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Gear isn't going to help. It sounds like this friend of yours needs a crash course on how to BLM before he even gets worried about his stat loadout.

Let's address the things you brought up here:

Enochian use - Enochian does 2 things, it increases all the damage you do by 5% and enables the use of Fire 4 and Blizzard 4. Enochian has a 30 second duration and a 60 second cooldown, the effect can be refreshed by casting Blizzard 4, though it loses 5 seconds off its total duration each time it's refreshed this way. This means that the first Enochian will have a 30 second duration, after a Blizzard 4 it'll be 25 seconds, then 20 seconds, and so on. A good Enochian rotation under ideal conditions should have you casting Blizzard 4 twice and the duration should last up to or right before the cooldown finishes so you can go right back into Enochian again.

A standard Enochian rotation on a target dummy should look like this (I'm omitting other cooldowns for simplicity):
Fire 3 -> Enochian -> Fire 4 -> Fire 4 -> Fire 1 -> Fire 4 -> Fire 4 -> Blizzard 3 -> Blizzard 4 -> Repeat

That's super basic and ignores everything other than managing your Enochian time. Once he's comfortable doing that, he can start weaving in the other cooldowns like Ley Lines, Convert, Raging Strikes, and Sharpcast to increase his dps. But get the basics down first and understand how Enochian works. You can do that rotation about 3 times before your Enochian just falls off on its own. The rule of thumb at a normal level of spell speed is that if your Enochian has less than 3 seconds left on it, you don't have enough time to cast Blizzard 4 without Swiftcast.

My preferred AoE rotation is this:
Fire 3 -> Enochian -> Fire 2 -> Fire 2 -> Fire 2 -> Flare -> Transpose -> Blizzard 4 -> Repeat until the bad guys fall down

There's no debuff from Fire 2 that you were talking about, that's not a thing. The idea is to get your mp as low as possible but still have enough to cast Flare (it takes about 1100). The rule of thumb here is that if you have less than 3600 mp, you probably don't have enough to cast another Fire 2, cast Flare instead.

Get him started on how to play the job first, then worry about gear.

Well he can't, unless he can have someone running a parser standing next to him while he practices. But honestly, if he's got the rotation working properly, then his dps is fine. If he's struggling to manage Enochian properly, then his dps is not fine.

I haven't heard anything about that not working anymore. I would assume it still does.

based on what Im seeing what I be right in saying if you have an il190 weapons youre going to see literally NO difference in damage if youre wearing all il200-210 gear than you saw/had when you were wearing all il190-200 gear?

well with lower gear i was doin 800 dps, with higher gear but the same weapon... i can hit 1000-1100 dps at open/start of the attack and it gradually falls back down to 800 (and its gets there pretty fast)

with that last post i was talkin about brd not blm. I just posted in this topic because we know how ppl get if i start too many topics (despite the fact that theyre all about different things)