Secret tips for keeping uptime with BLM

[Zerathor]

Took a look at some of your logs. You're slipping a few things like an occasional despair, not using sharpcast often, and sometimes missing a xenoglossy. for mobility sake, holding onto a xeno or 2 is good, just be sure not to let them overwrite. that gives you decent enough mobility for most of these fights without having to ogcd clip triple cast. Also be sure to not clip your ogcds. You want to use your ogcd's either after casting b3/f3 to switch from af/ui, or after an instant cast ability.

For example in the majority of your openers, you aren't utilizing sharpcast to get a guaranteed proc to weave manafont for, and are just clipping it. You can weave sharpcast in under one of your triple cast f4's after LL to get a f3p to weave it, or with higher spell speed you can do the 5 f4 despair f4 despair opener using a t3p to weave the manafont from pre sharpcasting before the pull.

Generally you can burn triple off cd for dps as it comes up when you get to a position to weave it, but for certain fights it may be nice to use for mobility. With sharpcast ensuring a f3p, having one or two xeno's on stock, triple cast, and swift cast gives you 6-7 gcd's of instant casts to move when lined up properly. There isn't that much that requires that level of movement though until you get to savage leviathan.

[ValidFlea]

Thank you thank you!

I actually started doing this as well, since I've gotten to a point where I can farm Titania and know it well enough that I can focus fully on rotation. I'm slowly trying to work things in. Currently I'm working on weaving sharp after Xeno and just using it to keep thunder up as much as possible. This already has boosted my numbers by about 1K.

It's coming together slowly but at least I'm making progress. This kind of advice is exactly what I was hoping for.