ranged lb is 10% less potency than caster lb. average meteor does around 47k average ranged lb does around 43k. So the cost of using ranged lb is about 8-10k worth of damage. Both bard and mch can and should be doing their dps + lb + a supporting feature such as foe or w/e. Blm can easily make the dps up, this should be a common sense thing with the numbers given here. But if you wish I can show you those values too. In other words the opportunity cost of the blm limit breaking (huge lb lock animation, we're frozen until far after the meteor animation ends.) So to time out my limit break lock I went to my youtube channel and watched my first a3 clear. Here is how the lb went down: start channeling meteor @ 6:39. meteor finishes channeling at 6:43. I'm locked into animation until 6:52. I am unable to cast ANYTHING for aprox. 12 seconds. In that time I can get in 4 globals. To be precise 3 fire 4s and a fire 1. This is about 17k damage if I do not get a single crit (est. fire 4 at 4800 and Fire 1 at 3k Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7HGsEWo4L4


So the question is then, can the brd and mch do more than 17k damage in that 12 second window, excluding damage they could be doing while in LB? my answer is no.


For reference here is the MCH lb: starts at 3, channel finishes at 7, no longer locked at 12. They are locked for 9 seconds total.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ryEcp7UM7I


Here is the BRD LB: Starts channel @9, finishes channel @ 13, unlocked @ 18. Again 9 seconds.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2Spu6JxtzA





LB priority order for 2 targets are as follows:

SMN > BRD> MCH > BLM


For 3 targets or more


SMN > BLM > BRD > MCH


LB priority for 1 target...


you melees sort it out.


There are your numbers. BLM limit break does a total of 8k~ more than a bard lb but lose one more global than a bard does while lbing, which is around 4800 damage by itself. They also lose the opportunity cost of casting during the limit break, as well as enochian up time. The true values of the lb on 2 targets are: bard lb: 86,000/9 = 9555 dps. Caster LB = 94,000/12 which is 7833 dps. huh, look at that. Physical Ranged dps LB is designed FOR 2 targets.