The Black Sacrament -- A Guide To Black Mage

Based on this, it sounds like you have a Raetic+1, so hoping you can answer a simple question for me.. Does the extra MP cost get included in the TP return from Occult Acumen? ._. I've been wondering this since they were released and have yet to get a straight answer. lol orz

So tested with the NQ just now, It did not affect the tp, I don't think this is a bug, however, if blm really has problems with mp, even in places like dynamis divergence aspir is by far one of the most useful spells to remedy this. Temps can be used in most other content, or the content is short and mp should not be an issue.

Keep in mind with a buffed refresh 3 (12 tick if they have all the correct gear) and 3 ballads (30 tic) again with all the correct gear you have 42 tic of mp refresh before your gear comes into play.

Impact with the aeonic staff or with the empyrean staff 119 ag both can be great ways to recover mp too.

There is nothing that cant be done afk!

Naked script uragnites with moogle sakura yoran

Writing a skillup script is the easiest thing you can do, hell I can do it.

It's literally just this;

A thousand times. Did it for GEO, same thing for SMN, BRD, BLU, WHM RDM RNG NIN.

When you're done, delete the file, it'll stop casting like 5 minutes later, or shutdown and it'll stop. Not elegant or anything like a lua but even the tech challenged can do it.

Or just use repeater (or w/e counterpart is in windower)

If you're naked (PDT/fast cast pieces only) and no weapon, it'll still die eventually, just move on to another one. might take 2 or 3 to cap.

Tier 1, yes.

Cheers for the pointers.



Had a real blast putting this together.

In scripts as blizzard.txt (or whatever you want to name it)

/console exec blizzard.txt

Yeap, I'm oldschool. Damn kids and your damn fancy luas.

But yeah, I like it, simple and clean. Don't need 600 lines of code with if/then statements and conditions.

Just some good ol Copy Pasta

hey so far as i can tell Raetic staff +1 is BIS atm is that correct? anything it looses to not counting AM's

also directX you should be able to find a lua called "dostuff" is a simple lua lets you repeat alot of stuff though.
right now i can't seem to remember who wrote it though sorry.

Comet for darkness magic bursts, haven't used meteor in years now

For those NM you kill with death strat, when death is down comet is your best choice for damage

Comet is a good way to get extra darkness damage out, and depending on how good your gear is it can be quite alot of extra damage while waiting on death recast. Just remember when making your lua that Comet will be a special case, as it shares the Affinity Gear with death, but favors normal bursting gear otherwise.

Comet also gives a debuff that increases dark damage taken for 60sec (up to 100sec w/ empy+1 pants.) Works the same as the -ja line of spells, so it can be used to increase your Death damage (and others' stuff like Leaden Salute, Sanguine Blade and Tenebral Crush as well.)

Wait, I thought all of the -ja spells + Comet only increased in Potency when used with the same spell? I’m not seeing anything on BG about it adding Darkness Damage taken +.

Using "Comet" only

Each use of the same element spell in the cumulative magic family increases the damage taken by that element by 5%.

Spells cast by different players all add on to the first timer.

EX: 3x BLM all cast Comet > mob now takes dark dmg+15% for 60sec after the first one out of those three lands.

EX2: Same 3x BLM all cast Comet again within the timer > mob now takes dark dmg+30% until the above 60sec timer ends.

EX3: One of those same 3x BLM hits the wrong macro and pops off a Firaja while the other two are casting Comet > Firaja lands, resets timer to 60sec, mob now takes fire dmg+5% > 2x Comet land, 1st resets timer to 60sec, after 2nd lands mob now takes dark dmg+10%.

I have no idea whatsoever if there is a cap on this term, or what said cap might be.
If you can swing it macrowise, it's best to only use the pants on the first cast to extend the timer since they otherwise suck. And

What makes you think that's how it works?

If that were the case no one would ever cast death they would just spam Firaja then a volley of 99999 fire 6s

Quoted from BGwiki's Cumulative Magic page:
The debuff just matches the element of the -ja/Comet used.

Wow. That is actually how it works.

All those times we did death strats. Jesus christ it would've been even faster with a volley of comets first.

Fire> 759
Fire> 759
*Firaja*
Fire> 794
Fire> 794

Damage cap is still 99,999 so the extra Comets would only help those not already capping out Death. Very few players probably bother with the 119 empy pants+1 too, so there's usually only a 60sec window before the buff resets. Putting those aside tho, I've always found it quite helpful to work -ja's into my spell rotation when doing MB strats of any element. They even tend to MB for somewhere between T5-T6 damage, so the only real downside to them is the AOE nature may mess with adds on fights that have adds.

The extra damage boost from -ja/Comet also gets painfully outweighed by the multiple-nuke-in-quick-succession penalty system, which is probably why it gets ignored. Forgive me, I don't remember the accepted name for that thing. ><;; Hopefully you get what I mean though..

EDIT to match your edit XD: O_o Those numbers don't match up to a clean +5%. Possible that the -ja/Comet debuff gets added early into the magic damage formula? Maybe staff/affinity?

After second death, the 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th for that set were no where near cap, extra +40% wouldv'e been... "noticeable"

(they werent the best blms lol getting them to alternate deaths never really worked all that well)