Low level Black mage be like.

[Halvos]

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[Humble Techpriest]

Publicado originalmente por Dethlane:

All combat jobs have boring "rotation" at low level. THM feels even worse though thanks to hella long cast times.

Publicado originalmente por Humble Techpriest:

If memory serves 1 Is blizzard 1, Fire 1 is 2. therefore.....You never run out of MP, but thanks to Umbral Ice you do no damage.

At low levels (max 1 ice/fire stack) damage difference is negligible, so you might as well just spam ice to not worry about mana.

Dancer has a fun rotation for simplicity in every ARR duty lmao, it's one of the joys of doing leveling Roulette as the job.

STANDARD STEP IN SASTASHA IS PERFECTLY FINE AND BALANCED I SWEAR.

[Yes]

But what about fire? Dont forget the warmth of the fire

[Halvos]

Publicado originalmente por Yes:

But what about fire? Dont forget the warmth of the fire

Until you get to higher levels engaging with the umbra mechanic does not yield enough damage to matter in a significant degree

[Yes]

Publicado originalmente por Halvos:

Publicado originalmente por Yes:

But what about fire? Dont forget the warmth of the fire

Until you get to higher levels engaging with the umbra mechanic does not yield enough damage to matter in a significant degree

As someone who is nicknamed the eternal black mage by both raiding group and friends ingame i ask again, What about the eternal warmth of fire?

[Humble Techpriest]

Publicado originalmente por Yes:

Publicado originalmente por Halvos:

Until you get to higher levels engaging with the umbra mechanic does not yield enough damage to matter in a significant degree

As someone who is nicknamed the eternal black mage by both raiding group and friends ingame i ask again, What about the eternal warmth of fire?

I would rather make the enemy uncomfortable than comfortable.

[Yes]

Publicado originalmente por Humble Techpriest:

Publicado originalmente por Yes:

As someone who is nicknamed the eternal black mage by both raiding group and friends ingame i ask again, What about the eternal warmth of fire?

I would rather make the enemy uncomfortable than comfortable.

Nothings warmer than a crisp corpse

[DeadM00n]

Wait level ~30-35, then youll do:
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fire 1
(sometimes fire 3 when firestarter procs)

Or even better - lvl 50:
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fire 1
fire 1
fire 1
(sometimes fire 3 when firestarter procs)

[DDRMANIAC007]

The level 50 BLM rotation is complete garbage. It consists of reacting to Firestarter procs within a very small window of time if you don't want to drop damage. It gets better at 60 since you get the start of your real rotation with Firaja.

Also Black Mage in general has pretty bad damage at low levels so keep that in mind. Also it requires you to really master your kit as your rotation keeps completely changing when synced to different levels.

[FreshMint]

As someone that plays a lot of BLM I agree that while BLM is a lot of fun it's not great to play when synced below 60, since Fire IV is where the fun really starts with this job.
Not that 60 is that much of a party either but it isn't as awful of a sync downwards as going from SAM 90 to SAM 80.

At very low levels I'll also probably rather spam fire 1 than do incomplete combos.

Publicado originalmente por Halvos:

At level 18 Conjurer gets a spell called Stone Two, it has a cast time of 1.49 seconds and a potency of 190.

Until level 35 a thaurmaturges main damaging spells are Fire and Bliazzard both with the same stats of a 2.5 cast time and 180 potency.

THE HEALER DOES BETTER DPS THAN THE DPS MAGE! (I mean they will if they aren't healing that is.)

It worries me that you're ignoring the existence of traits and recast timers and might be missing a lot of aspects to the jobs you play.

[Halvos]

Publicado originalmente por FreshMint:

It worries me that you're ignoring the existence of traits and recast timers and might be missing a lot of aspects to the jobs you play.

Yes I know the recast time for Stone Two is 2.50 seconds but when I play black mage it feels like the other three people in my party kills everything during the cast time so I feel the cast time so just so much more important.

BLM can cast more spells over all but at least in my experience I end up dropping half my spells because my target dies making me just feel useless in the party.

[DDRMANIAC007]

Publicado originalmente por Halvos:

Publicado originalmente por FreshMint:

It worries me that you're ignoring the existence of traits and recast timers and might be missing a lot of aspects to the jobs you play.

Yes I know the recast time for Stone Two is 2.50 seconds but when I play black mage it feels like the other three people in my party kills everything during the cast time so I feel the cast time so just so much more important.

BLM can cast more spells over all but at least in my experience I end up dropping half my spells because my target dies making me just feel useless in the party.

Fire stacks boost the damage multiplier of fire spells when it comes to BLM. I can't tell you what those multipliers are but the potency on your fire spells isn't what their actual potency is.

Like I said though BLM even up to and past 70 has subpar damage. It's only at high/max levels that it really starts to do damage. At level 90 it's the highest DPS job in the game.

Edit: https://www.fflogs.com/zone/statistics/54#aggregate=amount As you can see it has both the highest highs and some of the lowest lows. It's the hardest job to play well but it is very rewarding to get good at it.

[Discane]

Healers clearing solo pve content are allways 1 1 1 1 1 1 even on lvl 90.

[Taran Tatsuuchi]

Publicado originalmente por Halvos:

Publicado originalmente por Giganx:

Yea, not sure how you BLM's deal with it.

Every other classes 1...... 2...... 1...... 2...... at low levels is thrilling.

Actually I feel like it's more of a caster issue, it feels like most casters early on have like, no meaningful spells. That said let me make this crystal clear for you. At level 18 Conjurer gets a spell called Stone Two, it has a cast time of 1.49 seconds and a potency of 190.

Until level 35 a thaurmaturges main damaging spells are Fire and Bliazzard both with the same stats of a 2.5 cast time and 180 potency.

THE HEALER DOES BETTER DPS THAN THE DPS MAGE! (I mean they will if they aren't healing that is.)

Still limited by the global cooldown, so even with a faster cast time they still can't start another until the 2.5 gcd has passed.

The quicker cast just gives more leeway for movement, or off global cooldown abiliites.

[Ashe]

ARR BLM Is actually the worst

1....1....1....1 oh firestarter proc....1.....1....1....

Ice and thunder

Back to fire.