First time playing Astrologian... need some advice/tips

[Cleftobismal]

Lightspeed + Gravity is actually a DPS loss of about 6.25%

And normal Gravity spam is a 100% mana lost. No lie. You're better off using light speed gravity for any aoe situations. Especially if you could only contribute two gravities instead of 4-6. Most parties I'm in, the trash mobs die much faster than If I were to not use light speed.

Also could you go into greater detail what variables got you to 6.25%? Are you talking about spamming gravity on a single target? Spamming gravity on trash mobs? If so how long does it take you to eventually eradicate them? Or is this a calculation off of a dummy which doesn't die? Are we also comparing the damage done in 10 seconds with light speed then without? What about after the fact? Will you have enough mana to continue to use gravity? Or will the extra mana you have from the discounted mp cost of Gravity will be enough to out dps it? At any rate, the point of using light speed is not the damage in the long run, but the speed of the immediate damage which will destroy the trash mobs anyways before light speed is off.


Let's also factor in the pro's of being able to immediately heal + regen/shield your party then switch right back to dpsing. Versus without light speed you are creating downtime. It's the same concept of using Presence of the mind for holy spams. You're not using it to increase the dps in the long run, (As your mana will horribly run out) You're using it to quickly take out the mobs in the short term.