DPS Potential....

[Drenaye]

I'm posting this here because I'm DPS class, and I didn't see anywhere else to post. If I've posted in the wrong place, please let me know.

I've been playing the game for a little while now, but I'm still very newbish to the way rotations are used. I've looked up example rotation and hot-bar set ups and they're all very confusing to read and most of them are set up for lvls 60+.

I'm looking for some guidance to get the most out of my BLM.

This is the current set up I have.

[Rongway]

Put Fire II and Thunder II on your bars. You'll be using Thunder II/IV forever, and Fire II until 68. Use these on groups. Keep Thunder II up. Procs instant Thunder II for 150 potency per target, plus DoT. Fire II is 144 per target.

For single target, until 60 (58? I haven't done the SB sub-60 math--in HW Blizzard IV without Fire IV was a damage loss):
Thunder III, Fire III, spam Fire, use Firestarter and Thundercloud procs when available, Blizzard III, repeat. Flare only when it's possible to Swiftcast-Flare-Convert.

[Rawrz]

Get rid of Drain and Erase and put Diversion and Manashift instead. Your tanks and healers will appreciate it.

As for hotbars, don't forget that there is such thing as the extended hotbar. I have mine set to show the same hotbar no matter the order it's pressed. Google extended hotbar setup if you'd like. :0

Skills like: Sleep, Freeze, and Surecast you can stick on your backest of Bars. You will use them very infrequently, but they should be placed. Everything else you should be able to fit on your main/extended hotbar.

[AppleJinx]

For role skills you don't really need drain and erase. Replace them with diversion and apocatastasis or lucid dreaming. If you are going to use apocatastasis though, use this marcro: /ac "Apocatastasis" <tt> so you can throw it on the tank automatically without having to switch targets.

[Frizze]

Yeah, drain is sometimes useful while soloing but you never want to bring it into a group situation. The heal is too small to matter when you have a healer, and your actual damage spells do so much more to the target. If you want to keep it for soloing thats fine, but i would swap it to diversion when in groups. Erase and Surecast are also fairly situational. Many dungeons dont feature erasable DoTs or dangerous push/pull mechanics. Lucid Dreaming makes a great emergency button(as a BLM you mostly use it for hate dumping, the refresh doesnt function under astral fire and doesnt matter much under umbral ice), and Mana Shift can help healers a lot(also useful to extend certain bard songs). Or Apoc as AppleJinx said.

As for the BLM rotation, Rongway covered it. Until you get Fire 4(level 60) you want to cast all the Fire 1s you can while under AF3(and get in the habit of using and maintaining Enochian if you dont already). You want to keep your Thunder DoT ticking. You want to use your procs. And when you run low on mana you need to refill. So you cast all your fire spells, then use Bliz 3 to switch stances, one filler spell will get you to full mana - this is a good place to refresh thunder, then Fire 3 to switch back to offense and keep going.

[Drenaye]

For role skills you don't really need drain and erase. Replace them with diversion and apocatastasis or lucid dreaming. If you are going to use apocatastasis though, use this marcro: /ac "Apocatastasis" <tt> so you can throw it on the tank automatically without having to switch targets.

I don't know how to set up macros......do I just copy and paste what you wrote there and take the icon and put it on my bar?

[Drenaye]

I just unlocked Sharpcast last night. I don't have Enochian yet.

[Tsubaki75]

For role skills you don't really need drain and erase. Replace them with diversion and apocatastasis or lucid dreaming.

A BLM will never need lucid dreaming, instead grab mana shift to help out your healers

[Seraphiime]

A BLM will never need lucid dreaming, instead grab mana shift to help out your healers

it halves enmity, BLM i know use it on cooldown

[Rawrz]

it halves enmity, BLM i know use it on cooldown

Manashift still brings more party utility. If youre using diversion, you should be ok