First BLU75 on bismarck: Battosi

[Taera]

Sorry if this is out of turn because I dont know a whole lot about BLU yet but i've heard of some BLUs making self Fusion skillchains. Is it possible to open/close light or dark or make the skillchain by yourself? Also the question about being able to stun Kirin or KB with Temporal Shift or Headbutt interests me too. Can you give a % on how often those 2 spells actually connect/stun? Thanks!^^

[Battosi]

Diamondhide is not the same as regular stoneskin. I used Diamondhide on myself and a rdm friend. He used his own stoneskin and it overwrited it. I wouldn't say its weak but it isn't over powered. To give you an idea I was tanking the flowers for the vertical move as blue/war. It was just me and a WHM friend. They are VT but they still hit pretty hard when they are open. They were hitting me for 60-100 and Diamondhide absorbed 3-4 hits. I'm doing 5 kirins this Thursday and I will get back to you on those stunning abilities.

[FFXIFlux]

The real question is : how many spells is he missing.

that's my Q

also are (if you have them) the spells from sea, peices of shit or pwn? How long does sheep song and yawn stick on IT mobs? And Stunga from temporal shift?

At 51 Sheep Song is still very unreliable. It's max duration is 55 seconds from using it on too weak (60 second recast) but it's often resisted by XP mobs and even EP mobs will often wake up in well under 55 seconds. Maybe with magic accuracy gear and staff it might improve but so far it's pretty unreliable. Not nearly as good as Sleep was at that level for RDM anyway.

Pinecone Bomb though lands pretty damn well, but it's duration is quite short.

[FFXIFlux]

Diamondhide is not the same as regular stoneskin. I used Diamondhide on myself and a rdm friend. He used his own stoneskin and it overwrited it. I wouldn't say its weak but it isn't over powered. To give you an idea I was tanking the flowers for the vertical move as blue/war. It was just me and a WHM friend. They are VT but they still hit pretty hard when they are open. They were hitting me for 60-100 and Diamondhide absorbed 3-4 hits. I'm doing 5 kirins this Thursday and I will get back to you on those stunning abilities.

Stoneskin caps at 350, if 60-100 x 4 is diamondhide then it sounds like it may be about the same. Be interesting to know if MND or VIT or staves boost it. Have time to play with some cactaur?

[chilicheese]

maybe this was just the BLU i partied with in kuftal, but everytime he used head butt the freaking crab moved over an inch and then back... so assuming the same thing happens on tiamat do you think the risk of causing a flail is high?

[Battosi]

Flux anything that isn't a physical blue mage move requires staves and INT/MND to be more efficient. Imagine an RDM trying to sleep IT+ mobs naked. They could still do it but their sleeps would not be that potent and they would get resisted more often. Same goes to brd. You will get resisted quite a few times if you were say naked or without an intrument. Hmm...ya flux it would seem so, but I would put it more at absorbing 3 of those hits. Maybe with MND or staff it would absorb that forth.

[riggy]

I would think the importance of a NA player accomplishing it would be because of a little thing called "language barrier." Its a lot easier to poke and prod someone about a new job, HNM, recipe if they can speak English and post on NA boards so that ppl like me who cant read Japanese have something._ .

yes because I needed an NA to tell me that I'll be spamming 3 spells for 75 levels, and I imagine BLU isn't going to be shit endgame until AF comes out, and if it is how does that really affect anyone? If you like the job, level it... explain to me again why people need to be shoveled info?

people test shit and post data all the time on here, how much of it isn't met with "omg your test sucks, your parser is broke, your WAR sucked" blah blah blah, alot of good it all does!

You're very pessimistic--but I like you!

[NynJa]

maybe this was just the BLU i partied with in kuftal, but everytime he used head butt the freaking crab moved over an inch and then back... so assuming the same thing happens on tiamat do you think the risk of causing a flail is high?

lol@knockback.

[Hige]

Hi Battosi, have you tested the higher level spells for level 2 renkei properties? This site suggests that the following spells possess level 2 properties: Cannonball (Fusion), Disseverment (Distortion), Ram Charge (Fragmentation), and Vertical Cleave (Gravitation). If you could test this for confirmation, that would be great, thanks.

[FFXIFlux]

maybe this was just the BLU i partied with in kuftal, but everytime he used head butt the freaking crab moved over an inch and then back... so assuming the same thing happens on tiamat do you think the risk of causing a flail is high?

Uppercut moves a mob as well. What I want to see is a Jettataru'ed Tiamat, frozen in fear, with a little tree growing out of it's head.

[Maguspk]

Hmmm, 2 BLU spamming Headbutt seems a bit overpowered to me, if it lands even half the time >.>.

[NynJa]

Hmmm, 2 BLU spamming Headbutt seems a bit overpowered to me, if it lands even half the time >.>.

Well the stun effect can not proc...its rare, but I've seen it happen.


but dont speak it louder than a whisper, dont want SE to see it and nerf it ;;;;;;;

[Battosi]

Ahh very useful info Hige I will test it right now I am online. Give me a few minutes

[Russta]

maybe this was just the BLU i partied with in kuftal, but everytime he used head butt the freaking crab moved over an inch and then back... so assuming the same thing happens on tiamat do you think the risk of causing a flail is high?

Despite joking about it with friends, I don't think it will. Since I've been playing Corsair I've had windower's distance on the entire time and when a mob is knocked back it technically doesn't move.

[Not Kuno]

Headbutt + Worms = Hysterical

[JoOeetheplatypuS]

Headbutt + Worms = Hysterical

qft

But imagine slamming your head into something tiamat sized... and it actually moving. Now that would be a sight.

[Battosi]

Just confirmed Disseverment(distortion)> Asuran Fist(gravitation) = Darkness I'm testing the others and I will confirm the others shortly. I will keep editing this post here with the level 3 skillchains I find. I don't wanna double post. Ok just confirmed Vertical Cleave(Gravitation) > Tachi Gekko (distortion) = darkness.

[JoOeetheplatypuS]

Just confirmed Diss(distortion)> Asuran Fist(gravitation) = Darkness I'm testing the others and I will confirm the others shortly.

rgasm:

[Raineer]

Just confirmed Disseverment(distortion)> Asuran Fist(gravitation) = Darkness I'm testing the others and I will confirm the others shortly.

wtf....

wow

[othellojr]

Just confirmed Disseverment(distortion)> Asuran Fist(gravitation) = Darkness I'm testing the others and I will confirm the others shortly.

Nice, now all melee except Sam would be even more useless (well, still going to need Thf for TH..but meh) in fights where ls's rely on sc + mbs, though could just have 2 blus for scs too...should be interesting.