Blue Mage: Best thread ever

**Tashan** · 2011-04-22 10:08

Or just find a friend to heal you. She's very easy if Stona is around.

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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.

I'm not quite sure what you mean. Are you saying her spellcasts happen at certain intervals?

**Atoreis** · 2011-04-22 10:11

Originally Posted by Tashan

Or just find a friend to heal you. She's very easy if Stona is around.

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I'm not quite sure what you mean. Are you saying her spellcasts happen at certain intervals?

Its not about how to kill it because I would just take by dual box or friend I was just commenting this guy solo experience

**Tashan** · 2011-04-22 10:26

That was to Plow regarding asking a Ninja to team up, not regarding soloing.

**Atoreis** · 2011-04-22 12:19

Originally Posted by Tashan

I'm not quite sure what you mean. Are you saying her spellcasts happen at certain intervals?

I meant it casts in intervals. Lets say it cast every 20 sec. Do damage after it cast break and stop at about 15 sec after break. Then wait for the break and start damage again. This way it will only TP after break when you feeding it with tp.

**Tashan** · 2011-04-22 12:48

Ahhhh - Nice!

That's a pretty cool piece of advice, thank you! I'm pretty new to Evasion Soloing, and as I said, I even asked a friend who solos on Ninja for some advice (like balancing feeding as little tp as possible without doing TOO little damage).

I've never met anyone who solos on BLU on the Odin server so I'm just learning as I go along.

That advice was pretty good, much appreciated.

**Clash Perez** · 2011-04-22 14:53

[QUOTE=Tashan;4555762]

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For your TP set, Dusk Gloves are cheap and provide additional ATT. I'm sure you've realized these points, but the obvious upgrades are +2's, twilight belt, epona's ring. Loki's is a nice piece for melee in Abyssea when you are capped on ACC and have the gear to support 25% haste with it. Neck options aren't great, but Tiercel is good if you're not already capping haste. Fort. Torque is nice otherwise, and Orochi Nodowa(+1) is decent.

For Vorpal, Alcide's hands and feet are a decent mix of ACC/ATT. Heafoc mitts are an option, considering the glut of ACC in other slots. Elemental gorget/belt as well.

If your income can support, red curry buns make a pretty significant difference on anything with moderate DEF.

**Tashan** · 2011-04-23 03:20

Thanks Nyosan!

I just noticed there were some mistakes in that build. My apologies, I wrote it away from FFXI and was trying to do it from memory.

Vorpal Blade Build

AMMO: Tiphia Sting
HEAD: Anwig Salade (+4 STR, 10 ACC, 5ATK, 15 WS ACC)
NECK:Soil Gorget
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: Rutter Sabatons

I really can't wait til I finish my sword trials.

RE: Dusk Gloves - I know these are better. I use to love them, but I got tired of the Movement Speed down. -_-

RE: Upgrades - Yeah, all of those upgrades are on my To-Do list. Not sure how I want to approach Twilight Belt really, I don't want to waste a Brew on Shinryu but if I have to I suppose. I do have a signed Orochi Nodowa from Upbeat, but the reason I'm using Chiv Chain is for STP+1. Coupled with Hoard Ring, Rajas, Brutal and Job Trait it reduces the amount of hits needed to get to 100% by about 2-3 hits IIRC. That is only temporary though until I get better swords.

RE: Vorpal Blade - Alcide's are pretty nice. I like the Subtle Blow on them too. If I could cap Evasion on my Evasion build in Abyssea with less equipment (whatever that cap is) I would go straight for Subtle Blow.

My income doesn't allow for me to buy Curry Buns unfortunantly.

However, I'm always hesistant about popping food buffs in Abyssea because it seems, outside of soloing, I spend a lot less time meleeing than anything else.

So am I doing the right thing in gearing myself for ATK? I'm not crazy? o.o

I can't recall the last time I've seen ANYONE have an Assault Jerkin on their list xD.

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Here are my current, near-future upgrade plans:

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Also what do people think of Magus Charuqs vs Frisky Sabots vs Aurore Gaiters?

Charuqs equates to 9 Evasion; Frisky Sabots has 5 AGI and random flee effect for spacing; Gaiters has Haste for recasts.

**Aemora** · 2011-04-23 06:34

Apart from the obvious +1 here or there and Ocelot Trousers, I'm wondering if there are any additions I could make to this Evasion set for my BLU. I'm aware that I've looked purely at Evasion (because I bought it all in one day on the AH), and aren't aware if there is a Cap on Evasion, if I am over it or what... But this is my set.

http://www.ffxiah.com/item-sets/210257

Can anyone pick out problems with it or ways to improve? Weapons are Evasion sword and the Dark ring is MDT-6 and PDT-4.

**Tashan** · 2011-04-23 07:33

I've not heard of a reasonable Evasion cap, I'm certain there is. But because it would be dependant on your target monsters DEX/ACC AND the fact that most of the things we want to use an Evasion build for are Notorious Monsters, I've found it difficult to gauge.

