Blue Mage: Best thread ever

[Draylo]

Some HNM spells would be really fun. White wind as next tier of AOE healing spell since only have healing breeze atm. Discoid or Mortal Revolution >.>, need some salvage spells!

[Onorgul]

Possibly a dumb question, I know, but with a personal Refresh, can you operate without Auto-Refresh? That always seems to be the one trait that eats up the most Blue Magic Points.

[Draylo]

It's possible but the spells that are generally set for auto refresh are actually helpful. Plasma Charge has nice +stats, actinic burst is awesome for flashga. Frightfrul roar is a good def down if you choose that.

[Sho]

I'm not gonna lie, Sanguine Blade is pretty nice for BLU soloing when it's not a Darkness based mob. getting 200~300 drains here.

You can definitely live without Auto-Refresh now, simply because of Relic Body. In fact, I'm happy someone brought the fact up.

[Draylo]

For most standard builds for regular blu things, I don't see why you wouldn't want the auto refresh spells set though.

[Sho]

Maybe for more of a stretch on Refresh. I agree that a BLU can only go so far as MP can be recovered without resting, but at least now you can forfeit it for another trait/stats towards spell or Sword dmg. For example SATA Cannonball -- I'd probably set another STR/VIT spell, instead of trying to maintain auto refresh.

[Draylo]

Yeah that is true, I meant generally not really specific builds. So basically TP + WS, instead of magical or CB sets etc. It is nice to be able to do that now though.

Edit: Would also be nice if they let our curing spells work out of party, like they did for DNC.

[Sho]

Ahh, for TP/WS it's still applicable. 4(5) Refresh Body or Auto vs 5(6) Refresh Body & Auto. The big thing is that we can keep over 4~5 permanently without having a Tizona or waiting for the RDM/BRD/COR to do it for us.

Btw, I counted 1 tick offa Battery Charge because it's essentially a normal refresh when you consider the time/tick and initial MP cost.

[Sho]

Also another place to skill up would be on mid tier and boss type Besieged mobs. When I get a chance I'll see about those forts in Castle Z [S].

[Draylo]

I was getting good skill ups on diabolos and puk isnm if anyone cares for those haha.

[darkepyon]

Honestly, I believe there are a few changes that SE could make to Blu and it would ease alot of the frustration some blus feel over their spells.

1. Make some debuffs last longer

Blu is a great debuffing job, but some of our debuffs wear off a few seconds after they are cast. One example is Aweful eye. The Str down effect barely lasts even on Easy Prey mobs and below.

2. Lower the MP cost of spells to be equivalent to their Damage or equivalent debuff

There is no need for spells like 1k needles and Bad Breath costing what they do considering there are other spells that do similar damage/debuffs that cost much much less.

3. Allow MP draining spells and weapons to work against all mobs

This is a major limitation for blu (as well as other mage jobs) and it is being sorely felt leveling from 75-80. I can understand the reasoning behind this (It makes sense to not be able to drain MP from a mob that doesn't have it). However, it is not fair to us to have our capacity diminished significantly on most mobs people fight (since mobs with MP are more of an exception then a rule). It also limits the effectiveness of weapons that do the same (Tizona is the one good thing SE has done in that the mob doesn't require MP).

Note: For those who may say other jobs have limitations on mobs they fight (example Drgs do more damage against mobs weak to piercing), this is not the same. At least those limitations restrict the damage and do not nullify any and all damage. This one spell loses all its usefulness against mobs w/o MP.

4. Either give us more set points or have a discount when setting spells for a trait

We all know we set some spells just for traits and not for the spell itself. SE should give us the option to set spells only for their trait at a much lower set point price. To compensate, these spells cannot be cast by the blu when they are designates as "trait only spells". If you want to set a spell for a trait and use it the normal set points required will apply.

Edit: Forgot one of my biggest pet peeves

5. Please...PLEASE SE, reduce the tp given to mobs by our multi hit spells.

QFT.

Also the song in the Rapakya Fenrir video is "Mißgestalt," which is the final battle theme from SaGa Frontier 2. He uses SaGa songs in a lot of his videos.

[Draylo]

Any idea why my macro isn't working for Plenilune Embrace?

[Nightfyre]

Mine works fine.

[Virtuosus]

Any idea why my macro isn't working for Plenilune Embrace?

Pretty easy to mispell it.

[Draylo]

Hm well it seemed that you can't have two blu spells in one macro... Skipped my mind I guess, just assumed it was like smn macros heh. I had magic fruit and P embrace in the same macro, so it won't work for BLU magic.

[Sho]

Think I've found the best skill up mobs. Popping your own T1 VNMs will take you directly to 80 cap skills. :D

[Kyte]

Just something random I noticed- Plenilune Embrace uses up Burst Affinity.

[Kegsay]

So do most enhancing blue spells, e.g. Zephyr Mantle. Magic Fruit doesn't because it doesn't give a buff.

[Aben]

Aurore and teal sets can be bought by cruor in Abyssea. Both have a few stand out pieces and a few 2nd places to other options (homam and morrigans). Cruor is rather easy to obtain too. My homam is sad, but my lack of morrigan's is rather happy.

http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Cruor_Prospector

[Kyte]

Aurore is so hideous lol