Blue Mage: Best thread ever

[Rena]

Efflux findings~

TP boost is 100 TP. During CA, this stacks with Enchainment merits; Enchainment has no effect without. Stacks with TP from CA, but you can not exceed 300 TP (no reaching Azure Lore values). It also has a less apparent effect of a 50% boost to the base damage derived from blue magic skill (not the values from WSC or fSTR). Did not yet test if this works for first hit only, or all.

Further tests show that the damage increase works for all hits on multihit spells~ Turning out to be a very nice JA.

[Sabishii]

Yes.. Yes I am currently on Asura.



I think that BLUs TPing in AF might have something to do with it. All jobs have their bad players.. jobs like BLU and PUP just have a whole lot more of them.

I spent about 20 minutes badgering this guy about his logic. He refused to explain. I mean, if you don't like Blue Mages just tell me. It's not going to hurt my feelings because you don't like my choice of Job. All it will do is make me hate the terrible BLUs that much more. If you'd prefer a heavier hitting DD tell me that! That's cool. I can understand the whole "2h is AWESOME!" deal. But telling me that it's because "I don't want people dependent on MP." is like saying "I don't want RNGs because they use ammo."

(I'm on asura too) I did a search before on your name just for ha-has and saw someone with your name lol Yay for people on my server!

People won't understand BLU because of all the crappy ones. It just takes a hagun and merits to make a SAM awesome. Takes a lot of gear to get an awesome BLU. The thing with RNG vs BLU is that RNG just needs arrows that you can just buy to do damage, and if you're out of arrows, you got your melee weapons like axes. BLU can't afford to rest much because we need to melee unlike BLM, and sword damage isn't on par with axe damage, even if that isn't on par with 2h damage anymore. Some BLU just spam head butt, don't use MP, use shitty gear, etc. I had some troubles the last time I was in an abyssea party yesterday, but the party was shitty, they removed the bard from the party I was in, so I didn't have ballad any more. My spells weren't doing a ton of damage (but we were fighting stupid funguars which used some damaging attacks and status effects). Only got decent damage from CA vertical cleave at lvl 80. Should be doing more damage with goblin rush now though.

[orson]

Firstly need to come up with a new acronym for outside of the Blu thread. XD

The thing is though for QD can you really hit those giant numbers outside of Abyssea? Seems like if the spell is averaging like 900-1000 then it's not that big of deal since you still have to be in range. Blms still have the distinct advantage of being at range. I can't speak for all Blms either but honestly with convert + refresh II + ballad III + Atmas the biggest concern of a Blm now is pulling hate and the best spell rotation without running out of MP (if that's possible, lol.)

I really wouldn't be too worried that SE will nerf this or that Blms and other jobs will bitch. Everyone has been getting huge buffs lately. Just look at the base damage increase of weapons everyone is getting massive buffs.

[Rena]

Quadratic Continuum becomes QC, not QD or QB as I've seen. >_>;

Anyway, checking Studio Gobli, unless I'm misunderstanding it (if somebody with a better understanding of Japanese wants to check this, plese do), it seems they're reporting Death Scissors to still get a damage increase at 346 skill. Usually spells in the past capped ~15 levels above when you get them, which should have capped it around 276 skill... will maybe this this out myself later on when I can.

[Draylo]

Yeah I was wondering why QD haha.

[kenshyn]

All I can say is damn it feels good to be a gangsta I haven't been this happy with a update for Blu in a long long time whirl of rage is just the shit along with all our new toys all people keep saying in party tonight hunting nm in abyssea was damn.....

[Kegsay]

BLU Seal: Legs is obtained from "Wanted: Medical Supplies" in Abyssea-Mis.

[Dammerung]

Can definitely still put up the big numbers outside of abyssea. I don't have blu magic merits and I just hit 85 last night so not capped skill, so the potential is still higher.

Spoiler: show

http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/2...0911174505.png

[Rena]

They seem to have added secondary modifiers for Blazing Bound and Acrid Stream. 30% STR for the former (why STR...? And Firespit's still better, either way), and 30% MND for Acrid Stream (nice improvement, will provide a decent increase in damage with practically any nuking setup).

[Sho]

BLU Seal: Legs is obtained from "Wanted: Medical Supplies" in Abyssea-Mis.

Win BLU-post of the week, thanks man.

[Villian]

Anyone find out the mod for Benthic Typhoon yet? I don't see damage increase much in both my str/dex set and int/mnd set. The darkness SC is good, mix feeling about it being a frontal aoe.

[Tonko]

That quest is so terrible... please let them come from somewhere else.

Anyone find out the mod for Benthic Typhoon yet? I don't see damage increase much in both my str/dex set and int/mnd set. The darkness SC is good, mix feeling about it being a frontal aoe.

What are the mods for all the new spells? I don't read Japanese and Studio Gobli is not something I can navigate to find them.

[Rena]

Secondary modifiers for physical spells haven't been found yet... I may or may not do it myself once I finish up testing everything else I want to.

Speaking of which; Disseverment has gone up from 19 HP/tick at level 80 to 20 HP/tick (supposedly was 18 at 75, never tested myself, but 1 HP/5 levels sounds reasonable).

Benthic Typhoon's defense down is 10%. Made a mistake earlier with the magic defense down since it was a very quick test with, as it would seem, not enough attention paid to it; -10 MDB is the correct amount.

Auroral Drape's blind is -60 acc, very potent, but the duration leaves a lot to be desired.

[XingCai]

I personally didn't know if you close a SC with an AoE it hits all the mobs, so when I closed Darkness with B. Typhoon and hit 2 colis was surprised to see darkness hitting both.
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l3...Tai8970/sc.jpg

btw QC and BT are uber sex, even for a pretty shitty ass blu like myself

[darthmage]

for medical supplies quest where do u the supplies from? do i have to kill a mimic for supplies? get it from a chest that pops in party? or are there chest specifically for the quest?

[Nevex]

To be quite honest, with all the MP recovery methods available now to players, melees are the ones to be criticized for being limited by TP instead. Ballad 2+3, SMN roll, Refresh 2, Convert (if /RDM) and all the other stuff should be more than enough to have BLU casting non-stop on most common mobs.

[Villian]

I wonder why we say QD and not QC? >_>a I'm still playing around with typhoon still xD.

[Yugl]

To be quite honest, with all the MP recovery methods available now to players, melees are the ones to be criticized for being limited by TP instead. Ballad 2+3, SMN roll, Refresh 2, Convert (if /RDM) and all the other stuff should be more than enough to have BLU casting non-stop on most common mobs.

A BLU spamming spells enough to keep up with fully hasted melee probably wouldn't be sub RDM unless they like to sponge.

[Tsuko_Asura]

A BLU spamming spells enough to keep up with fully hasted melee probably wouldn't be sub RDM unless they like to sponge.

Not to sound like I'm defending BLU, but who cares about sponging most of the time anymore? If you're not sponging, you're probably not a very good DD. Waltzes can fix damage, they can't make terrible DD good.

[Masamune]

Efflux findings~

TP boost is 100 TP. During CA, this stacks with Enchainment merits; Enchainment has no effect without. Stacks with TP from CA, but you can not exceed 300 TP (no reaching Azure Lore values). It also has a less apparent effect of a 50% boost to the base damage derived from blue magic skill (not the values from WSC or fSTR). Did not yet test if this works for first hit only, or all.

Interesting test, can you develop how did you actually reach those conclusions ? please.