A Blu equipment/how to question

[Battlecat]

Well of course I had it equipped for accuracy bonus... I was just horribly disappointed every time I actually cast it >.>

[LinktheDeme]

le sigh... this post actually forced me to finally register on this site.

Situational things are situational...

First off... the MBing is never worth the mp cost is a load of crap... It's rather awesome if you're leveling on an aspirable mob in the late 40's early 50's. Red Lotus Blade >> CASA Sickle Slash = Gravitation + MP Drainkiss MB = you just gained MP for busting out some great damage, sounds pretty worth it to me.

/nin should really only be used for soloing, colibri, imps, and merits. Anything that is actually tanked should be /thfed. Far more MP efficient damage with /thf.

As for the gearing question. Yes, have a TP build. For the spells, it differs a bit. If you're /thf, stack on all the STR you can as all physical spells have it as a modifier(some have others as well, can look it up on any of the spell pages on the wiki), but once you get to multi hit spells you're gonna want to keep a good amount of accuracy in there as well to make sure you're landing all the hits consistently.

I can't for the life of me figure out why Link posted all his gear in this thread... but I will agree with him/her on one thing... DON'T TP IN YOUR AF!!!! Remember that old commercial with the landfill and the native american guy with the single tear running down his cheek... that's me every time I see a BLU TPing in their AF or even worse... TPing/Dissevermenting in +mp, int and mnd gear (okay that last one only happened once... but he was 75 and in Limbus for christs sake... should know better)

Hit nail on the head, only posted gear to enphasize on the fact that all blus should optimize their damage by having different sets and I get emo when BLUs tend not to. Or when they fucking use + MP pieces when theres a better stat in that slot (ex. electrum rings instead of str or acc rings depending on situation. Though full time str rings are understandable if one cannot afford an acc ring as well but I think venerer ring is cheap now.)

[Tamashii]

don't be afraid to sj whm and main heal if the pt asks for it.

if you wanna get to 75...

[lovehatehero]

Awesome advise and ive taken a lot of it to mind while pting and such. I have 75thf so i have a lot of useable Acc/haste gear ready for my blu which is nice is saving some gil for other things such as str rings etc. So far i have been /thf in most the pt's and seem to fair very well with that. Good damage output, and the self SC + MB drainkiss helps my mp pool specialy if im missing a fresher. So make to make sure to, dont wait until i have 100+ to to ws ca spells? Unless of course the timers match up. instead just use CASA spells whenever i can huh? Well that helps a bit, one step closer to being that much better a blu :D

[Sylvrdragon]

...TPing/Dissevermenting in +mp, int and mnd gear (okay that last one only happened once... but he was 75 and in Limbus for christs sake... should know better)

I'm guessing this was the immunities Zone in Apollyon? Maybe he was asked to come BLU after repeatedly stating to his LS that he didn't have his BLU gear anymore, and so he used whatever he had left over from his RDM because he was broke and it was better than nothing? In that situation, I could see how it might be ok. Desperate times call for desperate measures.

In the case that you're not talking about that shameful moment that I was forced to reveal my nearly naked BLU, then I agree, that guy needs his shit straightened.

[LinktheDeme]

don't be afraid to sj whm and main heal if the pt asks for it.

if you wanna get to 75...

While /whm is nice at this day and age /sch is better imo. Both are great for mainhealing which blue mage is very capable of doing. Just not capable of hasting.

[Kaslo]

While /whm is nice at this day and age /sch is better imo. Both are great for mainhealing which blue mage is very capable of doing. Just not capable of hasting.

It is at 75 with full merited diffusion (yeah I know not full time and not full haste)

[Fogo]

I'll reiterate those that have mentioned subbing thf, I subbed thf all the way till 70 at which point it became clear that /nin was finally going to surpass what i could do as /thf.

somewhere around lvl 40 I got into a static though so i'm a bit biased, we had two nins in our static, so i'm also spoiled. However, I did try /nin a couple times with them and I absolutely hated it. One of our members parsed our sessions and my total damage literally fell about 7% ( one time i tried in the 50's, the other time i tried in the 60's).

SATA death scissors is absolutely worth it.

Blu should never melee in AF body. SH is probably your best piece till assault jerkin (play it by ear after that with your acc in each piece).

I echo what the others said about pacing yourself, just find a groove that works with your party, and even without a rdm (we only had a brd in our satatic) you can still find that groove, though it might take getting yourself a vermy (ugh i hated meleeing in vermy)

[LinktheDeme]

It is at 75 with full merited diffusion (yeah I know not full time and not full haste)

at 75 if you're subbing whm and trying to main heal then either you or your ls is playing the game wrong.

[Kaslo]

at 75 if you're subbing whm and trying to main heal then either you or your ls is playing the game wrong.

I wasn't serious