Blue Mage: Best thread ever

[Khidir]

Eh it only happens occasionally, I try to buff up with ice spikes etc but I get really lazy after a while of farming on blu.... Normally just SS + occulation + cocoon and that's it lol.

it's very VERY rare but yes it can happen and yes it's very annoying as things dont look pretty afterwards lol

as for the proc spells get rid of maelstrom and leave regurg the one that actually has use besides a proc spell!

as far as doing the vnm for almace trials whats the best way to solo them?

I have blu and rdm at 90 but blu is the better geared @_@'; I know blu can solo pretty well like rdm just never tried

[Kaslo]

it's very VERY rare but yes it can happen and yes it's very annoying as things dont look pretty afterwards lol

as for the proc spells get rid of maelstrom and leave regurg the one that actually has use besides a proc spell!

as far as doing the vnm for almace trials whats the best way to solo them?

I have blu and rdm at 90 but blu is the better geared @_@'; I know blu can solo pretty well like rdm just never tried

The fish is actually kiteable with wlegs when he's in 2hr mode. Other than his 2hr and WS spam he's a panzy. Scorp could maybe solo with headbutt but rough. Just get a WHM friend and they should all be cake to duo.

[Clash Perez]

Alternately, you can use pinning spots to solo them with Diss and magical DD spells. A Google search should lead you to the appropriate information.

[Kegsay]

I soloed Jyeshtha (scorp) just straight tanking as /NIN with evasion gear + Drape. Was rough at times since you can get unlucky with insta-cast Break when your pants are down. Usually that would result in a death and you'd have to try again. It's definitely possible though and isn't too terrible.

Also soloed Capriconus (pugil) straight tanking (eva gear) but running away as soon as it Mighty Strikes (every 20% HP). You do not need +12% to outrun Recoil Dive. Simply run away until strikes wears off then go back in. All in all, this one is much easier than Jyeshtha.

I did not solo Tammuz, duo/trioed it, but it can be done with some luck on petrificative breath. Tammuz has a lot more HP though and you might struggle to get it down before things become a bit too rough. Would advise getting a WHM or /WHM or SCH at this point. Anything/WHM would do the trick.

[Draylo]

Yeah I find eva gear to be nice on old content, just recently solo'd Temenos Western tower with it (one with the enhanced mobs) and it was very nice for dealing with horde of mobs or putting ichi up.

[Draylo]

Sent this PM to someone, think it was Nightfyre, but no reply

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Btw just an update. We talked earlier about eva build in that limbus zone with BLU. I just solo'd it and I am very impressed w/the results.

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Obviously a pretty small sample size but it works very nicely from what I eyeballed. Was very helpful in dealing w/mandies and links(especially final floor) and getting ichi up. Great majority of the mobs (basically everything except one slime I fought) didn't even get a TP move off... lol. They all died before using anything, opened most fights with delta thrust. I only used auroral drape on mandies and the birds. The ss for the birds is my initial pull, didn't use drape before I slept them but I used afterwards. Pretty helpful tbh, I just put away my pdt and mdt sets in order to fit it into my inventory. I farmed for time on tigers, pugil and lizzies.

This was my eva set in addition to evasion bonus trait and 4 evasion merits:

http://www.ffxiah.com/item-sets/208603

Most likely a bit overkill but it worked out really well. Mirke is augmented with fast cast +5 and eva +10. Also the +10 tic refresh really helped out, if you don't have much auto refresh items you might wanna get the subligar//af3 body/serp at least since those are easiest assuming you haven't beaten wotg (or used diff augment)

Any thoughts on the use of this set on other NMs? Is it overkill? The shamshir is a STR one, I could see the eva/agi one being nice for freeing some haste options.

[Yugl]

Torero Torque? Not sure about the difference between EVAs and EVAs Skill. I know there has been tests done on this subject though.

[jimbobsonofgod]

Could do :
goblin cracker instead of thunder sachet
antares/scorp +1 if you dont want to waste the augment
Magus Charuqs +1 over Areion's Gamashes
Master Caster's Mitts(where applicable)/Patrician's Cuffs over Ocelot
and of course 2 agil shamshirs but I'm betting somewhere along there itll be overkill

[Draylo]

Yeah that's what I mean. I am not sure what I would need to hit that cap on BLU at 90 where I would start adding more haste gear in.. Most of that gear was just thrown in from what my THF uses (use AF3 feet so had to use those that I normally have for spells lol).

[Khidir]

best offhand for blu for a dot perspective

Still OAT > DA +10 for antea right?

[Atoreis]

best offhand for blu for a dot perspective

Still OAT > DA +10 for antea right?

Not for Almace.

[Khidir]

best offhand for almace for a dot perspective?

[Atoreis]

best offhand for almace for a dot perspective?

