For a while now, there has been a blm rotation going around that skips blizzard 4 and fire 1, opting to do 4 fire 4's and a despair rather than 6 fire 4's and a despair. This is apparently slightly stronger and is clearly an unintended rotation.
By blm rule of thumb, casting fire 1 is worth it if you can get another fire 4 and can still use despair. Then, the suggested proposal is to bring blizzard 4's potency per second in line with fire 1's.
Fire 1 has 324 potency under astral fire 3 and a cast time of 2.5s. This is a pps of 129.6.
Blizzard 4 has a cast time of 2.8s. Multiplying that with the above pps gives us 362.88 potency. For a round number and to make the intended rotation indeed the optimal one, we'll raise that to 370 potency. Note, blizzard 4's current potency is 300.
Thus, I propose a 70 potency buff to blizzard 4 from 300 to 370 so that the developers' intended rotation is appropriately effective. In the long run, this is around a 0.8% increase to blm's dps which is significant but not so significant as to be game-breaking.
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By blm rule of thumb, casting fire 1 is worth it if you can get another fire 4 and can still use despair. Then, the suggested proposal is to bring blizzard 4's potency per second in line with fire 1's.
Fire 1 has 324 potency under astral fire 3 and a cast time of 2.5s. This is a pps of 129.6.
Blizzard 4 has a cast time of 2.8s. Multiplying that with the above pps gives us 362.88 potency. For a round number and to make the intended rotation indeed the optimal one, we'll raise that to 370 potency. Note, blizzard 4's current potency is 300.
Thus, I propose a 70 potency buff to blizzard 4 from 300 to 370 so that the developers' intended rotation is appropriately effective. In the long run, this is around a 0.8% increase to blm's dps which is significant but not so significant as to be game-breaking.
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