Black Mage Sanctuary - A Guide to DPS

[Aikaal]

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You also don't want to spam Thundercloud procs because it will screw your Enochian rotation. I saw a bunch of questions, I do apology for not showing up lately. I'm been pissed the way SE is treating raiders and I kinda dropped off the game. I clear A4S for the first time this week (lol) I got this useless Gown of Casting that would be viable for 3.2 for accuracy option but Dinoland offers better anyways.

3.1 kinda finished me off lol. Alexander Savage was already terrible. Now Dianoland simply offers better gear. Eventually relic will be 210 and BOOM you'll be BiS without stepping 1 foot in Alexander Savage. This is a disgrace and an insult for raiders.

[Tarta]

Hey guys, been having tons of fun trying to beat ThordanEX but I have been stuck on each and every single group on meteors.
As a BLM, I seem to only be able to down 1 meteor and a half. Am I doing something wrong? Should I be downing 2 meteors on my own? The cast times is just killing me especially since I gotta move or be stunned.

[Aikaal]

Hey guys, been having tons of fun trying to beat ThordanEX but I have been stuck on each and every single group on meteors.
As a BLM, I seem to only be able to down 1 meteor and a half. Am I doing something wrong? Should I be downing 2 meteors on my own? The cast times is just killing me especially since I gotta move or be stunned.

Your best bet is to be in the pacman's mouth shape safety zone to avoid AoEs and cast. That's what I do.

[Tarta]

Your best bet is to be in the pacman's mouth shape safety zone to avoid AoEs and cast. That's what I do.

Good idea, will warn heals not to stack there.
If there's another BLM on board though...I'll have to rethink strat

[Tarta]

Actually no wait...
What is the amount of small meteor kills I should aim for? 2?
If your trick helps me reach 2 meteor kills, should I start on middle one and hope everyone else got theirs done?

[AkashiXI]

Actually no wait...
What is the amount of small meteor kills I should aim for? 2?
If your trick helps me reach 2 meteor kills, should I start on middle one and hope everyone else got theirs done?

Middle has defense up until the others are killed, so I'd only jump on it if there's one left and melee are already on it, or everyone decides to ignore it and eat the 8k explosion.

[Leogun]

Every time one of your Thunder dots ticks on a mob, you have a 10% chance to have Thundercloud proc. It is a straight 1 in 10 rng based chance, no counters, no logic, just rng, and you get an independent roll on every mob every server tick.

Any easy way to see this in action is to go to Bentbranch Meadows (for instance) and apply Thunder to 3-4 target dummies, you will eventually see 2 Thundercloud procs appear at the same time, since they were triggered by 2 independent sources (dots on different targets).

Thanks! I had a hunch it worked that way, but never had any proof. It certainly felt like I was getting the proc more but just had to make sure it wasn't all in my head.

And since my BLM is only level 32 right now, there's no optimal rotation, so to speak, so I'm just getting a feel for all my spells and traits at the moment.

[Aikaal]

Someone will have to take the step if BLM have skill changes. I won't work on BLM anymore.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...88#post3452088

Can't deal with this game anymore. Sorry guys, it was fun while it lasted but I'm not dealing with it anymore.

[Maero]

@ Aikaal, sorry to see you leave but can also understand your viewpoint ( read your other thread)
Thank you for contributing so much to the blm community and hopefully can see you back sometimes in the future

[Hontaro]

Not exactly the right thread for this, but quite a few people here are knowledgable;
Is it normal that a Bard struggles with feeding the add to the Straf Doll because of low dps if he's the only one hitting it?

Also, when the adds spawn and you have Ley Lines ready, do you immediately use it (and if yes, where do you place it?) or do you feed the add without Ley Lines and pop it afterwards?