Elemental Magic Damage

Hello, I have a question about BLM, nukes in particular. My BLM is level 99, and i have about +54 MAB from gear, not including staff, which is a chatoyant staff. My elemental skill is roughly 400 or a little more with gear and everything and I am a taru so INT is good as well. That being said, on mobs level 60-80+ I am only averaging 2.5k dmg on non-abyssea mobs with tier V spells. This is very dissapointing to me as I thought BLM could easily do 3.5-4.5k damage with tier V spells. So, is there any way i can reach this level of damage with gear or is BLM not as powerful as I had hoped?

Trial of the magian staves is your first and biggest damage boost.

Other than that, post your gear sets and I'm sure people will have suggestions.

In addition to the magian staves : Use burn, food, try to proc sorc ring, remember obis/weather gear and perhaps find other gear improvements if you want more epeen dmg figures.

Here is my gear setup for nuking.. Any thoughts beyond magian staves as far as great gains in consistent nuking dmg.
[li]http://www.ffxiah.com/item-sets/288131[/li]

stack MaB as much as you can. unless int is at least 3 times higher in said slot than the MaB. aka - dont nuke in full af3 like 99% of blm cuz every piece of it is outclassed by something else. although i dont know if you're going to hit 4.5k on non aby mobs as blm. as sch you could do that w/ ease, but blm aint no sch. i wish i could give you non aby numbers, but honestly i dont remember what i do on blm. but i have near perfect nuke set on both my blm and sch and in aby i do probly 5.5k on blm and about 8.3k with the same nuke on sch. non-crit, non-af3 proc. just normal situation stuff

Believe this wld be best. Nvm I think its nares cuffs 13 mab then gain few int from set with head. Yes strendu ring ofc my bad I even own one long-time. Strendu/galdr when sorc ring inactive.

only improvement i see that i know of (mainly cuz they are coming out w/ gear faster than i can keep up) is the 2nd ring. You can get a MaB +3 ring from aby tahrangi. which would very slightly out-do the galdr ring. well sorta. int and mab arent on a direct relationship so if you lack the int against blm mobs then id take that back. but its about the lolwar now so i dont think anybody cares about various nuking sets at this point in the game.

grrrr... so at least 4k without latent-nonsense gear and weather-specific gear may not be possible on non-abyssea mobs.... *eyeballs the auction house and sales NPC's after removing gearz*

4k is possible on stuff in like NNI w/o weather. In legion or something you won't though. Think my highest nuke in legion is like 3600 (granted that is on sch, blm would vary a little).

thank you, sawtelle, I had just gotten really dissapointed as I've had BLM for years and finally am getting near to capping it out, and I guess I expected a bit more from the job. But if 4k+ dmg is possible without atma, then that is still very good, and allows me to do upwards of 25k+ dmg. on one tank of MP.

Thanks alot everyone for the input, gives me a much better idea of what blm's limits are (outside of abyssea). Now off to do a few magian staves...

Why nobody mentioned strendu ring.... MAB+4 Ma.acc+2
And best grip is Skrati Grip then Wizzan Grip or Elder's Grip.

Strendu ring is definately good, i use it instead of sorc. ring simply because I usually don't carry around convert gear to activate the latent. I would put Galdr over strendu though beause on the official forums they talked about changing the way magic damage is calculated, giving INT a bigger impact. And with current setup the difference is negligable.