Fire II

[Mikey_R]

But is it actually?

Freeze - 100
Thunder II - 150
Transpose
Fire II - 112
Fire II - 128
Fire II - 128

= 618 Potency in 14 Seconds
so 44.14 potency per second

Freeze x 4 - 400
Thunder II - 150

= 550 potency in 12.5 seconds
so 44 potency per second

This is with AF2. With AF3 the third Fire II will be buffed to 144 potency and the potency per second of that rotation will be 45.29.

Yeah the difference is abysmal. But the Freeze rotation is not "much stronger".

But of course if you use Fire III in that rotation instead of Transpose you will lose out on dps because it's single target.

But Fire III is even in single target a dps loss before you get AF3 on lvl 40 - wich is just another reason why BLM needs a rework for the leveling phase.

The one problem here is that Transpose is not instant. It takes time from the end of the cast, to use transpose, then to start casting again. I don't know exactly how long it takes to use transpose, however, if we take it as half a second, the it is 618 potency in 14.5 seconds, which is a potency per second of 42.62.

We can even work out the break point, where if transpose takes X time to cast, the 2 would be equal. That time is 0.05 seconds (0.045454545454....... to be exact). Transpose definitely takes more time to cast, therefore it will always be less potency per second.