Is Everyone Playing BLM wrong?

[Gruntler]

So I am told over and over that I am doing things wrong as Black Mage, but based on my understanding on how things work my way actually works better.

Other people: Fire III, Fire IV x2, Triple Cast, Fire IV x2, Despair, Blizzard III, Blizzard IV, Thunder III, repeat

Well there's you're problem, that's not how the job is actually played. If you're comparing your crap rotation to a crap rotation (and holy crap your assumptions are offbase) you won't come out with valid results.

First there's no mention of time in your analysis, and that means you're missing the 'ps' part of 'dps.'

So here's a better example of where you go wrong. A Caveat for the third rotation: That's just me making something off the top of my head, the no-brain rotation, the 'I don't play this job but this seems legitimate' rotation, the 'I'm sure BLMs will go on into detail about better practices but this is fine enough to make my point' rotation.



Notice I'm neglecting the prepull blizzard III->Blizzard IV to start things off to get your three umbral hearts. That's common to all three, won't make a difference. I'm also not including Magick and Mend or Enochian because that's a common multiplier and adding it won't help with comparisons anyways. Also not weighing in with the Ice phase Paradox, cause that's like... not salient to the core points I need to make.

In almost the same time as you I've gotten in 1300 more potency than you. So that's gains. But to make matters worse, because you take 4.9 more seconds to get through your rotation than the 'bad strawman' rotation you're trying to compare to, while you get in more potency overall, your potency per second is actually 4 pps less than the rotation you're trying to say is worse! You're actually doing worse than the bad strawman rotation you're trying to present!

Now, before Paradox, in the third rotation you'd replace the Paradox with Fire I and that'd reduce the potency by 176 and the overall pps by around 6, but that's still WAYYYYYYYYY the hell ahead of what you've presented. So this isn't even a 'your rotation needs to be level 90 to git gud' issue it's 'your rotation isn't gud on its face' issue.

And here's the worst part: I don't think my rotation is optimal. It's hastily thrown together, has nothing close to optimization tricks or any of the voodoo BLM optimizers do or anything. I'm not at all knowledgeable in that regard.

But holy crap it takes less than 30 seconds to cobble together a rotation better than.... this display.