Quote Originally Posted by CKNovel View Post
60... You just learned Enochian, Ice IV and Fire IV.
It's actually the least difficult rotation out of all BLM iterations, I still don't understand how ARR rotation was supposed to work (Spam fire for procs?).

The very basic rotation is:
Ice III -> Enochian (If not up) -> Ice IV -> Thunder III -> Fire III -> Fire IV * 3 -> Fire -> Five IV * 3 -> Repeat

The only tricky parts are the Thunder procs, the use of Sharpcast and that Fire IV doesn't reset Astral Fire duration.
ARR's rotation was basically a proc-based rotation. It worked like this.

Fire 3->Thunder 1 (opener)->Fire 1 'til low on mana (about 600 at level 50, pre-MP changes) bliz 3->thunder 1->bliz 1 (if you need to delay for MP)->fire 3.

The ways procs worked are: If you get thundercloud, use Thunder 3 AFTER fire 1, if you get fire 3, DO NOT INTERRUPT FIRE 1 to cast it, even if you lose a proc you still fire 1'd and then fire 3'd. Thunder 3 can also be used during ice which lets you push your MP even lower (like 215ish required to T1, but otherwise you can just instant thunder 3). Thunder 2 was not used at all in the BLM rotation once T3 was acquired.

The rotation was actually made possible to do as of ShB, whereas in SB it was broken due to MP and T1-3 merging changes (couldn't get as many fire 1s without losing out during UI phase). But if you want a good impression of what it was like, RDM is basically how it was intended, but not how it actually was. They screwed up firestarter as a proc because by the time you noticed it procced, it was too late (they since sped it up, but still too fast for most people to notice in time and get) and, well, most of the worst aspects of Black Mage's class design is caused by legacy ARR mechanics before it was turned into the HW+ rotation. It's really hard to work in procs when your rotation is so set in stone and time-limited. Plus at this point, I just wish Sharpcast was a trait that worked on every fire 1, because I basically just use it on UI->AF transition at all times now. But I digress.

That's basically how it worked. Procs broke up what was basically fire 1 spam.