Because of this, I've just been going with experience. Yesterday, I was lowmanning Briarieus and his friends and my build, along with Sand Emperor; Cloak and Dagger; and Siren Shadow (Roughly +120 EVA, +80ACC, +40 ATK) were more than enough for them. I wasn't really tanking Briarieus (member changed to NIN/DNC) but when I pull hate I was comfortable with all the misses he was making.

RE: Aemora - Your set looks very nice. What I would recommend is considering alternative options in respectable slots that provide gains outside of EVA. For Example: An Optical Hat provides the same 10 Evasion as a Wivre Mask, but its accuracy will improve your hit rate too. Or, if you can afford to give up your Selenian Cap and get an Anwig Salade, there are options such as Fast Cast +3 or Haste+3 on there.

My only other concern with BLU Eva is our poor AGI. The gap between our job (Tier 5) and NIN/DNC/THF is pretty large (Tier 2) and even though it's better than MNKs (Tier 6) the have significantly more EVA Skill than us. Poor Skill, Poor AGI yet here we are.

I try to add AGI to any slots I can afford to that doesn't sacrifice Evasion such as Rings.

**Darkmagi** · 2011-04-23 07:38

3 evasion atmas is a really good way to take years to kill something and really piss off your server.

**Tashan** · 2011-04-23 08:50

Originally Posted by Darkmagi

3 evasion atmas is a really good way to take years to kill something and really piss off your server.

Lol xD

Never happened to me though.

**Atoreis** · 2011-04-23 15:58

Oh man You focusing on this evasion too much. On Bria with my nin/war I am more then satisfied from my evasion with something around +50 eva (counting Yonin) and +15 agi (I think) in gear.

For Bria eva tanking on blu you should use something like this:

Main: Evasion Shamshir +2
Sub: Evasion Shamshir +2
Ammo: Goblin
Head: af3+2
neck: Evasion torque < Torero
Ear1: Suppa
Ear2: Brutal
body: af3+2
hands: Ocelot
Ring1: Heed
Ring2: Rajas
Back: Boxer
Waist: Twilight
Legs: Ocelot
Feet: Aurore

Atmas: GH, RR, MM and keep Auroral Drape up and you are 100% fine. With Almace I would switch MM for Dark Depths.

You can also switch for full evasion when casting ichi (switch back to haste while casting after mob swing).

That set with Auroral is more then enough for evasion tanking and much better for damage output and also buffed with AGI and subtle blow. 3 Evasion atmas you used are very poor choice and will cap you on evasion at Bria even with 0 evasion in gear but you will fight it forever.

**Tashan** · 2011-04-23 17:40

Now that's the type of information I've been looking for. Ideas based on knowledge received through activity beyond theory.

I'm glad I came to this place.

The only thing I have to ask with your suggestion is whether the difference between BLU/NIN has been taken into consideration. There is a 49 point (44.1 EVA) skill disadvantage between the 2 jobs without getting to job abilities and traits. That is at least an atmas worth difference.

Regardless, you've given me a starting point to play from, thank you.

**Atoreis** · 2011-04-24 05:28

Nin has no evasion trait so its just evasion skill difference and up to +30 evasion from Yonin that I already included.

**Draylo** · 2011-04-24 10:42

Thinking of trying the ACP final battle solo on BLU. Any problems and possible countermeasures? I see Seed of Judgment does around 700 (wiki overexaggeration), could see magic barrier being useful on that. Casts aga spells continuously which can't be stunned by head butt (another wiki quote, is this true even at 90?). Should be ok with a MDT set and shell2 from /rdm and phalanx. One possible problem is charmga, another wiki quote... but apparently has high regain when no hate on players, will this be so with dissv poison up? Last problem is the clone, I can just dispatch it with x2 delta thrust though. Maybe set another small spell so you can effectively two shot it without waiting on delta recast time and expending a lot of mp? Bludgeon + Delta thrust perhaps. It has around 25k HP, so around 1.5~2k per spell would be looking at around 12~15 spells not including melee TP and ws.

**Atoreis** · 2011-04-24 11:09

Like I said in other thread it might be more like 500-800 per spell but you will need to try that out.

**Draylo** · 2011-04-24 19:01

Thanks, I'll give it a shot.

**Khidir** · 2011-04-25 02:58

something of a gee-whiz kind of thing, you can set your spells then use a conflux then take the conflux to somewhere else immediately after and there's no cooldown

in uleg I did this setting grellow took conflux from 1- 7 but it didn't load then took 7 to 1 and it was up

in a different zone I set grellow at one conflux then took the conflux to another spot and they were up.

Funny thing is that I only tried this because I was lied to about this actually working when turns out it actually does lol!

**Tashan** · 2011-04-25 04:48

That's pretty awesome to know - Should try to remember when killing NMs by a flux.

**Yugl** · 2011-04-25 06:41

It works with zoning in general, so I'm guessing it has some sort of ties to that.

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