Black Mage Sanctuary - A Guide to DPS

[Daemius]

This is my plan for BiS before going into Creator Savage
http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/VVG3

I slot a couple of piety since it makes my opener a little smoother.

[Primm]

The savage gear is frustrating. I've been lucky so far and got 3 items: bracelet, feet and head.

Incredible zero spell speed ... but for now ilvl 270 stuff is superior of course.

By the way, I had no miss (yet) with 588 accuracy in a12s

[Maero]

I finally looked at the crafted gear and you know what it's pretty good. I purchased the head piece for now (yes i could have went with shire, but i also wanted glam so 2x function), and was thinking neck and earrings as well, because with melds it will be good.
Also think i will go the same route again on this patch, have a mix of crafted gear, tome gear and what not.
Only a few pieces of scripture gear is good and by the sounds of what some of you are saying the savage gear is not all too much better?

Also i thought higher accuracy would have been needed this patch?
I heard healers are having to meld accuracy, (this could be a gear issue, not sure)

[frostfirefawcett]

Nope, accuracy stayed pretty much the same as A8S. So, 592 for casters/healers ~

[Maero]

hmm very odd then, i had heard otherwise for healers and prices of acc IV materia has been high recently

[frostfirefawcett]

Nah it's the same and like I said, I am fairly sure they did that because healers wouldn't be able to cap accuracy without crafted gear or relic otherwise.

[Primm]

What are the currently "most accepted" stat weights for BLM?

[StouterTaru]

What are the current "most accepted" stat weights for BLM?

There aren't really any, but the easy answer is about ~21% higher than they were in 3.2. Adding ~21% to base INT devalues INT by ~17% or raises the value of secondaries by 21%, whichever way you want to look at it. Not much has changed overall since 3.0; SS >>> Crit >= DET

Long answer:

• DET starts around 0.22 goes down slowly as you add more
• Crit starts around 0.18 and goes up steadily, it's around 0.24 in the 700's
• SpS starts around 0.27 (plus intangibles) and goes up steadily to around 0.35 (plus intangibles) in the 1200's

The intangibles in spell speed are hard to put a number on. These include fitting in that extra FS/Thunder/TC proc without losing Enochian (at a point these are negated by Arrow), having a better opener, having an extra spell land with buffs like BL/TA, losing a smaller percentage of your casts to movement/jump.

At what people are going to call BiS sets (~1600 INT, ~1200 SS, ~700 Crit, ~600 DET) the weights are roughly:

• DET: 0.20
• Crit: 0.23
• SpS: 0.35 - 0.50 (Depending on how much you want to add for the intangibles)

[Dusk278]

Is having 284 Piety still a valuable thing to have for BLMs in this patch?

Also if there is any updates on the openers so far in this patch? Been using this opener and hoping if theres any changes I can make to improve it.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...HxA/edit#gid=0

[smallbeach]

yes it is as long as you're not losing spellspeed, thunder procs became a huge point in doing sick parse.

for you're opener you better do only 2 F4 before Fire, this way you can weave swift cast with a F3 proc, also you can use eno before leylines if you have enough spellspeed but its not a big deal.

only do 3 F4 before fire if you want to save raging strike : F4 F4 F4 F1 F4 convert F4 F4 (for example on a9s opener you want swiftcast for the first adds)


Btw talking a9s what are you guys doing after faust death, just spam blizzard til dmg down is over ?