Black Mage Sanctuary - A Guide to DPS

[IllyriaKnotfred]

It's worth noting that the extra stats, DH, and Spell Speed leads the i320 crafted to be more consistent.

However, the giant crit boost from the i330 means that while it might be marginally less at times, it can and will swing for much higher when the crits start rolling in.

If they start rolling in. I have a dragoon in my static and even with Battle Litany up more often then not I wont get a single crit during its window since my crit is so low already.

[Kabooa]

If they start rolling in. I have a dragoon in my static and even with Battle Litany up more often then not I wont get a single crit during its window since my crit is so low already.

There is no pain like a critless litany.

[Finkledoodoo]

Ok, some more questions

First, materia/stat question:

I read that it looks like a decrease in GCD cast time is affected by roughly 67 SpS. So, am I looking at my SpS total in multiples of 67 and cutting off as close to a multiple of 67 as I can or am I just going as high as available with whats possible to be melded into my gear? I don't have the savage gear yet, so I'd like to play around with the normal raid gear before committing my expensive materia to savage gear as I accumulate it. Thx...

Also:

At 70, which is the lowest ether that gives enough hp for a flare? I'd like to start gulping the sauce on my aoe rotations during experts...

Finally:

What are good foods and intelligence potions that are effective, but won't break my wallet? I'm not good enough at raiding to validate using the best stuff, so I just want to know what is at least effective. I'm eating marron glace (normal)/ sesame cookie (normal) and drinking mega potion of intelligence. I think maybe I should upgrade to eating Flaugnarde and drinking Max potions of intelligence, but I'm not sure if its worth the heavy price increase. I at the least want to use cheap stuff for the practice...

[OmegaStrongtan]

is the 330 tome stick even worth it if I have a Susy stick?
Might as well give it to my monk >_>

[Maero]

is the 330 tome stick even worth it if I have a Susy stick?
Might as well give it to my monk >_>

Yes, even though other stats are still bleh on either weapon (no ss as example) the Lost Allagan weapon has +1 dmg and has 16 int over Susano

http://garlandtools.org/db/#item/19780

[Gwaeron89]

is the 330 tome stick even worth it if I have a Susy stick?
Might as well give it to my monk >_>

Well i was able to do 5.1k with it on o4 sss, which is about 100 better than susano's 320. Susano doesn't have that great stat distribution either, so its about dh vs det.

[Waliel]

In a vacuum, the B4 opener isn't necessarily better.
The biggest advantage, to me, is that my AF lines up very perfectly with a lot of buffs that come out on 3rd/4th/5th/6th gcd, like Chain Stratagem, Trick Attack, Battle Voice and all that...

Maybe if I had one of those mythical Ninjas, not to mention we even lost our Bard, too. I kind of like the Sharp opener just because it's faster. Not like it's gonna make a big difference in the whole fight.

There is no pain like a critless litany.

I'll never forget that one Thordan EX where we had two Dragoons and I didn't get a single crit in p1.

[Ferrinus]

It makes sense that low spell speed BLM builds put out a lot of dps because they let you do proportionately more 5xF4 rotations, but low spell speed feels sooooo baaaad. I hope they eventually buff B4 to make 6xF4 superior.

[IllyriaKnotfred]

Dunno. Searching that name shows nothing unless I'm blind

[TsuKoj]

His logs show only 1 90%+ run while most are between 30-75 in everything except exdeath. I did catch him on blm earlier and he had 942 ss, which is still low. It would seem the low spell speed is holding him back on o1s-o3s where there's minimal downtime, and he's doing well on exdeath which has a lot of phase transitions. And neo-exdeath is just terrible for blms.

Edit - here's his lodestone. He's in blm atm. http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...cter/11945075/

Edit 2 - he's up to 1124 ss now.