New to DPSing...lets talk limit breaks

[Veilqa]

Hi,

I've mostly played white mage (lvl 60) and I have to admit during my play time as a white mage I've spent my time focusing on my team mates health versus caring about when the appropriate time to limit break is (unless everyone is dead except for me).

So my question(s) is this: During raids dps usually will limit break with 3 (or is it two - been a while since I've raided since I took a break from the game) but during dungeons should I wait until all available LB bars are full on last boss to use LB or is it normal/ok to use LB before last boss? I hope I'm clear enough in my question. I'm working my way to leveling a ninja to 60 (currently level 28 lancer).

[Wilhem]

In all honesty most of the time I keep it for the last boss if LB gauge isn't filling quickly. If you can fill the gauge quick enough between boss fights then go ahead use it during bosses but you'll see that most of the time LB are pretty pointless in dungeons and most bosses can be dealt with without even using it once.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

I've found that most of the early leveling duneons at least, you'll end up with a limit per boss if you constantly use them.

That said, it can be useful if you do really large pulls to do an aoe limit on the trash.

[Dorander]

It really is your call. Though in a lot of the earlier dungeons using the limit break before the last boss is highly unnecessary.

[Veilqa]

Thanks for you input guys. Much appreciated as always!

[EdwinLi]

Dungeons in 3.0 and 3.X tend to have the LB bar fill up quite fast just enough to perform 1 LB on each boss.

Don't save LB as a Finisher skill as that tend to cause a good amount of the LB's damage to not be used such as if a boss is at 20% HP with a LB2 waiting and the LB2 can cause 12% damage by the time the LB2 goes off a good 5% to 8% would be already gone leaving 15 to 12% HP just good enough that the full LB2 damage is not wasted leaving maybe 3% to 1% HP left on the boss.

However, there is a strange silent code to hold of LB on the last 10% to 5% HP which does tend to cause the LB damage to go to waste as the LB still need time to charge once activated where that time it takes to charge a good amount of HP would have already been removed to 5% or lower thus wasting a good chunk of the 10% HP damage the LB could have done.

In 2.0 and 2.X dungeons the LB tends to fill up much slower due to how enemies and bosses die much faster than 3.0 and 3.X dungeon enemies and bosses. Take consideration if you need to save up for a LB2 for the final boss or just give a good LB1 on 2 or all 3 dungeon bosses depending on how fast the LB refills.