Black Mage Sanctuary - A Guide to DPS

[Galvuu]

I'll make a thread about this...
6 Fire IV is still a dps gain.
The issue is that if you move at all without Sharpcast up to get the F3 proc, you lose a Fire IV (due to AF III leniency).

5 Fire IV + the necessary B4 is a pps loss.
The guy is probably predicting a mechanic for which he cannot do it and he bypasses it half the time (not always though, if you see carefully).
From top of my head, up until gaols+puddles I can make it work.

But for churning+knockback, for levinbolt+cloud+knockback and sometimes for puddlesx2+churning, I just do not have enough casts and bypass B4 myself.

[Rakhabit]

The guy is probably predicting a mechanic for which he cannot do it and he bypasses it half the time (not always though, if you see carefully).

The top parse literally uses B4 twice in the entire fight, that's all.

[Galvuu]

The top parse literally uses B4 twice in the entire fight, that's all.

I saw the wrong one.
I tend to order them by dps without the balance (the one ahead in that one uses B4 a bit more).
I found the one you guys are talking about last night (and went on a huge tirade about it in a post too).
If you crunch some pps numbers, the 4.0 rotation has the single advantage of better Foul timings, so you're right.
My bad.