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Proceed by casting Fire III, this will remove all Umbral Ice and grant you full stacks of Umbral Fire, but will not consume an Umbral Heart. If you're coming in from an AoE rotation and already have full Umbral Ice and Umbral Hearts, you'll start here. This is obviously where a majority of our damage comes from, and it's only gotten better in Shadowbringers. Now we get to the bread and butter of BLM's single target rotation, the fire. You have more important spells to cast and precious little time to cast them without Thunder III hogging up your GCD. Unlike the AoE rotation however, we will be ignoring all Thunder Cloud procs during single target rotations. Umbral Hearts are important because they greatly reduce the MP cost of your fire spells.įinish this half of the rotation by casting Thunder III, which is essentially the single target and more potent version of Thunder IV. Next cast Enochian, then follow up with Blizzard IV, which will grant you three stacks of Umbral Hearts. Start by casting Swiftcast, then use it to cast Blizzard III, this grants you a full stack of Umbral Ice, which you'll need to proceed quickly. Leylines (Cast whenever available in a safe spot where minimal movement is required).You'll thus be able to skip to a certain point in the rotation, but for now we'll be assuming you're starting your rotation fresh, nothing to build off of. FFXIV Black Mage Single Target RotationīLM's single target rotation often builds off your AoE's rotation, meaning you'll have Enochian active and a full stack of Umbral Ice and Umbral Hearts from using Umbral Soul. If you feel like showing off, you can cast some of your cooldown spells like Leylines or Swiftcast, but this is 100% not necessary for trash mobs. This removes your stacks of Umbral Fire, grants you full stacks of Umbral Ice, and will quickly replenish your MP.Īfter you've finished killing everything in your path, you'll use Tranpose if you have Umbral Fire active to switch to Umbral Ice, then spam Umbral Soul until you get to the next pack of mobs or boss you need to destroy. If you can't cast Foul yet, then you'll go back to the start of the rotation and cast Freeze again. This is Flare's bad ass older brother, and essentially does the same thing but is much more powerful. If you have a Polyglot from your Enochian upkeep, cast Foul. Now that you're without MP, you have two options. Because we have the Umbral Heart from Freeze, you'll still have 1/3rd of your MP left, which is enough to immediately cast another Flare. Normally Flare completely depletes your MP. Then cast Flare, and brace your eyeballs for the bright explosion of fiery goodness hitting every mob in range. This empowers all your Fire spells while increasing their MP cost. This will damage your target, remove your stacks of Umbral Ice, and grant you full stacks of Umbral Fire. This will also deal the full remaining damage of the Thunder IV DoT on each target it hits.Īfter finishing that first half of the rotation, you'll switch over to doing your real damage.Ĭast Fire III. This will hit every single mob in the pack with lightening damage and put a Lightning DoT on them as well.Įach tick from every single DoT has a 10% of granting you Thunder Cloud, which lets you cast Thunder IV again for free. To top off this half of the rotation, you'll be casting Thunder IV. It's also required for casting Fire IV or Blizzard IV. Not only does the buff grant you 15% bonus Magic Damage, but for every 30s you manage to keep it up, you will be granted one Polyglot, which are used to cast your most powerful spells. This is the most important part of both BLM rotations, and you will be casting around the idea of keeping this spell up at all times. It's also an AoE spell, so you'll do a bit of damage to everything in the pack. Freeze Grants you a full stack of Umbral Ice, and one Umbral Heart, which is all you need for the AoE rotation. This has multiple advantages over casting Blizzard III and into Blizzard IV to gain your Umbral Hearts, the first being time. To start off with, you'll be targeting the beefiest target in the pack of mobs your tank has pulled and cast Freeze. Umbral Soul (Spam until next pack of mobs or boss is pulled).Thunder IV (and again, every time Thunder Cloud procs).Some black mages think you should start off the same as your single target rotation. We'll be starting with the AoE rotation first, since more often than not in a dungeon or raid you'll be building off this rotation to go into your single target rotation. You must have an in-depth knowledge of the class's mechanics to make the best used of a black mage at endgame. Like many other classes, the AoE (multiple target) rotation is more simple than its single target counterpart. A BLM has two distinct rotations for either situation.