Blue Mage: Best thread ever

[Prothescar]

The following new learnable spells will be added for blue mages:

Quadrastrike
Delivers a fourfold attack. Chance of critical hit varies with TP.

Vapor Spray
Deals water breath damage to enemies within a fan-shaped area originating from the caster. Additional effect: Poison.

Thunder Breath
Deals thunder breath damage to enemies within a fan-shaped area originating from the caster.

Orcish Counterstance
Increases the caster's chance of countering.

Amorphic Spikes
Delivers a fivefold attack. Damage varies with TP.

Wind Breath
Deals wind breath damage to enemies within a fan-shaped area originating from the caster.

Barbed Crescent
Damage varies with TP. Additional effect: Accuracy Down.

Spells castable only while under the effect of Unbridled Learning:

Absolute Terror
Freezes target in fear.

Gates of Hades
Deals fire damage to enemies within area of effect. Additional effect: Burn.

Tourbillion
Delivers an area attack. Additional effect duration varies with TP. Additional effect: Weakens defense.

Pyric Bulwark
Resists physical damage.

Bilgestorm
Delivers an area attack. Additional effect duration varies with TP. Additional effect: Lowers attack, defense, and accuracy.

Bloodrake
Delivers a threefold attack. Damage varies with TP. Additional effect: HP Drain.





Not going to lie I am incredibly moist. Going to test them out asap.

[Atoreis]

The following new learnable spells will be added for blue mages:

Quadrastrike
Delivers a fourfold attack. Chance of critical hit varies with TP.

Vapor Spray
Deals water breath damage to enemies within a fan-shaped area originating from the caster. Additional effect: Poison.

Thunder Breath
Deals thunder breath damage to enemies within a fan-shaped area originating from the caster.

Orcish Counterstance
Increases the caster's chance of countering.

Amorphic Spikes
Delivers a fivefold attack. Damage varies with TP.

Wind Breath
Deals wind breath damage to enemies within a fan-shaped area originating from the caster.

Barbed Crescent
Damage varies with TP. Additional effect: Accuracy Down.

Spells castable only while under the effect of Unbridled Learning:

Absolute Terror
Freezes target in fear.

Gates of Hades
Deals fire damage to enemies within area of effect. Additional effect: Burn.

Tourbillion
Delivers an area attack. Additional effect duration varies with TP. Additional effect: Weakens defense.

Pyric Bulwark
Resists physical damage.

Bilgestorm
Delivers an area attack. Additional effect duration varies with TP. Additional effect: Lowers attack, defense, and accuracy.

Bloodrake
Delivers a threefold attack. Damage varies with TP. Additional effect: HP Drain.





Not going to lie I am incredibly moist. Going to test them out asap.

So hot ....

Incommming HP build for thunder breath so I can be 120/80 with blu equip XD
Quadrastrike have in theory super chance to be best CA physical spell
Orcish Counterstance ... I was joking with my friend that BLU should get it... Might be really hot when paired with occultation for tanking >.>
Amorphic Spikes - 2 multihit physical spells in one update >.> (not counting Unbridled Learning) I hope its not another Asuran Claws
Barbed Crescent I have a feeling that will have very high fTP but we will see

Cant wait for your testing Pro :D

[Kyte]

Some birds are going to get raped.

[dasva]

Oh my another crit spell and multihit at that. Wonder if other things like Ddex, crit gear and other crit buffs will effect it.

[Atoreis]

Oh my another crit spell and multihit at that. Wonder if other things like Ddex, crit gear and other crit buffs will effect it.

Go test sickle slash, it should be the same mechanic. Probably wont be able to crit at all w/o CA. I'm not sure if I am correct here so dont call be dumb :/

[Kegsay]

I for one wasn't sure on the mob families, so for convenience:

EDIT: They listed these in the same order they appear in the dats, sooo... included that info.

Quadrastrike (Kindred aka Demons in CoP/WotG zones)
BLU96 MP Cost: 98 Casting Time: 0.5 Recast Delay: 42.5
Delivers a fourfold attack. Chance of critical hit varies with TP.

Vapor Spray (Phuabo)
BLU96 MP Cost: 172 Casting Time: 3.0 Recast Delay: 19.0
Deals water breath damage to enemies within a fan-shaped area originating from the caster. Additional effect: Poison.

Thunder Breath (Wyvern)
BLU97 MP Cost: 193 Casting Time: 7.0 Recast Delay: 56.0
Deals thunder breath damage to enemies within a fan-shaped area originating from the caster.

Orcish Counterstance (WotG Orcs)
BLU98 MP Cost: 18 Casting Time: 4.0 Recast Delay: 11.0
Increases the caster's chance of countering.

Amorphic Spikes (Flan)
BLU98 MP Cost: 79 Casting Time: 0.5 Recast Delay: 58.25
Delivers a fivefold attack. Damage varies with TP.

Wind Breath (Dragon - same as Body Slam ones)
BLU99 MP Cost: 26 Casting Time: 1.0 Recast Delay: 29.5
Deals wind breath damage to enemies within a fan-shaped area originating from the caster.

Barbed Crescent (Fomor)
BLU99 MP Cost: 52 Casting Time: 0.5 Recast Delay: 22.0
Damage varies with TP. Additional effect: Accuracy Down.

