Blue Mage: Best thread ever

[Kaslo]

I didn't say that either. For group play, keeping DEF Down on mobs, Enervation/Sound Blast, Auroral Drape, Reaving Wind on mobs is more useful than most of what we can do, Head Butt spam (When not trying to proc/mob isn't immune), Delta Thrust for plague, etc.

Situations where being in range doesn't matter/TP feed doesn't matter/most jobs can solo/duo, by all means go nuts with swords and spells.

People play in groups?

[dasva]

I've definitely been in random pickup groups on blu where I was like 90% of the dmg and the only one that had any possibility of surviving mob hate lol

[Nightfyre]

I didn't say that either. For group play, keeping DEF Down on mobs, Enervation/Sound Blast, Auroral Drape, Reaving Wind on mobs is more useful than most of what we can do, Head Butt spam (When not trying to proc/mob isn't immune), Delta Thrust for plague, etc.

Situations where being in range doesn't matter/TP feed doesn't matter/most jobs can solo/duo, by all means go nuts with swords and spells.

And there's no way you can do any of that with a DD offhand.

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[shukudai]

And there's no way you can do any of that with a DD offhand.

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Sure, but you can do it even better without a DD offhand (Assuming you're main hand is Almace), and better still with another sword in place of Almace. The idea i'm getting at is that it's best to maximize the effeciency of whatever you're doing, and other magian swords serve a better purpose for the large majority of things you'd want a BLU for.

[Nightfyre]

Exactly. Using different weapons instead of optimizing gear that you can macro in and out is clearly the ideal solution in every case.

[Dooom]

The idea i'm getting at is that it's best to maximize the effeciency of whatever you're doing, and other magian swords serve a better purpose for the large majority of things you'd want a BLU for.

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[Draylo]

Sure, but you can do it even better without a DD offhand (Assuming you're main hand is Almace), and better still with another sword in place of Almace. The idea i'm getting at is that it's best to maximize the effeciency of whatever you're doing, and other magian swords serve a better purpose for the large majority of things you'd want a BLU for.

Just stop lol

[shukudai]

K, enjoy your shiny sword's that you think make you some kind of viable DD

[Atoreis]

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Now everything is clear finally!!!!

All the BLUs out there with those swords are thinking the same asShukudai ^^

[kenshyn]

Now everything is clear finally!!!!

All the BLUs out there with those swords are thinking the same asShukudai ^^

The sad thing is many are....... Just be lazy and offhand isador it needs some love lol.

[Nightfyre]

K, enjoy your shiny sword's that you think make you some kind of viable DD

Where did I say anything about the viability of DD BLU?

[Sylvrdragon]

K, enjoy your shiny sword's that you think make you some kind of viable DD

Ok, the serious answer now:

Real BLUs (and players in general) try to improve EVERY aspect of their jobs (Well, the aspects that provide a noticeable contribution- don't want people to start talking about Archery builds for RDM or some stupid shit like that).

[Yugl]

Spell sets for spells unaffected by BLU magic!

[macross]

Shrug, I use a Genbu's shield offhand.

[doctorugh]

Bah, who cares about swords. Just equip HQ staff and nuke away!

[Dragir]

Ok, the serious answer now: real BLUs (and players in general) try to improve EVERY aspect of their jobs (well, the aspects that provide a noticeable contribution -- don't want people to start talking about archery builds for RDM or some stupid shit like that).

[Slightly modified] and sigged, my good sir. Bears repeating. Infinite repeating.

[jimbobsonofgod]

I didn't say that either. For group play, keeping DEF Down on mobs, Enervation/Sound Blast, Auroral Drape, Reaving Wind on mobs is more useful than most of what we can do, Head Butt spam (When not trying to proc/mob isn't immune), Delta Thrust for plague,

Hold on a moment here.
All the spells you decided to list here are,(with the stun from headbutt/plague from delta I guess) indeed magic based lets look at total macc here(that I use).

2sturm 5morrigan head 2Lieutenant 2mavi earring 4moonshade
12body 5morrigan hand 3Omega 5Balrahn's 3Mirage 2Moblin 3Denali(working on +5 augment Mederi Slacks) 8 Mavi
Thats 56 macc in gear not including weapons.
Now if that doesn't land I could always swap in Tizona and isador but lets face it even after all that macc without weapons if you still cant get it to land, you'll fucking swap in a staff long before you change to a "Better magian weapon".

And if you're talking about abyssea, and you still cant land your shit, switch to macc atma or use a tonic, but in all honesty I haven't seen much that would require you to have all that much macc for blu shit in or outside abyssea that would require the use of a weapon that wasn't "DD related".

Head Butt spam (When not trying to proc/mob isn't immune), Delta Thrust for plague.
Situations where being in range doesn't matter/TP feed doesn't matter/most jobs can solo/duo, by all means go nuts with swords and spells.

I'd like to note that in order to cast these spells you pretty much gotta be in "range" anyways, might as well , swing fucking swords while you're are there.

[Byrthnoth]

Okay, quick question!

BLU can give itself Accuracy Bonus I, but can it equip more of those spells and give itself Accuracy Bonus II? How do higher tier traits work?

[dasva]

Not sure most of the traits don't stack like that. The ones that do generally require double the amount of setting

[Byrthnoth]

So, for instance, you'd have to set all four BLU spells to get Acc Bonus II?