Blue Mage: Best thread ever

[Delekii]

Shit is situational, macro them.



No, seriously

[Tubbers]

Shit is situational, macro them.



No, seriously

This. Why wouldn't you macro them to get the benefit from both?

[Meian]

Yea, but then there's the problem of it working with Beseiged rules, you have to be in the PT, etc. etc.

Perhaps get a bunch of Blu together for it and spam the crap out on the mob to get hate at the end? It isn't that difficult to grab hate if one really desired it in Campaign, and for Blu is easier.

[Sesshoumaru]

Yea, but then there's the problem of it working with Beseiged rules, you have to be in the PT, etc. etc.

Perhaps get a bunch of Blu together for it and spam the crap out on the mob to get hate at the end? It isn't that difficult to grab hate if one really desired it in Campaign, and for Blu is easier.

hopefully in the new strongholds there will be weaker versions for us to get the spell from. Aside from that shit is gonna suck, but then Blus have managed to get spells from some pretty nasty mobs.

[Deftscythe]

Is Loq. Earring worth getting for someone with Blu as their only mage-ish job? I've been saving coins for a while but I'm wondering if I wouldn't be better off with the money. For context, the amount of coins I've saved is worth 500-750k on my server.

[Suiram]

I had one already, and I use it in any situation where I'm not meleeing or using damaging spells, but for most BLUs that isn't often enough to justify getting one if you don't have one already, plus there are other earrings that would be perfectly reasonable to use instead in those situations.

[BerenTebogo]

Is Loq. Earring worth getting for someone with Blu as their only mage-ish job? I've been saving coins for a while but I'm wondering if I wouldn't be better off with the money. For context, the amount of coins I've saved is worth 500-750k on my server.

I got a Loq. Earring when I had NIN only if for nothing else than shadows, there's really no reason not to get one.

[LD]

Yea, but then there's the problem of it working with Beseiged rules, you have to be in the PT, etc. etc.

Perhaps get a bunch of Blu together for it and spam the crap out on the mob to get hate at the end? It isn't that difficult to grab hate if one really desired it in Campaign, and for Blu is easier.

By that logic, why even bother with doing campaigns and hoping anders shows up? Why not go straight for the lobisons in an alliance? The same reason campaign is so iffy, with so many people killing the mob, the odds of killing it before it uses the move (or in the case of campaign, killing it at all) can be rather low. Hate is not the issue in campaign, it's the killing blow, and with so many people wailing on it, even if you think you'll be the one to grab it, it can quickly be taken from you. Don't try to shine up a shitty situation.

If they add standing gnoles somewhere else, what I said is irrelavent, since it was based on the idea that they wont, and I already expressed the hope that they will.

Loq is an excelent earring for a BLU who isn't focusing on their melee, especially since it helps spells besides physical ones. Really, the only other good ones I can think of for spellcasting(besides STR rings, which are limited to physical) are Magnetic & Suppa.

[eva00r]

Novia/Loq - Healing and do other stuff aside from nuking
and
Novio/Moldy - Hi 1.1k MB on Faf

FTW.

[Koyangi]

Only thing that worries me about the new spells is how we're gunna get Asuran Claws. I can only hope they have EP-EM standing Gnoles in Davoi.

Got a BLU friend of mine, also has Morr robe, and 4/5 homam (me too, he missing legs, I'm missing head), and I'll 2 box a WHM with like -40 enmity, I'm fairly certain we can "duo" the 1's in Jugner almost as soon as update hits.

Can pull the 1 by the maw and fight it by there so no links, and if sh*t gets bad, can sleep it and Maw out, but I personally think it's doable, and most likely another BLU will show up.

[LeifofKujata]

At present the ones in jugner do not do asuran claws, but they are not that difficult. Personally melee soloed them rdm/blm cause I was bored between campaign battles and needed a claw for a quest. I do hope they change it so more than just lobisons and Alpha Anders can change to standing to do asuran claws. Otherwise its gonna be like mind blast and body slam for many people all over again.

[Charismatic]

When he said the ones in jugner, he meant Lobisons (they are in Jugner)

[LeifofKujata]

When he said maw I don't recall any over there, but my mistake then

[Sesshoumaru]

They mention whm teles and blm warps but only hint at the possibility of Blus getting new spells in the update. Perhaps I'm being pessimistic but it bothers me that SE did not put a blurb in about new blu spells.
But yay for a decent update announcement compared to the other shit so far.

or ?

I think but with SE there is always the chance for .

Something that did intrest me is the whole:

A host of new magic and job abilities will be added to a number of jobs.

Of course they could simply be talking about ability dependant jobs only but hey SE may surprise us all and give a Job some abilities making them the, almost forgotten about, new tank job.
I had my eye on Bst as a possible new tank but from some more recent talk about how well Blu tanks some endgame content I can see SE easily making Blu a decent enough tank for much more content.

[Villian]

I just tried to solo one, after head butt + hysteric barrage it owned me in 2 seconds. Took all 3 of my shadows and bring my hp to 0 with 8 hits. Is this normal? This is at Last Quarter Moon 50%.

[BerenTebogo]

Is there any, any indication AT ALL that Asuran Claws will be added or is everyone just doing the usual turning baseless speculation into "SE said they were going to release AC!"

[Suiram]

Is there any, any indication AT ALL that Asuran Claws will be added or is everyone just doing the usual turning baseless speculation into "SE said they were going to release AC!"

I think it's that SE said they were going to release new BLU spells this update (not in the recent announcements but in that thing that Elmer translated), and that Asuran Claws animation is in the .dat files. So I don't know if you'd call that baseless speculation, but it's at least more realistic than the whole Battery Charge debate that was going on for a while.

[BerenTebogo]

Fair enough

[Villian]

Tried to solo them, the 2nd one did this to me. I'm afraid to solo them now.
http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q...309_224930.png

[Lordender]

I think i would check the new zones first to see if there is any Gnoles end up being in there that act like anders in campaign. I would not be surprised if those kinda Gnoles end up inside of davoi in the past.