Lv 60 PVP Burst Rotations

[TriksteR]

DRK

Hard slash (150) > Low blow (100/ ~3s Stun) > Full swing (150) > Syphon strike (250) > Carnal chill (180) > DA + Souleater (400) > Tar pit (180/ ~6s Heavy) > Dark passenger (150) > Dark arts + Carve and spit (450) > Plunge (200)

Total potency: 2210
Expected time: 8-9 seconds
Requirement: Darkside / ~4600 MP
Recommended to precast: Blood weapon / Dark arts / Sprint / Enliven or Icarus feather

* Mercy Stroke if possible
* Enhanced Tar pit II and Enhanced Carnal chill II upgraded

[CeveArthu]

Low blow (100/ ~5s Stun

Its a 3 second stun, not 5

[TriksteR]

Its a 3 second stun, not 5

Fixed, thanks!

[LathusWHM]

Blm

Thunder > Thunder next target > Thunder all possible targets >>>> Rek w/ Thundercloud procs

[Canadane]

SCH

M-maybe through some DOTs up... if you're lucky the tick will kill the guy before your team mates finish him off.

I'll never get that 5000 kills...

[Stupiduglytaru]

Will update in hour or so, as for putting rouse + spur into the burst rotation was just to show its importance when using enkindle, I'll put a note in there also

[Geologo]

BLM is a little problematic up to me for bursting expecially for LoS problems.

Actually in sealrock I act in few different ways, LathusWHM explained one of them (Thunder spam and continue spamming the procs), but it is not very useful for your party while u will gain a good freedom.

If you want to kill a target with 30-40% of HP while running my rotation is:

Sharpcast > Swiftcast > Phantom Dart 180 > Fire 180 > Fire3 (proc) 240
Total Potency 543, but if I'm not wrong, Astral Fire 3 grants you a 80% damage buff on fire aspected magics ( you will hit 833)
Expected time: 4-5 seconds
Recast: 1 min

Enochian can help with 5% damage buff as Raging too, but atleast Raging is better to be used with Leylines.
You will hit significantly harder if you already are in Astral fire III, but it still fine to punish fleers.

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If not when I have to protect tome with my party and just tanks dare to roam near us, I use almost the PvE Rotation, putting when possible Surecast before a Fire4 If I feel chased.
A good suddently damage in those situation is made with

Get Astral Fire3 thanks to a random player >Enochian > Leylines > Sharpcast > Fire 180 > Phantom Dart 180 > Lethargy > Fire 4 280 > Fire3 (proc) 240
Total Potency Considering Astral Fire 3 up: 1610
Expected time: 6 seconds
Recast: 90 Sec

I don't put Phantom Dart Before just because when people get it start to think "I'll be focused", same thing for Fire 4 and Lethargy usually, closer those attacks are and better it will be,
so to use this rotation be sure the target is chasing someone near you but that is NOT you, and it will be fine.
Here Raging is not a waste, even because after you have Leylines and Enochian up, so you can continue fining people.
(In this case usually I use Equanimity too)

[Chambers]

BLM

Just tossing in my experience.

Personally, if I'm trying to do dmg on the move I do Sharpcast>Swifcast>Thunder 3>Dart>Thunder 3 proc. I don't know potency specifics or anything but for normal dps it takes like 1/3 of their hp. and if I'm using this on a target that's low and I don't kill them I still have the chance to build more Thunder procs while i'm running and scathe spamming. If you do what Geologo says above you kinda need to be in astral 3 when doing this, otherwise your fire 3 is going to be underwhelming and you'd be better off with the Thunder 3/Dart/Thunder 3 combo
(also all dmg spells that are used with swiftcast are halved in pvp)

and also since BLM cast times are so long (and with people running out of range or someone sneezing on you and interrupting your cast) the only kind of actual rotation or burst you can do outside of that is after building a fire 3 proc (while at 3astral) while in Enochian>Surecast> Fire 4>Dart>Fire 3 proc. all that dmg will hit them at once and they won't have any time to react. That's my preferred way to do it so you don't risk losing the dart effect.

[Geologo]

Personally even in PvE I never get how thunder could hit so hard considering its potency and comparing it to Fire/Fire3.
With your first Thunder III you will hit for 35, after the Phantom Dart hit for 180 and the Procced Thunder III has a potency of 429 + 374 DoT at the end of ticks (I considered the 10% Magic Resistance debuff).
Total burst Damage: 644 (+ DoT)
Expected time: 3-4 sec
Recast: 1 min


That is definitively better than the Fire rotation suggested by me expecially if u are out of Crowd control,
because if the target is not slowered of if I anyway can reach him (like using Night Wing) I would be able to hit again with a Fire or Fire III,
or also happened few times that I sacrified Astral Fire 3 for casting a very fast Blizzard 1 to pute 40% heavy, but it is still very situational.

Ty for reminding me the halving of potency of swiftcast, I knew it but during the Potency sum I forgot it, I'll fix it now

Ah also another strange fact, Thunder DoT is not Esunable, it has to wear off by itself or using Purify, dont' know why o.O

[Chambers]

Ah also another strange fact, Thunder DoT is not Esunable, it has to wear off by itself or using Purify, dont' know why o.O

Really? I sware I've been able to remove Thunder when I'm playing AST, but I'm not 100% sure.

I'll try and pay closer attention today in pvp to double check.