Thread: Some interesting numbers on 4.0 BLM

Awesomely informative post, thank you very much for the number-crunching.
I tried out the v3.0 vs v4.0 rotation thingie and I was able to beat the Susano ex dummy with the v3.0. I couldn't do that with v4.0 in my puny gear. I think this demonstrates very well how borked BLM is now.

Did some more testing. I ran Susano multiple times and forced myself to run the 4.0 rotation. The planets have to align for me to reach my DPS on the 3.0 rotation.

Since today is the weekly reset and I'll be able to acquire some Omega pieces in a few hours, has anyone come up with a good, thought-out strategy for gearing? My gut is telling me SpS, but my 3.0 rotation makes completing AF while slamming T3P procs so easy that it's whispering to my ear, "give me the D..irect Hit".

I intend on trying the 2.0 rotation in Omega today.
If that end up beating the SB rotation I shall shit bricks.

Originally Posted by NoxLumina

I intend on trying the 2.0 rotation in Omega today.
If that end up beating the SB rotation I shall shit bricks.

I'm very sceptical about that F1 spam rotation, let us know how your Omega goes.
I'd prefer the 3.x rotation to that, if we're reduced to mindlessly spamming Fire again, I'm done with this game.

Second. 4.0 Rotation vs 3.0 Rotation
When it comes to a dummy parse, 4.0 is better, but not by game breaking amounts. The problem with only showing the PPS of 20-35s, is it doesn't show how everything stacks up over time, especially Foul timing and Dots. Foul always needing to be used during UI, and not wanting to overwrite dots without T3P. Now on the flip side, 3.0 is better on a dummy parse, if you get a T3P at least every 2 our of 3 Astral Fire phases... which is RNG, but very plausible with having to cast T3 over T1. Also 3.0 has the advantage of movement friendlier phases during actual fights... for now.
I do believe once we get back to 1600+ SpS, 4.0 will be safe enough to just always do. During end of HW, it was safe to cast 4 spells before refreshing with F1... albeit unnecessary, but doable.

My opinion: Use 4.0 when you know the fight wont require movement (like all of Lakshmi...) and 3.0 when you have to move (like all of Susano...)

So now my personal opinion on your proposed changes.

Raise our base MP by any number between 600~1000

Unnecessary, but I guess it will help those who are more casual and won't understand the purpose of attempting to put Foul last in your UI phase.

Return the 20 potency we lost on Fire IV and Blizzard IV

YES 100%... I don't know why they got rid of our raging strikes AND reduced potency... BLM was never super broken OP

Increase AF/UI duration by 1 second

Kind of stated my opinion in part 2 about this... personally just think it is due to lack of SpS right now, once we get all of Omega Normal/Savage gear, it should be much safer. 970 SpS from gear at ilvl 314, 1524 SpS after just Omega normal gear.

Thanks for your very interesting posts, RyeMinx, I agree on a lot of stuff you said.
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