Da+10

[Khidir]

without worry about stacking too much DA due to brutal, job trait, twilight belt and such?



edit: granted you can take it out, i just dont know what % that DA has a diminishing point of return post 25% or so?

[Mercilessturtle]

It has diminishing returns period, there is no particular point where it gets worse. But the 10% double attack applies to both hands, OAT doesn't. The more you are swinging your high damage, aftermath having sword the better.

[Tashan]

Hi Everyone,

My name is Tashan. I'm from the Odin server and Blue Mage is my only job.

After leaving the game for 1-2 years I started playing casually again at the start of 2011.

I'm trying to dramatically improve my builds but facing a sort of "writers block". Can anyone help?

Great appreciation to anyone who takes the time to reply:

Spoiler: show

TP Build

AMMO: Tiphia Sting
HEAD: Mavi Kavuk +1
NECK: Chiv Chain
EAR1: Suppanomimi
EAR2: Brutal Earring
BODY: Mavi Mintan +1
HANDS: Homam M
RING1: Hoard Ring
RING2: Rajas Ring
BACK: Atheling Mantle
WAIST: Swift Belt
LEGS: Mavi Tayt +2
FEET: Aurore Gambieras

RE: ACC - According to FFXI Calculator, vs a LV95 Monster with 390 Evasion my build is capped in Accuracy with Mavi Kavuk +1, Suppanomimi and Razed Ruins atma.
RE: Hoard Ring - Coupled with Rajas, Brutal, Chiv Chain, and Store TP trait to reduce my hit count for 100 TP by ~3 hits, depending on weapon(s) equipped.

Vorpal Blade Build

AMMO: Olibanum Sachet
HEAD: Anwig Salade (+4 STR, 10 ACC, 10 ATK, 15 WS ACC)
NECK: Spike Necklace
EAR1: Suppanomimi
EAR2: Brutal Earring
BODY: Assault Jerkin
HANDS: Denali Wristbands
RING1: Spiral Ring
RING2: Rajas Ring
BACK: Atheling Mantle
WAIST: Swordbelt +1 (Augmented with 1 STR)
LEGS: Tumbler Trunks
FEET: Mederi Brogues (6 STR)

RE: ATK - IIRC the best approach for Vorpal Blade is cap out ATK, then follow out with either as much STR (probably best being an Elvaan) or go with as much DEX for Critical Hit. However, I don't know how to cap out my ATK. A friend said if I can hit around 600 I'm good, so sure why not. I'm at 517 with this build without buffs or spells set.

Multi-Hit Build

AMMO: Mavi Tathlum
HEAD: Anwig Salade (+4 STR, 10 ATK, 10 ACC, 10 WS ACC)
NECK: Spike Necklace
EAR1: Suppanomimi
EAR2: Minuet Earring
BODY: Magus Jubbah +1
HANDS: Pallas's Bracelets
RING1: Spiral Ring
RING2: Rajas Ring
BACK: Potentia Cape
WAIST: Warwolf Belt
LEGS: Mavi Tayt +2
Feet: Mederi Brogues (6 STR)

INT/MND Respectively

AMMO: Phantom Tathlum / Bibiki Seashell (Purely to increase Magic Fruit)
HEAD: Teal Chapeau
NECK: Torque (Augmented with +2 INT and MND)
EAR1: Moldavite Earring
EAR2: Nothing
BODY: Teal Saio
HANDS: Mavi Bazubands +1
RING1: Sprial Ring/Solemn Ring
RING2: Hale Ring
BACK: Potentia Cape/Sunbeam Cape
WAIST: Penitent's Rope
LEGS: Teal Slops / Jet Seraweels
FEET: Mavi Bismark +1 / Teal Pigaches

RE: MND - MND Build also doubles as Curing and Stoneskin builds. However, I do intend to get more dedicated equipment such as Cure Potency equipment.

Evasion Build

AMMO: Fenrir's Stone
HEAD: Optical Hat
NECK: Spirit Torque
EAR1: Velocity Earring
EAR2: Platinum Earring
BODY: Mirke Wardecors (EVA+10 Dual-Wield+3)
HANDS: Denali Wristbands
RING1: Solemn Ring
RING2: A second AGI+5 or more ring soon as I get in-game
BACK: Boxer's Mantle
WAIST: Swift Belt (Need something to replace this soon)
LEGS: Ocelot Trousers (The dumbest looking piece of gear in the game, after subligars)
FEET: Magus Charuqs / Frisky Sabots (Undecided between these 2 with which to use.)

I love my evasion build. It works very well even in Abyssea with 2-3 Atmas. I'm just trying to close the gap between my builds and other jobs such as DNC, THF, NIN and MNK to properly gauge what I can and cannot do. Our Evasion Skill isn't great being a C-, even PLD has a higher rating. Our AGI isn't great either and it's even worse that I'm an Elvaan.

