Quote Originally Posted by awhitet View Post
If this BLM iteration stays like this on release, the only optimization you can do is: use an instant on umbral ice phase(thunder or xeno), transpose into astral fire 1, and then you use fire 3 proc, you would skip the weak fire 3 casted from umbral ice to astral fire. Another one would be do a b4 b1 paradox line but that's just a niche thing to align your gcds with manafont/movement which 0.2% of players will use so.
Actually, this is gone. So, the original AF buff was a 40/60/80% buff to fire damage. AF1 is now dropped to 10% and, crucially, fire 3 is now 280 potency. The thing is literally DPS neutral with fire 4 with current known potency values, but saving it for a transpose firestarter will cost you about 100 potency now, assuming numbers stay the same. There's currently what I assume to be a typo in Aspect Mastery 3 where none of the previews say UI3 has a debuff to fire potency, but it's safe to say this could be missing. There's also a possibility that AF1's buff is still 40% but typoed to 10%, seeing as the 2 numbers are right next to each other on a numpad. Regardless, a fire 3 pulling roughly identical DPS to a fire 4 is a much bigger gain than a 70% damage to 110% damage fire 3 on transition. Going from 110% to 180% is just too big an increase now to consider saving it.