Blue Mage: Best thread ever

**Yugl** · 2011-02-01 13:06

It took him 60min to kill all three KI NMs excluding Briareus. If we're lenient and assume 10min fight for Briareus, that's 70min. If the helm distribution is 50% (Assuming 1-2 always), it's an average of 1.5 Helms per Briareus. Fifty divided by 1.5 is 33.333 (Lets make it 33 to be easy). It's 70min per fight and you need 33 fights, so you need 2,310min in Abyssea. If you divide by the number of stones (Max sojourn is 48min per stone), you're looking at 48.125 (49) stones. It's a miserable amount of time to spend on one half of a trial, but I suppose it's not that bad.

**Sylvrdragon** · 2011-02-01 13:16

Originally Posted by Kegsay

Eva tanking the new cool thing?

Successful Briareus Solo

I would prefer just making friends...

**Yugl** · 2011-02-01 13:27

Originally Posted by Sylvrdragon

I would prefer just making friends...

Actually, now that you mention that, it might be faster to just evasion tank it.

**Sho** · 2011-02-01 14:45

Would recommend BLU/MNK with Gnarled Horn and Roaring Laughter. So much countering to be had, no joke. >.>

**azagarth** · 2011-02-01 16:15

would have to worry about being 1 shot i think

**Necronus** · 2011-02-01 18:03

For anyone not watching the Twitter:

Next Major VU: Looking into making adjustments to the difficulty exploiting weakness in Abyssea using BLU's Blitzstrahl & 1000 Needles

**Darkmagi** · 2011-02-01 18:10

Wtf is wrong with procing Blitzstrahl?

**Tambor** · 2011-02-01 18:14

I've never had any problems, although the fact it can stun is annoying if you have other people trying to land their spells at the same time. I just usually cast it right at the beginning or wait a little while for people to try other spells. A better update would be "We've decided it's stupid to have NMs in abyssea be immune/highly resistant to certain elements making landing trigger spells virtually impossible on some days" -_-

**Darkmagi** · 2011-02-01 18:27

Yeah, I never have trouble procing blitz. The only thing that could use tweaking is allowing immune spells to proc. 1k needles isn't even that hard to land.

**Nariont** · 2011-02-01 20:02

i assume they're referring to blitz's stun apparently procing before the actual spell itself (from alla: http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.htm...05991296651205

What frustrates me as far as a grellow proc is Blitzstrahl from Blue Mages for lightning based nukes. It deals lightning damage and has an additional effect of stun, but should the stun effect go off then the spell can't proc grellow, because the stun effect occurs before the proc effect. The other night when my group was doing Emperador de Altepa, my friend who was on Blu had to remove all his gear and cast Blitzstrahl in a Terra's Staff in order to drop his magic accuracy low enough so that the stun effect wouldn't go off, and even then it wasn't always working. )

I was wondering if there was any truth to it or not, if they're indeed tweaking it, guess it has some relevance?

**Yugl** · 2011-02-01 20:19

I've never encountered that issue even when the spell does stun the mob.

**Nariont** · 2011-02-01 20:27

I've never actually had blitz land grellow, generally ends up mind blast or not blue magic at all, just figured if they need to tweak it, tha'd have to be why, why else would blitz need a change?

**ronin sparthos** · 2011-02-01 20:48

Originally Posted by Darkmagi

Yeah, I never have trouble procing blitz. The only thing that could use tweaking is allowing immune spells to proc. 1k needles isn't even that hard to land.

A select few mobs give 1k needles a definitive "fuck you" with regards to landing for seemingly no reason.

**Sho** · 2011-02-02 02:52

I've definitely procc'd with Blitz at least 5 times to date, all of them with additional stun landing (and lasting a good 5~15 seconds) whilst triggering green/yellow. Latency must suck for JP or something with it's add effect.

**Draylo** · 2011-02-02 07:07

Never had any problems with landing blitz or 1k needles(provided mob wasn't completely immune to the element). Dunno whats the fuss. Lower the damn mp cost on 1k needles and other magical spells though! and make them relevant !

**Odin'sLaw** · 2011-02-02 08:31

Originally Posted by Draylo

Never had any problems with landing blitz or 1k needles(provided mob wasn't completely immune to the element). Dunno whats the fuss. Lower the damn mp cost on 1k needles and other magical spells though! and make them relevant !

same and the stun has never stopped others from proging there spells while it was on only problem i've had is 1K Needles on Sobek and Mini byakko in UR

**Alkar** · 2011-02-02 11:29

The problem is that it stuns which prevents any grellow attempt for a few seconds. I can proc with it but it's still damn annoying to use. The other problem is that it's the only thunder spell they can use lol.
I guess they'll either add a new lower level thunder spell, remove the stun= no proc thing, add Charged Whisker as trigger instead or go the Seedspray way and use one of the physical spells.

**Yugl** · 2011-02-02 11:35

It's probably just cast time readjustment.

**Megatron** · 2011-02-02 13:44

wonder if its jsut AoA procing

**jimbobsonofgod** · 2011-02-02 14:27

besides yawn and sheep song the only other light magic spells are Actinic Burst,magic hammer,Light of Penance and blank gaze and i think any of these are a find candidate for light proc but on the other hand the only other thunder magic spells are charge whisker and temporal shift... and i cant think of any physical spells that even sound thunder based in nature.

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