Blue Mage: Best thread ever

[grozny]

Did a fast 2 spell test.

On a T gnat, Regurg went from 420 to 469.

Again another mob, 420 - 469 All casts from the front, since embrace pulls hate easy.

[Yugl]

210 > 241 MND Blast.

[Takiwaki]

Blazing Bound - Limule

Vit +2 Agi +1
MP 113 Blu Points 3
Level 80

[Yugl]

512 (MND69+22) Cure.

[lovehatehero]

Sucks we get the shaft on the new miserable coast camp, cant mp drainkiss the birds there damn vultures ; ;

[Meian]

15 pots later, only one Battery Charge used... this is worse than forcing the monkeys to use Magic Fruit

[spider123]

Plenilune Embrace is pretty awesome (under New Moon anyway...)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...24/Embrace.png

Hume BLU76/RDM38 MND62+53, no Apollo's staff. I capped her HP out after she was unweakened. (Taru WHM)

/sch with staff+grip and a few +mnd pieces that I'm missing would easily break 550+, maybe even 600.

[Pykey]

I used to play around with Animating Wall back in the day.
I would wait for the mobs to buff themselves then absorb the buff with Voracious Trunk.
When I did that, the amount of haste i got was ridiculous ( i thought I calculated 30% from recasts, but it could be less).
If the buff keeps the same haste as the mobs get from it, I wouldn't be surprised if it was around 20% haste.

[Belgaer]

I used to play around with Animating Wall back in the day.
I would wait for the mobs to buff themselves then absorb the buff with Voracious Trunk.
When I did that, the amount of haste i got was ridiculous ( i thought I calculated 30% from recasts, but it could be less).
If the buff keeps the same haste as the mobs get from it, I wouldn't be surprised if it was around 20% haste.

I seriously doubt it, looking at the MP cost.

[Force-Attuned Krogoth]

I was playing around with Plenilune as blu/sch, hitting 630 with 60+45 mnd and light staff, while Magic Fruit was doing 525. When I changed spells around, 640 Embrace with 60+55 mnd, and 540 with Fruit. Unless there's a drastic change with moon phase, I don't forsee the MAB or heal being worth 108 MP, and how often do you need both at the same time?

[Sho]

Can confirm those old VZX postings of his Blue Magic Pages now. Confirmed D73 @ 319~321 skill. Will check D75 @ 328 skill soon.

[Kegsay]

Blazing Bound and Accrid Stream are soloable in Abyssea-La Theine. To find the Limules, go further south.

[Vegetatheprince]

I seriously doubt it, looking at the MP cost.

Animating Wail:
Description = Increases Attack Speed (no AoE mentioned)

MP cost = 53 and if you scaled Haste's mp/haste% that would result in 20% haste @ 53 mp.

[Belgaer]

Animating Wail:
Description = Increases Attack Speed (no AoE mentioned)

MP cost = 53 and if you scaled Haste's mp/haste% that would result in 20% haste @ 53 mp.

Very interesting. o_O

[Draylo]

Anyone able to test Battery Charge yet?

[Kyte]

I think one of the more notable changes for BLU may not be our own, but rather the ones for RDM. RDM tanking has lost a lot of its luster, and BLU has always been a good alternative for disengaged tanking.

Provided that our own spells weren't ninja edited (which I doubt), we have forms of most of RDM's hate tools- although of course many of their shortcomings still exist, such as their range. We also still lack their stoneskin, but given that Accession is now more widely available, that is now less of a problem.

[Draylo]

We always had the ability to tank just as well as a RDM tbh. Too many people downplay BLU on these forums and don't care to think about it.

[Kyte]

We always had the ability to tank just as well as a RDM tbh

RDM tanking has lost a lot of its luster, and BLU has always been a good alternative for disengaged tanking.

I realize this lol

However, now with some of Red Mage's, and more indirectly Ninja's, best hate tools disabled, BLU tanking is considerably more attractive.

[Nightfyre]

The Acrid Stream mobs would make a decent solo camp for ~76 if you could stay there for any decent amount of time

[Draylo]

I realize this lol

However, now with some of Red Mage's, and more indirectly Ninja's, best hate tools disabled, BLU tanking is considerably more attractive.

Ah ok missed that line. Yeah this is true, will be interesting to see that aspect of our job get used more often