Blue Mage: Best thread ever

[kenshyn]

Ok experts lets play guess what spells we get next these new ones added during this update hidden in the dats: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYzNO...layer_embedded

From http://wilddragonchase.blogspot.com/...-datamine.html

[Vriska]

Quad. Cont > Cannonball > BT > Sub-Zero Smash > Goblin Rush > Chant du Cygne

This is as far as you can go because the cap on skillchains is 5

I tried this! QC > Cannonball did nothing, then Benthic missed, and I got Light from SZS hahahaha.

[TheDirtyHobo]

Well, I didn't get CA numbers from regular spells, and I didn't turn off Spellcast, so I switched gear after every cast and didn't see SC damage >.<

Why would you turn spellcast off when you can just turn BMN on?

[ronin sparthos]

New BLU stuff

Sudden Lunge ignores shadows but damages the user. It does add stun though. Head Butt II?

Frozen Mist would easily be the best ice oriented nuke BLU has. Competition includes such gems as Frost Breath and Ice Break. The added terrorize would be icing and likely resisted on anything that matters anyway.

One of the BLU spells looks like the Dark Orb attack used by Gargouilles. That'd be a generic AOE dark damage spell, something also lacking in the nuke arsenal.

Heavy Strike looks like your typical physical spell.

Thunderbolt being AOE stun would simply be a Temporal Shift retread and BLU already has a potent thundaga spell in Charged Whisker. Heres to hoping it's a single target magical stun.

Water bomb would be an AOE water nuke and a step up on Maelstrom.

Harden Shell/Barrier Tusk are holdouts for Pro/Shell V. It'd be nice if one were Pro/Shell rolled into one and the other a Scherzo/Migawari type tool.

[TummieGaruda]

I tried this! QC > Cannonball did nothing, then Benthic missed, and I got Light from SZS hahahaha.

It might be because Quad cont as an opener has two elements and it took the the secondary element over the primary, so it could use using Scission on QC over the Gravitation Element.

This should work:

Disseverment > Cannonball > BT > Sub Zero > Goblin Rush > CdC

[kenshyn]

Sudden Lunge ignores shadows but damages the user. It does add stun though. Head Butt II?

Frozen Mist would easily be the best ice oriented nuke BLU has. Competition includes such gems as Frost Breath and Ice Break. The added terrorize would be icing and likely resisted on anything that matters anyway.

One of the BLU spells looks like the Dark Orb attack used by Gargouilles. That'd be a generic AOE dark damage spell, something also lacking in the nuke arsenal.

Heavy Strike looks like your typical physical spell.

Thunderbolt being AOE stun would simply be a Temporal Shift retread and BLU already has a potent thundaga spell in Charged Whisker. Heres to hoping it's a single target magical stun.

Water bomb would be an AOE water nuke and a step up on Maelstrom.

Harden Shell/Barrier Tusk are holdouts for Pro/Shell V. It'd be nice if one were Pro/Shell rolled into one and the other a Scherzo/Migawari type tool.

Man if any of these even come close to the potential of the last few updates its gonna be points hell figuring what to load. As if it's not hard choices now lol.

[Atoreis]

Yeah +20 BLU set points or gtfo

[Draylo]

Well we get 5 next lvl update

[dasva]

Wouldn't it be better to end in CA EFF quad or something?

Also as far as skillchaining goes can you go into lvl 2 from a lvl 3? Also same thing but with double lvl 3.

[Yugl]

BLU spells don't continue LV3 SCs and CA uses TP unless you use Sekkanoki, so Efflux the last spell and finish with CDC.

[dasva]

So after lvl 3 you it either ends or you continue with another lvl 3 with relic/empyrean ws?

[Yugl]

Exactly.

[dasva]

Hmmm might ram charge be better than SBZ? Can't find much info on it as far as dmg potential goes.

And so disliking how much of that skillchain relies on single hit... but can't really avoid it

[Sylvrdragon]

Hmmm might ram charge be better than SBZ? Can't find much info on it as far as dmg potential goes.

And so disliking how much of that skillchain relies on single hit... but can't really avoid it

My advice is to work around the spells you would have set anyway. Setting spells just for your 2hr doesn't seem very practical unless maybe you're doing a single zerg fight or popping restore chests/revitalizers constantly.

[dasva]

Oh yeah it was only for zerg anyways. I mean I wouldn'te set either frag spell normally and rarely set either fusion one either. Or disseverment for that matter.

Nice alternative for people that don't have the jobs to fight things normally and don't want to brew. Should be able to dish out some serious dmg like that lol

[kenshyn]

From alla:

Set it up in two macros with the new <wait ?> you can easily do those in one to two macros.

Thanks. I tried again using <wait> macros. After some trial and errors I was finally able to make the full chain.

Lore
Vertical Cleave (1383)
Sub-Zero (777)
Skillchain: Fragmentation (440)
Disseverment (792)
Skillchain: Distortion (560)
Goblin Rush: (1257)
Skillchain: Fusion (1187)
Bentic Typhoon (1230)
Skillchain: Gravitation (1451)
CA+Flux+Quad (3590)
Skillchain: Darkness (7632)

Total: ~20,299

Anyone else working on super chains???

[kenshyn]

Just thought I share someone else experience wit /thf lol I never really used vanity dive much guess I have been missing out so when mob is strong to piecing maybe just go RR/Omni and get that fat 50% dex mod going..

Why in the world would a low-man group want a BLU/THF? If the BLU isn't the tank or a mule there for procs, it shouldn't be there.

First of all, my english is really bad so excuse me for this @_@

Well with a low man group, so we say mnk whm blm blu for cover almost all procs, there aren't other dd expetion of mnk so no one interrupt self sc.
15k with recast of CA and efflux of course, with no efflux a average 11-12k a sc but you can spam cdc when those are down so is always fun and kill more faster the NM

sure if you are don't prepared you dieeeeeeeeeeeeeeee many many time but if you are a good blu, tank even with /thf until the tank take back hate.

here a pics with damage /thf, those on raja and rani with 2h, 10k+ set proc. Common atma APOC RR and with benthic GH, with vanity SS

Lose meele dot i know but i like play in this way so i'm ok with this :3

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/4946/powaw.png

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[Sylvrdragon]

From alla:



Anyone else working on super chains???

I'd say that guy's damage is pretty low-ball. As I posted earlier, I calculated over 15k from the Quad+Darkness alone not even counting the spells and SCs that came before it from only a 4-part. Maybe he just got unlucky on the Quad and missed a hit, but I think it isn't unreasonable to hit maybe 25-30k total.

[kenshyn]

Now we just need a working long light chain that we can cdc off of for double light and MB charged whisker lol

[Sylvrdragon]

Now we just need a working long light chain that we can cdc off of for double light and MB charged whisker lol

The problem with that is that you have to choose between either CA+Efflux OR double light. You can't use both in the chain without a wing. We need to math out which has the higher potential based on which chains we use and how many parts it includes and whether we would have to use set points for a particular chain.