Louiscool wrote:
I thought the flare rotation was ideal in T4? Though it does effectively kill B2 - B2 - F3 - Flare
With no one being able to spam Flare glitch anymore (glad I didnt get used to that), the flare rotation cant be used as often, so you need filler.
It used to be that going blizzard III and spamming Blizzard II was ideal over the Fire III > Fire II > Fire II > Fire II > Blizzard III > Fire III > Fire II > Fire II > Fire II combo because the dmg over time was simply better (~400 per ~2 second cast of blizzard II per enemy vs ~600 per ~4 second case of Fire II counting the time wasted recharging mana with Fire/Bliz III combo). I got less hate from blizzard II as well, it seemed.
In the middle of it all you could always go Swiftcast>Flare>Convert, then go blizzard III then spam back into blizzard II, but Flare couldn't be used all the time unless you glitched and I didn't. So blizzard II was my choice of aoe. Now the dmg has been effectively cut in half making the fire II rotation a better option.
Now I am curious about Freeze. I havent played around with it much since frankly before the patch it sucked (20 potency? ugh.) but now that it has been boosted 5x to 100 (where Blizzard II used to be before the nerf to 50) and its casting time lowered from 3.5 sec to 3 sec (and assuming it gives and reacts to umbral ice), then we might be in a situation where we can Blizzard III and spam Freeze for ~400 per 3 second cast per enemy.
So if we do the math, over 12 seconds, that will give fire II combo 1800 dmg per enemy and Freeze around 1600 dmg per enemy. Sadly though, the dmg from freeze will probably even be lower than that because unlike Blizzard II it will probably use enough mana that aoe will need to stop so mana can be recharged). And constantly targeting that ground reticule is going to get annoying.
So Fire II is now the best aoe combo for blm, and flare glitch has been killed, so blm aoe ability has effectively and significantly been nerfed, imo.
Louiscool wrote:
What? I'm not sure what you mean... There were some minor nerfs to classes, nothing to get pissed about, except for housing costs. What was removed? You don't like daily quests new dungeons new gear and PVP?
Believe it or not, the changes to the allagan pieces that had identical stats with the AF2 armor have significantly affected what most of us consider to be BiS. For instance, there is a fine line for me when it comes to BiS, and it involves me getting my ACC to 435. Any amount I go over that is wasted stats. I wear the allagan boots of casting. They give me valuable accuracy and a awesome boost to crit, plus they look so much cooler than the white AF elf shoes that blm has to wear (which up until this point had identical stats). So now I hear that my allagan boots will now give determination (what!?!) and spell speed (ugh) as opposed to accuracy and crit (two much more appreciated BiS stats). That means that after the update I am two shy, at 433 acc, and am going to have to spend a week + my better fashion sense to get the stupid AF2 boots so I can hit stuff in BC at 100%. Or I can rely on food. I really wanted my food to go towards det and crit.
Bottom line, sometimes little changes can mean a lot to the right people.