You guys asked, so here it is – my Endwalker Black Mage Guide. Hopefully some point later in the expansion, there will also be a detailed video guide for optimization. And, hopefully nothing major changes throughout the expansion so this guide will hold! But if there are specific patch changes, I might make a video discussing them and their impact to BLM gameplay.
If this video helps even just one person improve at Black Mage , I’ll have accomplished my goal!
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Timestamps:
0:00 Start
0:59 What Materia to Meld?
3:00 What DPS should I be doing?
3:51 Openers
4:20 Fire 3 Opener
4:49 Why not a Blizzard opener?
5:19 F3 Opener Demonstration
6:23 Explanation of Opener Ice Phase Spell Ordering
7:07 Leylines / Prepull Leylines
7:43 Transpose Openers
8:28 MP Tick Problems for Transpose Openers
9:51 Black Mage Standard Single Target Rotation
10:55 Adjusting the Standard Rotation for Movement
11:12 Thunder Reapplication in Astral Fire
11:44 Standard Rotation: Frequently Asked Questions
11:53 Triplecast Usage
12:32 Amplifier and Leylines Usage
12:54 Manafont Usage
13:25 Sharpcast Usage
13:48 Fast Casts
14:10 Sharp Thunder vs. Sharp Paradox
14:54 How do you Weave, and what is Clipping?
17:08 Are Long Ice Phases Bad?
17:50 Firestarter Procs – What to do with them?
18:22 Non-Standard Gameplay, Introduction
19:18 Basic Slow F3 4xF4 Despair Line
20:20 Problems with Slow F3 Transpose Lines
20:50 AF1 F3P Standard Transpose Line
21:10 Why use F3P in Astral Fire 1?
22:00 F3P Double Transpose Lines
22:46 Instant F3 Transpose Lines
23:06 Other Transpose Lines
23:35 Non-Transpose Blizzard 4 Skips and why you shouldn’t do them
24:21 Do you have to use Transpose Stuff to get a Good Parse?
24:54 How to get a Good Parse (Uptime and Always Be Casting)
26:09 When to use nonstandard and when to use standard
27:15 When do we use AOE?
27:36 2-target AOE gains
28:21 Standard AOE Rotation
29:37 Why three High Fire 2s?
30:27 Triplecast and Foul in AOE
31:00 You made it to the end, congrats!
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i love you so much (no homo)
Awesome! Here we go. Thank you, captain.
Thank you Eksu
Thanks Eksu!! You're amazing, keep it up!!
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Best video about this job I have ever seen, give it some love! <3
Thank you!
Thx for the great guide. I thought that not using transpose lines often would be a bigger dps loss. I manly use the transpose after paradox when i have a firestarter proc. I tried the other lines in Shadowbringer but i had problems with the restrictiv movement so i stopped using them. I am really hyped for Pandaemonium Savage. Will you Prog as Blackmage and stream it?
Thank you so much for this video. I recently started playing blm and it’s super fun, although I’m currently quite bad at it but I’ll practice and try to use your tips
Fantastic guide, Eksu!
May all your parses be gilded.
You truly do deserve so much more recognition by the community not only for your content but the quality of your content, please keep it up! <3
God-like guide and well made.
Thanks for all the hard work that went into this.
Great info, great presentation
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THANK YOU!!!!!! GOAT STATUS
Most importantly, what glam are you using?
actual most competent BLM EW guide I found so far.
10/10, would have being a 11/10 if you showed the paradox despair only rotation :^)
Awesome video!
Even as an experienced blm player i'm glad to have watched this video. Haven't given a lot of thought about the 2 target optimization of high fire 2 or foul over xeno for thing like hyd ex. Amazing work!
I was waiting patiently for your wisdom on the BLM lvl 90 Life. Thank you!
thanks for the good video
This presentation and clarity should be the standard for all guides, Thank you for all the work you do for the BLM community!
Killed it bro GJ
Very well made guide. Thank you!
Yay finally!
Godlike
Thank goodness I can stick to standard rotation. I'm not a fan of the new transpose-paradox plays I've seen. While I'm fine with doing it for an opener, I wouldn't want to do it again throughout a fight.
Amazing guide thanks so much because i needed a guide for black mage i wanna become a black mage main
I would consider myself an intermediate black mage in the very best of cases but the things you've introduced to me in this video might very well be what pushes me up a tier. This is amazing stuff and the sheer volume of tricks to optimize your damage is mind blowing.
You answered every single question I had about the job, and even questions I didn't have. Thank you so much, this guide is very clear and valuable 🙂
Thank you so much for this guide. Had been questioning myself for a long time on different playstyles such as transpose usage for quite some time, but it made more sense for EW since it'll be the most up to content.
This is a all-in-one video from beginners to experienced players alike, worthy of watching and revisiting later.
Just one question I have. As an upper intermediate black mage player looking into finding a raid group, how hard will it be? I’m willing to flex summoner especially for prog since I know black mage can really struggle there but I mainly want to play black mage. Will I have a lot of trouble finding a group?
X ethers?
what are your gshade settings 👀
This is the best guide for BLM by far, to add to that its from the possibly top BLM out there.
i mostly cast scathe
Watched this with ads on me and my boyfriends phone. I'd even send you Gil as a tip lmaooo.
You make Megumin very proud! This is the best video for EW I found on youtube. So much important if not the most important information. Thank you for the time and the quality you put in this. Keep up the amazing work and the great streaming content!
absolutely amazing guide. I want to get into DPSing more after being a tank main since HW and always enjoyed BLM, so this was really helpful for me. lots of useful information and heaps of stuff i didn't know/consider when i started playing it.
i just became a black mage main for my static and this video is a godsent. I am loving blm so much and having to actually study and be educated and well versed on so many in-
game functions to be any effective on blm makes the class so endearing. Happy I found your channel and im sure your making lots of newcomer blms very glad they found your channel.
youre a legend!