Use on cooldown until you identify fight-specific sections where holding Triple is better. If you clip to use Triple, most of the benefit is negated.

It will often naturally line up with mechanics. Triplecast (Triple) has the most value paired with some combination of F4 and Despairs. It’s often better to hold for mechanics / movement / panic purposes. Swift is a marginal dps gain and ends up as a dps loss if it causes clipping. More importantly, it keeps you in range of AoE party buffs (Battle Litany, Battle Voice, Divination, etc). Instead, slidecast or leverage instants to move into position at your leisure.īeing in AoE heal range helps your healers. If you wait until a mechanic starts before moving into position you’ll feel rushed and end up burning a lot of movement options.

Many mechanics can also be handled by being where you need to be in advance. You still lose some time between casts, but it is better than not casting at all. Slidecast to move short distances or dodge AoEs when you don’t have a proc or instant available. Practice slidecasting on a dummy to determine your personal threshold. The timing is ~0.5s before the cast ends, but varies based on latency and hardware. You can start moving when a cast is close to finishing and still have the cast complete. This is the most important aspect of Black Mage. To maximize DPS you want to Always Be Casting (ABC) and maximise spell cast uptime against movement and mechanics. Black Mage has no damaging oGCDs and a very simple rotation.

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