I've heard wonderful thing about Almace builds. However, while I'm working on them I'm not sure I'll be able to get 50 Briarieus (sp?) Helms. I'm trying though and currently am working on Trial 1200.

Sobek and Apadamek aren't so bad since I can offer something from their drops to people that help kill them multiple times.

I am also working on STR, AGI, MND, VIT shamshirs for respective builds. My current best DoT weapons are a Augmented DMG: 44+8 Firmament and Khanda OAT2-4 off hand (which I made for soloing purposes).

Thanks again to everyone who helps, Much appreciated.

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as far as doing the vnm for almace trials whats the best way to solo them?

I have blu and rdm at 90 but blu is the better geared @_@'; I know blu can solo pretty well like rdm just never tried

Here are my experiences:

vs Jyeshtha

God I am trying so hard to solo this guy.

I HAVE HIM. Really. But just keeps getting lucky with Instant-Cast Break on me.

Current setup:

Evasion Build - 333 Evasion Skill - +67 Evasion from Equipment. 70+10 AGI /NIN.

Notable Spells:

Head Butt, Delta Thrust, Actnic Burst, MP Drainkiss, Animated Wail, Battery Charge, Sandspray, Filamented Hold, Utsu: NI/Ichi.

Notable Traits:

Evasion Bonus, Fast Cast, Subtle Blow, Auto Regen, Auto Refresh, Assimilation 5/5

Strategy: Build TP in advance to solo Liquefactation with Savage Blade -> Delta Thrust. Otherwise, I do not engage the mob in order to not feed TP.

Rotate Head Butt with Delta Thrust, Actnic Burst, and MP Drainkiss while keeping up buffs and debuffs. Try to never be caught with your shadows down. With this setup, I'm certain I've near enough capped Evasion against him, however it won't do much if you get hit by Break.

Break is very painful, has lasted up to 1 min and 45 seconds on me. I can survive his normal attacks during this, but it's really not ideal and when he does it, it's VERY hard (300-500 Attacks).

Otherwise, this guy CAN be solo'd by a Blue Mage. I'll just let you know when I've done it succesfully more than 3 times in a row.

The same setup with a healer makes it very easy.

/sigh.

After 2 days of training, practice, studying from a Ninja soloist and deaths I finally have her beat.

After coming as close as 2% then being hit by Break and losing I found myself wishing I could just kill her faster when she gets to low HP.

But I couldn't find room in my setup for another DD spell.

Until I took out Auto-Regen for Quad Cont. and Regeneration.

It didn't make the fight dramatically easier, as you've got to be a bit more careful with MP management. But it was definently what the doctor ordered.

Much Respect Jyeshtha! 8-)

Next target: Capricornus Solo!

Looks like someones already done it as EVA BLU already.

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vs Farruca Fly

As this one has been bothering me too I thought I'd fight it. It killed me twice earlier.

Anyway, using the same setup for Jyeshtha, the fight is a little easier as it spends more time spellcasting (all of which can be stunned with Head Butt, or interrupted with a DD spell like Delta Thrust) than using TP moves if you're careful. It's immune to Disease though.

Biggest thing to worry about, and what has killed me, is En-Para during Perfect Dodge. It's a gamebreaker and leaves you open to -agas and Tier IV nukes spells.

Otherwise, go with a good Evasion Build, keep up the stun and damage, and reduce the TP gain and it's good.

[Atoreis]

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Hi Everyone,

My name is Tashan. I'm from the Odin server and Blue Mage is my only job.

After leaving the game for 1-2 years I started playing casually again at the start of 2011.

I'm trying to dramatically improve my builds but facing a sort of "writers block". Can anyone help?

Great appreciation to anyone who takes the time to reply:

Spoiler: show

TP Build

AMMO: Tiphia Sting
HEAD: Mavi Kavuk +1
NECK: Chiv Chain
EAR1: Suppanomimi
EAR2: Brutal Earring
BODY: Mavi Mintan +1
HANDS: Homam M
RING1: Hoard Ring
RING2: Rajas Ring
BACK: Atheling Mantle
WAIST: Swift Belt
LEGS: Mavi Tayt +2
FEET: Aurore Gambieras

RE: ACC - According to FFXI Calculator, vs a LV95 Monster with 390 Evasion my build is capped in Accuracy with Mavi Kavuk +1, Suppanomimi and Razed Ruins atma.
RE: Hoard Ring - Coupled with Rajas, Brutal, Chiv Chain, and Store TP trait to reduce my hit count for 100 TP by ~3 hits, depending on weapon(s) equipped.

