Blue Mage: Best thread ever

[stamos]

Question: Has anyone tried 4 BLU + 1 BRD + 1 RDM at the newer camp areas (vs Imp/Soulflayer, Greater Colibri)? How is the flow? Can MP be sustained with full out spammage of like Frenetic Rip + Disseverment to avoid resting? How do BLU fair against Greater Colibri (never fought these)

Tried soloing greater colibri, but they're too evasive to really chain. Got chain 2 and gave up. But, they have a 345 base xp for no chain solo

Is that a STR setup with no food? Or Acc setup? Your results with/without food?

The way I see it, Colibri won't learn anything from a physical blu spell, correct? I never XP'd or fought a Colibri (not lesser) before as BLU or with on in a party..

Solo might be tough, how about duo with a RDM? Was MP an issue?

Was in my usual tp set up(equip changing for each spell), I have 297 sword so acc usually is not an issue. I popped sushi, but they simply just have a lot more hp than imps to make them worthwhile. As for duo with a rdm, you can but there will probably be a little bit of resting involved. As for soloing imps> them. But on my warr greater colibri = <3

[CubsWoo]

I've got Divine Might scheduled tomorrow, going as BLU for the first time. Our current strat calls for a wipe after killing TT, MR and GK so my plan is to go full DD set/food for the first wave, and after the wipe swap into the +MND/MAB set to help nuke down EV during Invincible and deal damage at a distance vs. the HM before Mijin. It's something of a budget setup but I think it should put forth good numbers. The gear:

Thunder Staff (might be able to borrow a Jupiter's, not sure yet)
AF Head
Promise Badge
Geist/Moldavite
Errant body
Devotee's Mitts
Tamas/Sapphire
Prism
Steppe Rope
Errant Legs
Errant Feet

Spell set: Mind Blast, Reactor Cool, Magic Hammer, Memento Mori, Power Attack, Sprout Smack, Hydro Shot, Tail Slap, Bad Breath, Poison Breath, Venom Shell, Awful Eye, Cursed Sphere, Maelstrom

Get double MND etudes, eat a Mushpoot and drink a MND potion and Mori, Burst Affinity and Azure Lore a Mind Blast on EV then switch to a Light Staff and Magic Hammer her. How resistant is EV to nukes? I couldn't really find any concrete info on that. An even lower MND setup (I was missing around 12MND from the above setup at the time) was doing ~800 a cast with Mori and Burst Affinity on the Xzomit pops at Jailer of Justice which saved a few Mijins. Have any other BLUs done DM? I personally think we're a lot more useful than the average DD but it took some convincing to be able to come BLU instead of SMN.

[Demitrius]

This may have already been covered (in fact, I'm certain it was, 119 pages to fish through O.o) but Head Butt spam completely shuts down Proto-Ultima. With 2 Blue merits and AF body, stun was going off 80-90% of the time, and SA made the stun last as long as 5 seconds. It's even better when he has a physical shield up, because he's not getting extra TP.

I haven't played my BLU very much on endgame mobs, but I was pretty shocked after having stun proc maybe twice in an entire Kurrea fight.

[solsovly]

This may have already been covered (in fact, I'm certain it was, 119 pages to fish through O.o) but Head Butt spam completely shuts down Proto-Ultima. With 2 Blue merits and AF body, stun was going off 80-90% of the time, and SA made the stun last as long as 5 seconds. It's even better when he has a physical shield up, because he's not getting extra TP.

I haven't played my BLU very much on endgame mobs, but I was pretty shocked after having stun proc maybe twice in an entire Kurrea fight.

Kurrea might be an exception, he resists regular stuns as well. We couldn't land physical WS stuns either.

[Vobent]

This may have already been covered (in fact, I'm certain it was, 119 pages to fish through O.o) but Head Butt spam completely shuts down Proto-Ultima. With 2 Blue merits and AF body, stun was going off 80-90% of the time, and SA made the stun last as long as 5 seconds. It's even better when he has a physical shield up, because he's not getting extra TP.

I haven't played my BLU very much on endgame mobs, but I was pretty shocked after having stun proc maybe twice in an entire Kurrea fight.

Kurrea might be an exception, he resists regular stuns as well. We couldn't land physical WS stuns either.

What about SA headbutts?
On Kurrea

[Demitrius]

Didn't try, I was /NIN, didn't think SA would matter much in a 3 minute fight. However, Head Butt did seem to interrupt a hell of a lot of spells anyway.

[solsovly]

Didn't try, I was /NIN, didn't think SA would matter much in a 3 minute fight. However, Head Butt did seem to interrupt a hell of a lot of spells anyway.

Did you get the actual stun message? I recently did a couple runs of them and he seemed to get interupted decently with 6 melees or so.

[Demitrius]

I did not see the stun message once, but he did seem to delay slightly after a Butt, and like I said, everyone in the vicinity said it was interrupting all sorts of fun stuff.

[Moochi]

Head butt + SA doesn't guarantee a stun, don't even think it makes a difference at all.

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[andretti]

Head butt + SA doesn't guarantee a stun, don't even think it makes a difference at all.

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agreed

[Demitrius]

It may not, but if it doesn't affect it, then the placebo effect is huge. Against Ultima, SA Head Butt was stunning for 3-5 seconds. Most of my regular stuns lasted two seconds, tops.

[Serif]

How is BLU damage on JoL ?

Thinking about possibly using it on JoL, any thoughts?

[Mashu]

How is BLU damage on JoL ?

Thinking about possibly using it on JoL, any thoughts?

JoL's physical defense is through the roof. I can't speak from personal experience, but I would think magical blu spells would have better results.

[Naramaska]

How is BLU damage on JoL ?

Thinking about possibly using it on JoL, any thoughts?

JoL's physical defense is through the roof. I can't speak from personal experience, but I would think magical blu spells would have better results.

DEF on it "feels" about the same as Kirin to me, SAM's in our LS were pumping out about 1-1.2k SA Gekko on it yesterday, so i'd imagine that melee with "proper" BRD support should do just fine.

Only problem is, you know, Yovra TP moves suck ass to deal with.

[Dohorehn]

I checked everywhere, and didn't see any documented Temporal Shift stuns on Kirin. Albeit, somebody has probably done this already. I pulled it off twice yesterday and was pretty excited.

http://sen-shuu.tripod.com/blustun.JPG

[Not Kuno]

Tripod is gay but cool stun.

[Dohorehn]

yeah tripod sucks lol. My old image host started charging, and i was like f' that.

[Zeosilot]

I checked everywhere, and didn't see any documented Temporal Shift stuns on Kirin. Albeit, somebody has probably done this already. I pulled it off twice yesterday and was pretty excited.

http://sen-shuu.tripod.com/blustun.JPG

It's possible for a Blue Mage to stun with temporal shift just like it's possibe for a Black Mage to do so, it's just very unlikely seeing as Kirin is earth based and highly resistant to Thunder based spells.

Headbutt ftw!

[Celeras]

The add effect stun proc on headbutt is also thunder based. You havent been able to consistently stun kirin with headbutt since they nerfed /blu a month or so after the job came out.

[Murataki]

I suppose you if you need a one-shot BLU stun, could always fall back to using Jettatura. The duration is rubbish, but I can't recall ever seeing it fail.