Immortal Lions - Blue Mage Artifact Quests

[SilverBreeze]

So I come home from work today, still kinda bummed about BLU AF, on top of having to come home early from partying and sleep last night cause I had to be to work at fucking 6 in the morning. Get home 10 hours later, open up my delivery and....

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c1...s/img_0028.jpg

Thanks Darkie, you made my day sweetheart, you're the best!

[Hyjynx]

So I come home from work today, still kinda bummed about BLU AF, on top of having to come home early from partying and sleep last night cause I had to be to work at fucking 6 in the morning. Get home 10 hours later, open up my delivery and....

That's awesome, my homie Ponskun did the same thing for me. I was all [sadface] about AF till he did.

[$omeguy]

So I come home from work today, still kinda bummed about BLU AF, on top of having to come home early from partying and sleep last night cause I had to be to work at fucking 6 in the morning. Get home 10 hours later, open up my delivery and....

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c1...s/img_0028.jpg

Thanks Darkie, you made my day sweetheart, you're the best!

Nice to See people can support each other, Kudos Only if anyone else was like that heh heh.

[jiang]

further proof that boobs gets you gear!

[Charla]

taru don't count

[Priran]

taru don't count

they would if their boobs were large enough to be visible, I suppose

[Epical]

Darkrift is a super cool guy. Grats SB!

[Credos]

Also about the bhoots thing... those are atleast not nearly as gay as soulflayers but they can still wipe a pt, they easier to silence atleast and can dispel ice spikes

*insert Aurik's Perdition pic*

They don't spam it, only seen it like once per few fights.. or you could probably manaburn it down without even touching it to give TP for the chance at the ws

I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to say here... but RDM AF has nice boosts to skill as well. Body is +15 Enfeebling Skill, Hands + to Parry, Legs +10 Enhancing Magic Skill....

The BLU AF looks very similar to RDM AF to me in terms of stats. Not exactly the same, just similar.

oh yeah forgot about that, shows how much I pay attention to any af1 gear w

oh well atleast the blu af is decent, especially the hands for when SE releases blue magic like zypher wind from puk's

Pretty much every piece of AF set has at least one if not more +Skill stats on it.

NIN Hatsuburi
Gallant Leggings
Choral Cuffs

etc etc etc.

[Lamente]

Yeah I was looking at RDM AF and noticed a lot of similarities. And if I'm not mistaken, AF feet could bring our evasion to the equivalent of a B?

RDM body is great, hat is awesome and legs are very good to swap in occasionally, gloves and feet are pure shit.

BLU AF is all pure shit except body which you'll swap in occasionally. BLU legs are decent while leveling (too bad I was 75 before the fucking thing even came out ) Overall, a very weak set. And the evasion means jack, I don't dodge shit with my NIN unless I go all out evasion gear, and thats as a mithra with more agi than god herself. Feather Barrier is useless and Warmup I doubt gives anything significant.

Well, I wouldn't really call the BLU AF "pure shit," because as AF sets go, it really isn't that bad. Of course, my main before this was SMN, which has a pretty awful AF set...

But in any case, the hat really isn't that bad. INT and MND for nukes, healing, enfeebling, and whatever the hell else is affected by them. "Enhances correlation effects," while situational, is still a good thing. If BLM AF had "Enhances elemental weakness effects," I don't think anyone would be complaining. Yes, I realize some things like O-hat (which I don't have yet) and Walahra Turban (which I do have) may trump it, but I think the AF head looks cool, and I'm a sucker for looking cool. =/

As for the body, yes, it's probably most efficient to swap it in for spells, and then swap out to SH, Homam, what have you. But I'm not sure I want to have that many equip swaps over the course of a fight, popping in and out, mages unable to target... I know that as a mage, melee with tons of equip swaps can be troublesome at times (mages aren't really in the line of fire so it doesn't really matter in that case). And, of course, there's that looking cool thing again. Anyways, I'm still debating things; I'm not as attuned to the melee side of this game as I am to mage, so I still consider myself learning. I know that while farming Hysteric Barrage yesterday, in full AF (didn't go full DD gear because at one point I had a RDM/NIN skilling daggers helping me, so -Enmity ftw), against VT mobs, no food, I didn't really have any acc problems to speak of.

Okay, I think I have everything worked out. After a little testing, I decided my melee acc blows on IT mobs, even with acc bonus trait equipped, so I bought a SH for meleeing in. After parsing over the course of a party, I found out that I had a hit rate of 67% while the other melee had about 80% or so.

Magus Jubbah is going to be swapped in before I the casting of each spell, for the benefit of the 15 skill.

I am going to replace AF head with O-hat, when I get it, and Turban. O-hat for harder mobs, Turban for weaker.

[Not Kuno]

Alot of stuff

Your signature breaks the forums.

[Lamente]

Alot of stuff

Your signature breaks the forums.

I am a powerful person.

[Blackjakal]

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Wonder how many people work for SE that they all missed the fact that a desynthed drop from a lvl 75+ mob mightive been a dumb idea to begin with.

[Aodh]

Wonder how many people work for SE that they all missed the fact that a desynthed drop from a lvl 75+ mob mightive been a dumb idea to begin with.

I wonder how many people expected the only way to achieve this item was through desynthed drop from a level 80-85 mob and not synthed.

The stupid thing about it I bet is that they meant to have the recipe in the original update, but when they were dividing it into 3 parts it was put in the wrong update.

[Blackjakal]

The stupid thing about it I bet is that they meant to have the recipe in the original update, but when they were dividing it into 3 parts it was put in the wrong update.

My exact thoughts, they seem to do this every other update then go back over to clean up their mess.

- Players who are inside their Mog house could be KO'd by monsters during defensive Besieged. This issue will be fixed.

Shit like this makes me wonder how much they get paid to even care when and what they fuck up on.

[Elavon]

anyone knows the recipe?
everyone silent in my server....

[Lazureus]

nothing about it anywhere it seems. no one is posting any information regarding the new recipe. maybe the clothcrafters are trying to keep it from getting out so people will still pay large amounts of money...

[Khamsin]

anyone knows the recipe?
everyone silent in my server....

Probably requires Soulflayer robes and some other material, or maybe just a wind crystal.

[Masenko]

According to the "wealth of information" that is KI, the recipe is:
1x Gold Thread + 1x Silk Thread + 1x Wamoura Silk + Earth Crystal

[Bumage]

Dunno what receipe is but whatever it is seems to be really cheap baught my 2nd imp silk cloth for 100k.

I paid 2.5mil for the first one to get the body but i still think it was worth it no one had any idea when they would make a receipe for it.

[Pro]

According to the "wealth of information" that is KI, the recipe is:
1x Gold Thread + 1x Silk Thread + 1x Wamoura Silk + Earth Crystal

Anyone prove/disprove this yet?