Black Mage Sanctuary - A Guide to DPS

[Aiyza]

What are the role skills blms are picking?

[VitalSuit]

What are the role skills blms are picking?

Currently I use Diversion (mandatory), Swiftcast (Mandatory), Mana Shift for my healer when they're blowing through mana for AoE, Addle (personally I'm not sure if I should have this or Apocastasis), and Lucid Dreaming for the enmity dump.

I haven't done any of the extremes yet but I use these for dungeons.

Side note for others in the thread: what should I meld my gear with?

[waifugenerator]

Spell Speed will always have the highest stat weight for BLM due to our infinite MP, and as a bonus it'll boost thunder damage. After stacking as much spell speed as possible I'd go with a healthy balance of crit and dhr

[GospelVhae]

Pardon my ignorance but haven't we reached a point where spellspeed gives diminishing returns?

[HaroldSaxon]

Pardon my ignorance but haven't we reached a point where spellspeed gives diminishing returns?

Spellspeed will always get better the more you have of it. The only "diminishing returns" situation we had with it was Umbral Ice and Mana ticks - but that was outweighed by its increasing returns and the extra procs we could fit in.

However, with 3 spells in our UI phase now (and only needing two mana ticks still), that isn't something that will happen & we still have better rotations we can use at higher spellspeed amounts.

[Ferrasper]

So I should be stacking so much Spell Speed in my gear that I should be able to cast faster then the Flash in the Speed force!

[Woots]

So I should be stacking so much Spell Speed in my gear that I should be able to cast faster then the Flash in the Speed force!

I'm curious about this too. I'm melding as much SS as possible, and putting CRIT everywhere else. Should I be doing DH over Crit, or does it matter?

[Psycofang]

I dont think were sure of the stat weights yet but crit is apparently 1%= 108.5 points of crit

[Marianno]

Has there been a sneak - nerf on spellspeed. At level 69 I had 1459 spellspeed and then I recently hit 70 but decided to keep on my level 69 gear because I wanted to see the effects of cast times. I am still getting 2.79 cast time for F4 and if I stay in the 1000 - 1100 range spellspeed I am still fetting 2.82 cast time for F4. Am I doing something wrong? I am a little lost so some help is much appreciated. I logged out because I thought there may be a glitch or something and now stuck in a waiting queue to get back online. Note, I switched gear from my AF gear to level 69 gear to see the effects if the cast time and it is still pretty much 2.8x as long as I am in 1000 range for spellspeed. What am I missing? Please help.

[Cynfael]

Has there been a sneak - nerf on spellspeed. At level 69 I had 1459 spellspeed and then I recently hit 70 but decided to keep on my level 69 gear because I wanted to see the effects of cast times. I am still getting 2.79 cast time for F4 and if I stay in the 1000 - 1100 range spellspeed I am still fetting 2.82 cast time for F4. Am I doing something wrong? I am a little lost so some help is much appreciated. I logged out because I thought there may be a glitch or something and now stuck in a waiting queue to get back online. Note, I switched gear from my AF gear to level 69 gear to see the effects if the cast time and it is still pretty much 2.8x as long as I am in 1000 range for spellspeed. What am I missing? Please help.

If I'm understanding and remembering correctly, you need ever-increasing values as you level. It should take more spell speed at lvl 70 to achieve the same benefit that you get at lvl 69 and so forth.