Blue Mage: Best thread ever

[huckster]

There a +6str mantle now.

Edit: For birds, if you are lv 78 blu you can solo them G colibris for exp pretty easy. Chain 4 doable but chain 5 is risky.

STR+6 mantle not usable by BLU.

[Villian]

My bad, was thinking of rng.

[huckster]

-I'm not sure exactly where it would fall without mathing it, but Lyft Scimitar (with full party) should probably make that list as well. I would also include Gnadbhod's Helm.

k - I'll add this

-Mini expansion options: The MKD helm, with +4 STR and +2% Critical Damage, and ASA pants, with +3% Critical damage, are both pretty great.

Yeah - I don't know what's better - Mirage Keffiyeh +1 (Blue Magic +5, VIT+4, DEF: 25) or Anwig Salade (STR+4, DEX+4, Increase Critical Hit Damage, DEF: 21)

-A Strigoi ring would be equivalent to a Vulcan's Ring.

will add

[Saithorx]

shouldn't (darks: shadow mantle) be moved back to the first column? Also, might as well throw maats cap on there.

[Nightfyre]

Anwig is better but I'd only do that if you have absolutely no other use for your hat; was about to suggest Maat's Cap myself. Drop Frightful Roar for something with useful stats, there's no need for Auto Refresh when Cannonballing. I'd use Kubira Beads over Fortitude Torque and probably over Justice if I wasn't getting a WSC from the additional 1 STR (beads have 5 defense and are useful elsewhere so it's not inv-1). Bibiki v JMC+2 depends on WSC; if the 3 STR bumps you up only 1 base damage (in addition to any fSTR bonus) and the VIT adds 2 I'd go for Bibiki.

[kenshyn]

Would u really use the +6 sword vs +4 str +4 vit sword for Cannon ball?

[Nightfyre]

Hurf, I thought it was 3 each. My bad.

[Sepukku]

Has anyone ever considered augmenting Rising Sun Lv68 Chakrams? And if so, what augments have you gotten? Not neccesarily for the Cannonball build discussed here, but for when one's out doing their casual thing, its nice to have a Chakram for pulling of course, but MP+ or STR+ or DEX+ or quite a few things would be improvements over Junior Musketeer Chakrams or Rogetsurin's lol1AGI.

They only cost 20-25k to make (Gold Ingot, Mercury, Tama Hagane) and at least on my server, a regular supply is on the AH because several BLUs have been buying 1 per day for a daily augment. I tried today out of boredom and got +13 HP -13MP +1 Dark. The -MP half made it NPC-worthy, but even a +13HP Chakram would be nice.

[Ethican]

I wouldn't put blast bomb or pinecone bomb. put plenilune embrace same amount of points and gives same str and can actually be used to a degree despite the mp cost sometimes having cure on hand can help a lot.

also elvaan rse satchet is 2 str ammo.

[Yugl]

Gnads will beat Relic Helm+1 during CA due to doubled modifiers.

[Nightfyre]

Generally matches/beats even without CA no? 4.5 D vs 4 D, albeit with 3 defense in Mirage +1's favor.

[kenshyn]

Wouldn't it depend if added skill from mirage puts you into another tier still no matter what I like my blu cap lol....

[Nightfyre]

I was including 2 base damage from a skill tier. If it doesn't give you that then it's a no-brainer.

[mightyg]

Has anyone ever considered augmenting Rising Sun Lv68 Chakrams? And if so, what augments have you gotten? Not neccesarily for the Cannonball build discussed here, but for when one's out doing their casual thing, its nice to have a Chakram for pulling of course, but MP+ or STR+ or DEX+ or quite a few things would be improvements over Junior Musketeer Chakrams or Rogetsurin's lol1AGI.

They only cost 20-25k to make (Gold Ingot, Mercury, Tama Hagane) and at least on my server, a regular supply is on the AH because several BLUs have been buying 1 per day for a daily augment. I tried today out of boredom and got +13 HP -13MP +1 Dark. The -MP half made it NPC-worthy, but even a +13HP Chakram would be nice.

I got a 13 hp 1 str rising sun from sky. Unfortunately haven't had any better luck than that, but i'm fairly confident if you put your mind to it, you could get a 2-3 str one, hell maybe even with some hp or mp.

[Yugl]

Generally matches/beats even without CA no? 4.5 D vs 4 D, albeit with 3 defense in Mirage +1's favor.

Yes, the doubled modifiers comment is there to emphasize the difference.

[Marcicus]

Anwig is better but I'd only do that if you have absolutely no other use for your hat; was about to suggest Maat's Cap myself. Drop Frightful Roar for something with useful stats, there's no need for Auto Refresh when Cannonballing. I'd use Kubira Beads over Fortitude Torque and probably over Justice if I wasn't getting a WSC from the additional 1 STR (beads have 5 defense and are useful elsewhere so it's not inv-1). Bibiki v JMC+2 depends on WSC; if the 3 STR bumps you up only 1 base damage (in addition to any fSTR bonus) and the VIT adds 2 I'd go for Bibiki.

Why would you drop Roar when 10% defense down will do more for your Cannonball damage than any other spell you can set in?

[Yugl]

Why would you drop Roar when 10% defense down will do more for your Cannonball damage than any other spell you can set in?

Chances are you're not landing it without Convergence anyways.

[Villian]

I can land it on Tiamat usually!

[Draylo]

Chances are you're not landing it without Convergence anyways.

Not really, a lot of things are susceptible to it and you can land it with a good/mediocre build. Most cases there is someone else doing that duty but it is very useful.

[Nightfyre]

I was going to say Angon personally, but we've a fairly large number of DRGs in my shell so my thinking has been influenced by that.