Blue Mage: Best thread ever

[Alistaire]

I think he meant you can't macro other macro boxes (Ex: Use a macro to activate another macro).

No, you'd need to tap the macro key twice.

So Alt 1 could be:
equip this
equip that
equip the other thing
equip more of this
/echo Cannonball setup
/macro book 2

and on macro book 2 alt 1 would be:
equip other stuff
cast stuff
wait
/p I'M FIRIN MAH CANNONBALL <t>!!!

So yeah, you can't have 2 macros with 1 keypress, but you can spam alt1 20 times if you had a macro that spanned books 1-20 with lines to hit the next book in each.

[Yugl]

I was talking about Kaslo when I said "he".

[Ddboner]

I have a quick question.

I know that Skill 300 -> D69. What I'm wondering is (please disregard the AF2 hat stats) since I'm not going to push into the next damage tier is there any point to adding more skill via merits when I'm @ 301 now?

Thanks,

[Ladydeathstrike]

merriting blue magic skill will help with magic accuracy, a little more damage absorbed from diamondhide and is widely believed that blue magic skill effects "attack" for most physical spells

[Jujubee]

I have a question for BLU also. For spells that say "Damage of effect varies with TP." Does that mean storing up 300% TP will cause them to do more damage? Someone told me TP actually doesn't effect our physical spells, so I just want to make sure. And as a Taru BLU, whats a good stat to focus on, STR, DEX, HP? >.>

When solo, I find myself expending most if not all my MP in battle trying to kill my enemies before they kill me. I solo with /BST sub and pets never hold aggro on T+ mobs. Even if all I do is melee.. -_-

[Charismatic]

TP only matters when you pop Chain Affinity

[Yugl]

Focus on ACC and ATT for meleeing (Should have Melee Set and Spell set). For physical spells focus on ACC and STR. Most BLUs generally melee with the occasional Head Butt to stun the enemy and save big spells for when they have TP to self-skillchain.

[DragonCloud64]

Anyone happen to get their hands on the -1 Relic Blu hat? And if so is the Breath damage damage upped?

[Sho]

Anyone happen to get their hands on the -1 Relic Blu hat? And if so is the Breath damage damage upped?

A friend of mine got the -1 AF Har, he's just waiting on the actual AF now. I'll ask him after he gets it and upgrades.

[Dammerung]

I'll be getting af2+1 hat on sunday. I suppose I could do some tests on it (but I doubt it will be anything special). I got the nq and -1 last week actually but af1+1 body was more important >_>

[Dammerung]

HP 1082 no hat (+15hp ring equipped): 541 heat breath

HP 1082 hat+1: 595 heat breath

so that's still just a 10% increase

[el_tio]

Has anyone tested Brave Grip with SA spells yet?

[Yugl]

Villian on KI said he did and it wasn't impressive. I'm interested in hearing about Wise Strap in relation to Breath Spells.

[Suiram]

Breath spells aren't affected by MAB, so shouldn't be affected by magic crit.

[Ladydeathstrike]

my testing with brave grip and sa spells is about a 3% increase

[Yugl]

Brave grip outdoes Axe Grip for Vertical Cleave then?

[Ladydeathstrike]

yes it is was able to break 2k on vc vs mobs outside jeuno with brave grip something i couldnt do before

[Villian]

I didn't notice a big gap between vulcan staff/brave grip vs wing sword+1/acheron shield on tiamat/khim but I didn't have a brd so my defense was 50-60ish lower with staff (was like 680-690def vs 740-750ish). But for vertical cleave I find staff silly due to the ability not being able to hit with a staff. Unless you are just purely doing SA cleave. Sword and Shield is also nice for TA or CATA Tiamat when your tank is roared.

[LD]

Since brave grip increases crit damage and BLU physicals that don't have "crit based on TP" don't crit on their own, yea, this is only concerning SA+ physical. -_-

[Havok]

can anyone give some actual conclusive tests with brave grip and SA cannonball
give us some numbers with how much it increases damage by

observations like "i used it on khim and i didn't like it" are completely worthless lol. cannonball on khim has such a wide range of damage without even changing your gear, it's not exactly the best thing to test on.

I'd do it myself but my server fails at taking over stronghold zones so far