Blue Mage: Best thread ever

[dasva]

So I'm fighitng the vampyrs down in the dungeon and for some reason only seems to be 1 spawn... was a few last time I was here.... wtf. And of course it refuses to use bloodrake

[Vriska]

Apparently they share spawns with the other crap in the area. So murder everything.

[Yugl]

They take a while to use the move. We just bludgeoned/club/staffed until they used the move. There should be one within the big room and one within the smaller room though at minimum.

[dasva]

None were in the smaller room. Eventually got them to spawn killing stuff. And yeah stopped worrying about feeding tp. Some just would never use it. Like feeding it tp 1 dmg at a time 50 moves later and nothing. None used the charm thing either

[Vriska]

They do the gaze doom thing though :< So turn your back and spam spells. Bludgeon/Ass Claws work well.

[dasva]

Yeah I just ended up meleeing alot. Like turn around to melee immediately turn back. Seemed to work best since I don't really have a -str set to make the tp to dmg dealt ratio lower than my 2-4 swd lol.

[fantasticdan]

How much evasion would you need to cap on briareus at 99? Ocelot legs/hands, 1 eva sword, eva chakram, toreo torque, athos boots, eva trait, barbed crescent + gnarled horn, good enough?

[Neisan]

Couldn't you cap evasion on him at ~90?

[dasva]

You probably could but I think he's kinda asking how little you could get away with and still do it. That proposed set seems kinda overkill considering I could cap at 90 on thf naked with just GH and cruor buffs. Plus capped is overkill anyways given the fact that he will generally AOE your shadows down before he can melee them down unless you are back tanking

[fantasticdan]

You probably could but I think he's kinda asking how little you could get away with and still do it. That proposed set seems kinda overkill considering I could cap at 90 on thf naked with just GH and cruor buffs. Plus capped is overkill anyways given the fact that he will generally AOE your shadows down before he can melee them down unless you are back tanking

This. I have like 0 experience fighting him beyond just getting the win way back when, so I really have no idea. With those pieces I really don't lose much of anything melee wise, so if that's good enough it would be perfect. Is it worth using heed ring over epona's for the subtle blow? Or does he have regain or something?

[Neisan]

Almost positive he doesn't have regain.

[dasva]

He doesn't have regain. I'd use epona's ring.

[Martinius]

Anyone mind sharing their Heavy Strike and Amorphic Spikes builds?

Thanks!

[VZX01]

Heavy Strike = Base STR set except:
Hands : Heafoc -> Enkidu's Mittens
Belt : Warwolf -> Anguinus

Amorphic sets = Standard STR/DEX set
There aren't really many INT gear that have good DEX gear, might as well aim for STR/DEX gear for better approach (since fSTR is still basically 30% STR mod on top of the extra blue magic attack)

[jimbobsonofgod]

Athos Gloves
Maats cap
are the only 2 i can really think of without getting into random augment shit.

[Helel]

Was in bubu and was still missing the DC birds like crazy with heavy strike (with pizza). Wasn't even 50% hit rate. But normally, I use mavi scarf + mantis eye instead of the normal ire torque +1 and mavi tathlum. I "needed" the scarf previous @95 because it would push me over one damage tier (that I lost by switching the tathlum to the eye). I need to rework my set for 99, but that provides a decent amount of acc and you only lose 1 blue skill.

Also used denali feet instead of something else with more str. Might be something better out there now. Got athos's gloves recently, so I use those over heafoc. Think that's it. Everything else is regular str set.

The new crit damage gear might be interesting for heavy strike though. I haven't really looked into it much.

[dasva]

Also if you looking for acc Mantis Eye is a good option since you don't lose much in dmg stats compared to other slots

[Churchill]

I don't have perfect nuking gear by any means, but I'm able to put out 500-700 nukes from spells I have set for procs as fast as I can cast them. Over the course of different fights I've done from 5000-15000 just from fucking around and casting spells.

[Prothescar]

Nukes are an effective form of damage for us if you can't melee the mob for some reason, yeah.

[VZX01]

Nukes are an effective form of damage for us if you can't melee the mob for some reason, yeah.

Kalasutrax, Ig-Alima, and Botulus Rex are the only 3 I know I have problem with not being able to do physical damage well. Haven't tried the other T6 yet, but do they also have some kind of crazy damage cut like those 3?