Black Mage Sanctuary - A Guide to DPS

[Nekotee]

I agree
The weeping City chest piece tri-melded
secondary stat wise, is equivalent to a crafted 220 tri-melded

But more INT and more VIT
So it is a huge bonus

It is the non savage BIS chest with two Crit V

Hailstorm is accuracy trap XD
I can't help but laught when i see caster with the augmented chest...

[ShinryuReishiki]

I agree
The weeping City chest piece tri-melded
secondary stat wise, is equivalent to a crafted 220 tri-melded

But more INT and more VIT
So it is a huge bonus

It is the non savage BIS chest with two Crit V

Hailstorm is accuracy trap XD
I can't help but laught when i see caster with the augmented chest...

It's actually not that bad of a chest; I use it for Accuracy on my BLM because my melds are more SMN-focused (Crit everywhere, no Accuracy melded). It has no place in any BiS build, but you can still break 1100 Spell Speed while using it.

[panderin]

Hailstorm is accuracy trap XD
I can't help but laught when i see caster with the augmented chest...

I LOL'ed at this, I have my crafted chest pentamelded and other than the weeping city body idk what I am going to do but hopefully the game will decide for me when the next set of crafted gear comes out!!!

[Garotte14]

Does this mean F3 > F2x2 > Flare > Convert > Flare > Ether > B3 > B2 > F3 > F2 spam, or something else? I recall hearing that triple flares were no longer a thing back in 2.4-2.5, but I dunno what the state of things is now.

Triple Flares stopped being a thing in 3.0 when you hit 60 because X-Ethers did not give back enough MP for another Flare. However, in 3.2 they added Max-Ethers so you can do triple Flares.

F3 > Raging Strikes > F2x3> Flare > Convert > Swiftcast > Flare > Max-Ether > Flare > Transpose. Do that, and then go into F3 > F2x2 > Flare > Transpose > Repeat. And that's your AoE.

I also suggest doing this on 1st or second pull at the beginning and after boss fight, so you'll have RS and Convert ready for the boss.

[seekified]

Triple Flares stopped being a thing in 3.0 when you hit 60 because X-Ethers did not give back enough MP for another Flare. However, in 3.2 they added Max-Ethers so you can do triple Flares.

F3 > Raging Strikes > F2x3> Flare > Convert > Swiftcast > Flare > Max-Ether > Flare > Transpose. Do that, and then go into F3 > F2x2 > Flare > Transpose > Repeat. And that's your AoE.

I also suggest doing this on 1st or second pull at the beginning and after boss fight, so you'll have RS and Convert ready for the boss.

Got it - terrific answer, thanks.

Where do you guys feel that BLMs stand these days, compared to summoners? SMN was fairly bad in 2.x, but now it seems they've taken the AoE crown, which obviously was what BLMs used to be all about. The double/triple flare is still pretty monstrous AoE damage though, and I'm guessing someone who has mastered Enochian can really lay down the single-target damage. Thoughts?

[MagiusNecros]

Speaking of the Yafeami chest it is seemingly impossible for me to get it since I've cleared Mhach City over 10 times and I've been granted the luxury of not having it drop, usually having two tank body pieces drop instead. I mean it wouldn't be so bad if it could drop from every boss but it criminally only drops from the last 2. Which really is a 50% fail chance since many can't grasp the concept of dodge the thing, do thing to not die.

I mean just now I've spent 4 hours of my time to receive basically nothing.

[Nekotee]

The RNGesus curse...

I wish I could have it
Because i would never be against some vita
Seems pointless for a caster but surviving is good for dps... ._.

[Mercutial]

You'd be surprised how many augmented chests I've seen on BLM's. It's insane.

[Maero]

Same, and worst yet is having seen a blm with the augmented Chest and the Relic weapon, this patch the weapon is good but when Anima first came out,,, hell no

[Nekotee]

I really want the weeping chest...
But good god Does it exist ? T.T

Midan torso would be sexy but so far out of reach

Actually the anima is not that bad
Well it depend of the content
In aoe heavy content, low spellspeed is Nice for mana tick. The anima is good for heavy crit and high damage
In single target destruction the moar the better ! So yeah animano