What I think should change about 3.0 BLM.

**Kerii** · 07-10-2015 08:07 AM

The only changes I would like is for Ley Lines to get a slight buff (5%) and for Blizzard and Fire IV spells to always finish casting if we are able to start it. I would also love it if they would rework Thunder spells to line up with Blizzard and Fire ones a bit more, but that's probably subjective.

**hallena** · 07-10-2015 08:40 AM

Originally Posted by Kenji1134

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You cant fit 5 fire I in an astral fire rotation like in ARR. it's 4 now.
You're also not counting the 5% flat damage increase enochian give.

**Hontaro** · 07-10-2015 10:27 AM

Originally Posted by Kenji1134

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Basically what the other one said, so I'll re-calculate it

old rotation (at lvl60)
180(B1) + 240(T1) + 240*0.7*2 (F3/B3 swapping) + (4*180)*1.8 = 2052 pot over 2.5 + 2.5 + 1.75 + 1.75 + 4*2.5 = 18,5s => 110.92pot/s
I don't consider (double) Flare a part of a basic rotation, also, 11 GCDs is wrong since Flare has a longer cast time.

A general "lets pretend its a full refresh every time" Enochian rotation
240*.7*2 (B3 and F3 swapping) + (4*280+180)*1.8 (with 4 F4) + 240 (T1, you will use it in most cases during UI3) + 280(B4) to refresh = 3196 potency, over a total of 23.5s => 136pot/s => 142.8pot/s due to 5% dmg from Enochian
110.92/142.8 ~ 77.7%, which means that dropping Enochian is about 22,3% potency lost. Still not the 40-50% but still more than what you calculated.

I hope I didn't screw anything up.

What I'd like to have is that the AF3 check from F4 would occur only at the end of the cast. You would fix the issue of UI3 -> F3 -> F4 issue as well as another issue where you cast F1 right in time so that AF3 drops for a split second, which causes to mess up F4 too. Same stuff with B4.

**ColeSlawter** · 07-10-2015 10:46 AM

One thing I'd like to see is if Ley Lines is deployed and we had to move AND we do not have a party member targeted then Aetherial Manipulation will move you back to center of Ley Lines. If you have a party member targeted then it still takes you to them.

I agree with a lot of the other suggestions but just thought I'd throw this one out as well.

**Kenji1134** · 07-10-2015 12:34 PM

4 F1's becomes ~2743 over 24s = 114.3
135.69/114.3 = 18.7% more pot/sec for the Enoch rotation.

So not a "huge" difference, but still a larger difference.
I got BLM to 60 today, havent had a chance to play with the new rotation in an expert. Or the old rotation for that matter.

**Syn-X** · 07-10-2015 12:49 PM

What I've always wanted is Thunder to be an AoE DoT. That's what Thunder 4 should be if there's ever going to be one.

**ZephyrusM** · 07-10-2015 05:53 PM

Potency amounts aside, I know and see what the damage difference is between casting a Fire 1 and Fire 4. An Average fire 4 at i180 is doing about 2100. A Fire 4 is averaging 3500. That's a 40% or 1400 damage PER SPELL difference, multiply times 4 for a typical full Fire 4 rotation, and that's 5600 damage lost over about 12-15 seconds. This equates to about 370 DPS lost each time you can't/aren't able to use Enochian and Fire 4 and just spam Fire 1. Maybe it's not an overall 40% drop in total DPS, but it is very close to that every time you can't keep Enochian going.

**HaroldSaxon** · 07-10-2015 06:30 PM

Originally Posted by Syn-X

What I've always wanted is Thunder to be an AoE DoT. That's what Thunder 4 should be if there's ever going to be one.

Thunder 4 should be related to Enochian. Thunder 2 should be based around AOE>

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