Spells castable only while under the effect of Unbridled Learning:

Absolute Terror (Wyrm) - Fafnir/Nidhogg, Wyrm(KS99), Tiamat/Vrtra/Jorm/Ouryu, Cynoprosopi(Limbus), Dragua/Cuelebre/Smok(Abyssea),
BLU96 MP Cost: 29 Casting Time: 0.5 Recast Delay: 30.0
Freezes target in fear.

Gates of Hades (Cerberus) - Cerberus, Sarameya(ZNM), Amarok/Orthus(Abyssea), Black Shuck(Assault)
BLU97 MP Cost: 156 Casting Time: 3.5 Recast Delay: 30.0
Deals fire damage to enemies within area of effect. Additional effect: Burn.

Tourbillion (Khimaira) - Khimaira, Tyger (ZNM) , Khimaira 14X (Assault)
BLU97 MP Cost: 108 Casting Time: 1.0 Recast Delay: 30.0
Delivers an area attack. Additional effect duration varies with TP. Additional effect: Weakens defense.

Pyric Bulwark (Hydra) - Hydra, Tinnin (ZNM), Orochi (Assault), Hydra(Nyzul), Alfard(Abyssea)
BLU98 MP Cost: 50 Casting Time: 1.5 Recast Delay: 30.0
Resists physical damage.

Bilgestorm (Dvergr) - Durinn or Dvallin really.
BLU99 MP Cost: 122 Casting Time: 1.0 Recast Delay: 30.0
Delivers an area attack. Additional effect duration varies with TP. Additional effect: Lowers attack, defense, and accuracy.

Bloodrake (Vampyr) - Lord Ruthven(VNM), Nosferatu, Oupire, Lord Varney(Abyssea), Castle Zvahzl(S)
BLU99 MP Cost: 99 Casting Time: 0.5 Recast Delay: 30.0
Delivers a threefold attack. Damage varies with TP. Additional effect: HP Drain.

[Prothescar]

Khimaira in Abyssea do not use Tourbillion :\ it's gonna be annoying to learn unless you're First Lt.

Also there's an NQ vampyr in Castle Zvhal

[Atoreis]

Khimaira in Abyssea do not use Tourbillion :\ it's gonna be annoying to learn unless you're First Lt.

Also there's an NQ vampyr in Castle Zvhal

I tho there was a lot of regular vampyrs in some ground of valor zone.

[Draylo]

Yes there are in bostnaiuesaerfasdf obliteete, yeah the zone under sandy castle. I wish they would just change the vapor spray into Aqua breath :/ I'm a sucker for iconic spells although I'm really happy about these. Pyric bulwark resisting physical dmg? Also, glad I decided to randomly rebuild my breath set lol.

[Rocl]

Bostanieux Oubliette or w/e had Vampyrs added yeah.

Does Khimaira 13 or w/e the one you fight with Shantotto use Tourbillion? Also Nyzul Isle Khimaira exists, the Einherjar T3 boss, and the Besieged Khimaira lols

The Bob Barker Assault Dvergr should use Bilgestorm too, can't imagine you could learn it from the Ein T3 Dvergr boss since he Warps and uh you could always go to Dynamis-Tav or Xarc for Quadrastrike too!! And do Naul in Abyssea not use Absolute Terror?

is Thunder Breath one of those breaths that all Wyverns use and not one of those only NMs use?
or apparently i am reading its a normal TP move for green ones

[Prothescar]

Yes there are in bostnaiuesaerfasdf obliteete, yeah the zone under sandy castle. I wish they would just change the vapor spray into Aqua breath :/ I'm a sucker for iconic spells although I'm really happy about these. Pyric bulwark resisting physical dmg? Also, glad I decided to randomly rebuild my breath set lol.

Yeah built my White Wind set in hopes of also being able to use it on future breaths. Glad it wasn't a huge waste of time. Wondering if Pyric is a full on immunity to physical damage or if it's just some sort of Sentinel effect. It's sort of cheap considering...

[dasva]

I'm betting just a small amount of pdt spell. But hopefully something that stacks with pdt and maybe just maybe also goes past cap. Then again that's the same help text as phalanx...

[Foldypaws]

Given that it's on a 5 minute timer, hopefully it's at least a Sentinel effect.

[dasva]

Lol just looked at the official notes. I love how at the end they say the effects of all blu spells are provisional...

[transmit]

How worthwhile is it to have a good solid Regurgitation set up? My LS leader is talking about the idea of BLU in abyssea with a good set up, spamming Regurg for damage. Is this possible? Or will the final tiers just resist the shit outta it?

Edit - Meant Voidwatch. Sorry.

[Nightfyre]

Possible? Yes... But hateless nuking in Abyssea isn't exactly a priority when you could be dishing out exponentially more damage via CDC. Voidwatch is sometimes a different story.

[transmit]

Bah totally typed the wrong thing. Sorry. Voidwatch.

Essentially I'm looking for a good way to deal damage in the higher tier Voidwatches (Pil, Qilin, Aello etc) without just being dead weight for procs. I've found vanity dive results a bit lacking (when /nin) so the suggestion was to try a regurg set up for low enmity damage.

[Kyte]

Yes, it can work well.

[Yugl]

Of course my graphics card is broken when good stuff comes out. SE always finds a way to make good stuff when I cannot play.

[Prothescar]

Regurgitation is arguably your best bet on VWNMs that don't outright resist magic damage or water damage, or on NMs with heavy physical resistance.