Blue Mage: Best thread ever

[LD]

Not that it's been proven, but it's pretty certain Hafud's gunna be an Odin's Chamber Einherjar drop because, and this has been said at least twice, it looks exactly like the new sword the Dark Rider weilds in his new dat. So until someone totally beats tier 2 & 3....

Maybe this month's Einherjar changes will expidite the situation.

[rath]

hmmm...What are BLU's base statistical rankings (A, B, C, etc.)?

All E
We are the suckiest job when it comes to base stats

Galka blu/nin base stats at 75 before merits. In order from top to bottom.
65
63
69
60
57
57
52

[Repairs]

Regarding FrenRip/Disevernement parse results on Imps (Caed) - old:

CA Disevernment:
449 tracked attempts
High: 1005
Low: 370
Average: 772.1224944

Diseverenment:
481 tracked attempts
High: 783
Low: 273
Average: 600.8212058

Fren Rip
652 tracked attempts:
High: 699
Low: 115
Average: 487.797546

Bludgeon:
253 tracked attempts
High: 280
Low: 71
Average: 186.2173913

Base Stats for all:
117 str
82 dex
307 blu skill
290 sword skill
366 attack
30 acc (plus: solesushi+1 +16%?)
Main Sword base damage = 39
Off sword base damage = 36
10 magic acc
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Recent Imps, with upgraded merits (1 in TP bonus)

116 str
85 dex
307 blu skill
290 sword skill
24 acc (plus: solesushi+1 +16%?)
Main Sword base damage = 39
Off sword base damage = 36
10 magic acc

CA Disevernment
153 tracked
High: 995
Low: 451
Average: 770.8627

Diservenment
145 tracked
High: 745
Low: 312
Average: 596.2276

Fren Rip
223 tracked
High: 655
Low: 230
Average: 484.2691

Bludgeon
115 tracked
High: 259
Low: 67
Average: 187.6174

[Kaslo]

Was this normal mire or Khimeria Spawn?

[VZX]

More importantly, Enchainment won't work if CA is not activated, will it?

[Judai]

Those look pretty much like what I do on Hediva, I never exp elsewhere on BLU. Enchainment specifically says TP bonus on CA. Unless it's broken and nobody noticied, it won't work w/o CA.

[Odd]

probably noob question, forgive me if so. are blue mage magical ranged attacks affected by ranged accuracy? and if so, can i hold an imperial egg and rarely miss?

[VZX]

ranged attack is always physical, not magical.
and I doubt it's NOT affected by ranged accuracy

EDIT:... wtf, forgot to put NOT there

[Tonko]

What magic spells are you referring to being "ranged spells?"

If you mean things like Pincone bomb, Feather storm, Cannonball & the like, those are physical spells. I think they are influenced by Ranged Accuracy, but have not done any tests to confirm.

[Sho]

What magic spells are you referring to being "ranged spells?"

If you mean things like Pincone bomb, Feather storm, Cannonball & the like, those are physical spells. I think they are influenced by Ranged Accuracy, but have not done any tests to confirm.

Yeah, I did test way back when-- not affected by Ranged Acc. Cannonball is also non-ranged physical attack (just as a long range, like Mistral Axe).

[Tonko]

My accuracy with Pinecone Bomb always seems much lower than other spells, wonder why.

Page 100 in epic thread.

[Sho]

My accuracy with Pinecone Bomb always seems much lower than other spells, wonder why.

Pinecone Bomb is weird; it's like it has a lower accuracy than normal or something. Damn sure Ranged Acc does not affect itm however-- but if someone is willing to throw down some gil for an Imp Egg to test, they can be my guest. (Gonna get an Imp Egg, for a CHR build much later in the future however).

[Odd]

they aren't expensive on bahamut to test with. my blu's just not 75 yet.

[VZX]

Tested a bit about physical potency...
I know it's only 17 casts, it's still very few samples to conclude anything, but from the data, physical potency does nothing to increase the coefficient.
I wanted to test more but fucking Guivre say hi to me, so I gotta log for the night.

[ringthree]

My accuracy with Pinecone Bomb always seems much lower than other spells, wonder why.

Page 100 in epic thread.

Do you know what kind of ranged attack it is?

Accuracy for RA generally isn't very good (kind of like why it sucks to be a RNG from 66-69) and can vary for non-RNG's greatly depending on distance from target depending on RA type.

[Tonko]

All BLU ranged spells count as throwing as far as accuracy + sweetspot is concerned.

And I popped out an 1819 Eyes on Me Last night on a whim on a worm in Gustaberg.

[Evedgebah]

On the subject of Pinecone Bomb, has anyone else noticed the oddly high damage it produces on lower level mobs? I was messing around on BLU testing damage and hit a rabbit for just under 900 damage. Is there any way to reach those kinds of numbers on anything higher level? If we can boost it to even half of that it would be an extremely efficient DD spell.

[Tonko]

It's a ranged attack, so it suffers and benefits from all the ranged attack damage calculations, which are largely level based.

[VZX]

900? are you sure?
even my bow can't break 600 critical

[LD]

Your bow/arrow doesn't have stat mods. What amounts to a minor base damage increase will probably seem greater on a lower level mob. Plus, wasn't it already noted that BLU physical spells have no discernable fSTR cap?