Black Mage Sanctuary - A Guide to DPS

[Psycofang]

Dont feel bad, one would expect more fire 4s = more damage and a system to actually work.

4 years in a row Yoshi, this is just pitiful now

[Shiroe]

it's like brd in 3.0, when they added the "immobile turret" mode, it was a dps lose too, till they fixed it

we need to adresse this Blm issue straight in a "this needs to be fixed for Blm" thread addressed directly at Yodhi

[Ferrasper]

So let me get this straight. Other then the openener, we should skip B4?

[Psycofang]

From what im seeing, reading and testing in practical settings yes.

Unless there's a pin somewhere like only use b4 if triple cast is up or something weird.

[Lelila38]

Been going through Fflogs and the highest Blm all don't use B4 outside of opener. Just broken.
Gonna have to try doing this myself next time I get into ex primals.

[IllyriaKnotfred]

They really need to tweak some things. If its really that much of a dps loss to maintain one of our new more interesting mechanics, that's just sad.

[Lelila38]

Yes, this needs to be addressed, and better soon. It's one of the core mechanics they designed, so it's a shame it's not working properly.
Makes you wonder if they even test these things before throwing them at us.

[Shiroe]

As for Blm having trouble in general in pfs and statics and meta.

Blm thunder dots should give enemies a magic resistance down buff (2-5%), making Blm more valuable and making a parallel meta with 3 casters possible (besides the "physical" meta).

[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.

[Ferrasper]

I was practicing on the dummy with me not doing B4 after the opener. The issue that kept on popping up is Fouls timing. It started popping up during my AF3 phase. I noticed it more when I had only 2400 mana left, and I b3 instead.