Black Mage Rotation Guide

[Argyle_Darkheart]

Your calculations are wrong.

You're assuming you start each rotation from a UI3 F3, but that isn't the case. Every time you Transpose, you're re-entering Astral Fire with an Umbral Ice 2 Fire 3 (which is a 3.5s cast), but you're never calculating for this.

That is, each rotation should be starting from Astral Fire 3 Fire 1, and ending with the appropriate Umbral Ice 2/3 Fire 3.

For example, you have the Priority 4 rotation calculated as a slight DPS increase, but it's actually a DPS loss. The correct rotation would be:

[Astral Fire 3] F1 (2.5s) > F1 (2.5s) > F1 (2.5s) > F1 (2.5s) [Proc] > F1 (2.5s) > Hardcast Flare (4.0s) > Firestarter (2.5s) > Transpose > B1 (2.5s) > T2 (3.0s) > Umbral Ice 2 Fire 3 (3.5s) - 3087 potency / 28s = 110.25 potency/s

Versus:

[Astral Fire3] F1 (2.5s) > F1 (2.5s) > F1 (2.5s) > F1 (2.5s) [Proc] > F1 (2.5s) > Firestarter (2.5s) > Astral Fire 3 Blizzard 3 (2.5s) > T2 (3.0s) > Umbral Ice 3 Fire 3 (2.5s) - 2593 potency / 23s = 112.74 potency/s

All that said, I don't know why you parsed a DPS increase; I certainly haven't experienced any DPS increase (usually the opposite) while testing your rotations.