Vorpal Blade Build

AMMO: Olibanum Sachet
HEAD: Anwig Salade (+4 STR, 10 ACC, 10 ATK, 15 WS ACC)
NECK: Spike Necklace
EAR1: Suppanomimi
EAR2: Brutal Earring
BODY: Assault Jerkin
HANDS: Denali Wristbands
RING1: Spiral Ring
RING2: Rajas Ring
BACK: Atheling Mantle
WAIST: Swordbelt +1 (Augmented with 1 STR)
LEGS: Tumbler Trunks
FEET: Mederi Brogues (6 STR)

RE: ATK - IIRC the best approach for Vorpal Blade is cap out ATK, then follow out with either as much STR (probably best being an Elvaan) or go with as much DEX for Critical Hit. However, I don't know how to cap out my ATK. A friend said if I can hit around 600 I'm good, so sure why not. I'm at 517 with this build without buffs or spells set.

Multi-Hit Build

AMMO: Mavi Tathlum
HEAD: Anwig Salade (+4 STR, 10 ATK, 10 ACC, 10 WS ACC)
NECK: Spike Necklace
EAR1: Suppanomimi
EAR2: Minuet Earring
BODY: Magus Jubbah +1
HANDS: Pallas's Bracelets
RING1: Spiral Ring
RING2: Rajas Ring
BACK: Potentia Cape
WAIST: Warwolf Belt
LEGS: Mavi Tayt +2
Feet: Mederi Brogues (6 STR)

INT/MND Respectively

AMMO: Phantom Tathlum / Bibiki Seashell (Purely to increase Magic Fruit)
HEAD: Teal Chapeau
NECK: Torque (Augmented with +2 INT and MND)
EAR1: Moldavite Earring
EAR2: Nothing
BODY: Teal Saio
HANDS: Mavi Bazubands +1
RING1: Sprial Ring/Solemn Ring
RING2: Hale Ring
BACK: Potentia Cape/Sunbeam Cape
WAIST: Penitent's Rope
LEGS: Teal Slops / Jet Seraweels
FEET: Mavi Bismark +1 / Teal Pigaches

RE: MND - MND Build also doubles as Curing and Stoneskin builds. However, I do intend to get more dedicated equipment such as Cure Potency equipment.

Evasion Build

AMMO: Fenrir's Stone
HEAD: Optical Hat
NECK: Spirit Torque
EAR1: Velocity Earring
EAR2: Platinum Earring
BODY: Mirke Wardecors (EVA+10 Dual-Wield+3)
HANDS: Denali Wristbands
RING1: Solemn Ring
RING2: A second AGI+5 or more ring soon as I get in-game
BACK: Boxer's Mantle
WAIST: Swift Belt (Need something to replace this soon)
LEGS: Ocelot Trousers (The dumbest looking piece of gear in the game, after subligars)
FEET: Magus Charuqs / Frisky Sabots (Undecided between these 2 with which to use.)

I love my evasion build. It works very well even in Abyssea with 2-3 Atmas. I'm just trying to close the gap between my builds and other jobs such as DNC, THF, NIN and MNK to properly gauge what I can and cannot do. Our Evasion Skill isn't great being a C-, even PLD has a higher rating. Our AGI isn't great either and it's even worse that I'm an Elvaan.

I've heard wonderful thing about Almace builds. However, while I'm working on them I'm not sure I'll be able to get 50 Briarieus (sp?) Helms. I'm trying though and currently am working on Trial 1200.

Sobek and Apadamek aren't so bad since I can offer something from their drops to people that help kill them multiple times.

I am also working on STR, AGI, MND, VIT shamshirs for respective builds. My current best DoT weapons are a Augmented DMG: 44+8 Firmament and Khanda OAT2-4 off hand (which I made for soloing purposes).

Thanks again to everyone who helps, Much appreciated.

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Here are my experiences:

I am wondering how the f you got caught by break with close to cap evasion and head butt? Idk why you didn't use disseverment? You could probably not even engage and just put Diss on it and spam delta while evasion tanking it. Once again I have no idea why you had problem with dodging break with it missing so much.

[Tashan]

I am wondering how the f you got caught by break with close to cap evasion and head butt? Idk why you didn't use disseverment? You could probably not even engage and just put Diss on it and spam delta while evasion tanking it. Once again I have no idea why you had problem with dodging break with it missing so much.

Jyestha's break casting time is very fast. She would often follow a TP move such as Wild Rage with a fast-cast break. Honestly, she got lucky a lot and that's what went against me.

[Plow]

My experiences with Jyeshtha have been pretty much the same, it's mostly about luck.

You may be able to find a Ninja that needs it, though, but you'll have to look. You won't see them shouting or anything because with luck a good nin could solo it at 75.

[Atoreis]

Jyestha's break casting time is very fast. She would often follow a TP move such as Wild Rage with a fast-cast break. Honestly, she got lucky a lot and that's what went against me.

If you solo and evasion tanking you can easily make it to not doing TP+cast combo. It casts every x time so you just dont feed it with tp when you know it's about to cast.