Blue Mage: Best thread ever

[lovehatehero]

Snaggletooth Peapuks are in The Boyahda Tree at F-9 on the third map- same coloring (and roughly the same size) as Seps- assuming these guys are the ones we get white wind from

They are at F-9 and yes they do use white wind, fighting them right now.

[Miroku_Asura]

They are at F-7 and yes they do use white wind, fighting them right now.

Bah my eyes suck ><

[Draylo]

Easy Thunderbolt target is Gudanna in behemoth dominion. Cost 300 tabs + 1k gil to pop + augmented item to pop it. Has extremely low amount of HP so keep that in mind.

[lovehatehero]

Anyone else having an issue with Sudden Lunge? Everytime I go to cast it I keep getting a command error in game and it wont cast. Tried through macro and in menu.

[Sho]

Anyone else having an issue with Sudden Lunge? Everytime I go to cast it I keep getting a command error in game and it wont cast. Tried through macro and in menu.

You're having an error because Spellcast is tied to the BST jugpet Sudden Lunge ability as well.

[VZX01]

So now that the affect of TP on crit chance for CDC has been tentatively worked out, can any math heads comment if the TP Bonus sword is now worthwhile to offhand for Almace (like the TP bonus dagger is for Twashtar)? I'm assuming not since you are losing the STR mod on spells and the ATT to melee damage from the Shamshir... but since when do people accept "eyeballing" stuff over math?

RR,GH, capped dDEX, and base crit at 100TP already put you @90% crit chance in Abyssea. Adding TP bonus sword will make the base crit sitting at 200TP (+25%), so in other words, there's no way you score a non-crit on your WS.

Outside? Can't say much about it. I'm not gonna work on complex model

[darkepyon]

Easy Thunderbolt target is Gudanna in behemoth dominion. Cost 300 tabs + 1k gil to pop + augmented item to pop it. Has extremely low amount of HP so keep that in mind.

Oh wow.... totally forgot about that dude. Thanks for pointing that out.

[jimbobsonofgod]

anybody confirm learning harden shell from tah turtles ?

[stamos]

Yeah, got from the mini turtles earlier.

[doctorugh]

Yeah just got Harden Shell from NQ turtles in abbysea.

[Neisan]

RR,GH, capped dDEX, and base crit at 100TP already put you @90% crit chance in Abyssea. Adding TP bonus sword will make the base crit sitting at 200TP (+25%), so in other words, there's no way you score a non-crit on your WS.

Outside? Can't say much about it. I'm not gonna work on complex model

+5% with rancor collar so TP bonus sword is 5% during WS only in that situation. Doesn't really seem worth it.

[dasva]

+5% with rancor collar so TP bonus sword is 5% during WS only in that situation. Doesn't really seem worth it.

Obviously you'd switch something around so you'd get the full bonus

[Neisan]

EDIT: even without the collar still at 90%, and the only other thing to switch out would be GH.
Swapping to A/O doesn't seem to help so I'm not sure what else I could do for it.

[Nightfyre]

EDIT: even without the collar still at 90%, and the only other thing to switch out would be GH.

Which is what you should be doing regardless given Heavy Strike, though you may want to give it a little acc gear vs Heroes NMs... sword skill's not capped yet but the acc penalty is noticeable even on Heroes EXP mobs. Might be capped hitrate now I'm 95 but at 92 I was definitely seeing uncapped hitrate.

[VZX01]

EDIT: even without the collar still at 90%, and the only other thing to switch out would be GH.
Swapping to A/O doesn't seem to help so I'm not sure what else I could do for it.

I've found to be liking GH better than apoc when wielding Almace. Since your crit dmg already boosted by RR, why not enhancing the crit rate further? Moreover, I like the occasional misses and more frequent parry from trash mobs by gaining +50 AGI.

Which is what you should be doing regardless given Heavy Strike, though you may want to give it a little acc gear vs Heroes NMs... sword skill's not capped yet but the acc penalty is noticeable even on Heroes EXP mobs. Might be capped hitrate now I'm 95 but at 92 I was definitely seeing uncapped hitrate.

I think he's replying on CDC, not Heavy Strike

[Ranth]

They are at F-9 and yes they do use white wind, fighting them right now.

This is correct, they're at F-9 on the map after you drop down from the usual steelshell camp. Be warned, these are IT at 91, so don't take it lightly. If you get aggro from a new IT crawler or the thunder elemental that can spawn nearby you can die pretty easily. However, these do have the same trait of allowing you to feed them 100% TP instantly via using a spell of the same element as the day, it's very handy.

[Neisan]

I knew it was bad but still can't believe they made it that bad...

[Nightfyre]

I think he's replying on CDC, not Heavy Strike

No shit? RR/GH/Apoc and RR/SS/Apoc are virtually identical for melee damage, the main reason to choose GH is for Benthic Typhoon or maybe an eva build if you're into that. If you're jacking up your critrate with a TP Bonus offhand, the logical choice is to swap to SS and it has the accessory benefit of increasing Heavy Strike damage. Even without TP Bonus though, SS now replaces GH unless you're seeking GH's accessory benefits (TP feed reduction, evasion, counter) because Heavy Strike exists, is useful (potentially even spammable) in Abyssea, and benefits greatly from SS.

[Prothescar]

Could see the extra crit rate from offhand TP bonus sword being pretty good since we're gonna want to be using Sanguine Scythe at this point.

[dasva]

Especially with us rocking higher def and lower lvl correct factor penalty