunno... after extensive experience inside of Turn 8 with multiple people parsing with different programs, its safe to say that blm needs a buff. This is an 11 min. dps check with very little movement. I mean, we basically get to turret the entire time with the exception of hitting a tower or a landmine. And over 11 min, we're gonna get out-parsed by almost every single dps job in the game. This is with using bliz 1 during the Umbral ice III downtime, and choosing the right thunder to cast based off of mp left over when entering umbral ice. Add movement into a long fight like that and there's no chance.

IMO, it was the scathe debuff that put us at the bottom. It used to be a feasible method of maintaining dps during movement. But because of the pvp-related nerf, our PvE was dramatically effected. As item level gets higher, the dps gap between us and other jobs will grow exponentially bigger, unless SE adds some balance.