About Blue Mage Endgame Gear =X

[Nishida]

I'm about to hit 75 on my first job..Blue Mage. As such I've began contemplating what gear I should aim for. I know there are several choices for each slot, and I just want to know how to best prioritize each piece. I'm asking in terms of ease of obtaining and usefulness scale from easiest to most useful/hardest. Any and all help will be appreciated.

Also, assume I have access to everything and time to do everything. (I don't, but will be working on all that.)

Here is the list I came up with:

Weapons/Offhand:
Perdu Hangar
Beast/Demon Slayer
Genbu's Shield

Head:
Homam Zucchetto

Neck:
Fortitude Torque
Kubira Bead Necklace (Macro piece)

Ears:
Brutal Earring
Suppanomimi

Body:
Morigan's Robe
Enkidu's Harness
Mirage Jubbah
Assault Jerkin (No, I don't have one, lol.)
Scorpion Harness (Been TPing in AF1..I know I'm stupid..)

Hands:
Dusk Gloves (Sold em to afford my utsusemi ni..stupid i know)
Homam Manopolas
Enkidu's Mittens

Rings:
Rajas Ring (will have this soon)
Flame Ring

Back:
Cuchulain's Mantle

Waist:
Swift Belt

Legs:
Homam cosciales
Crimson Cuisses (yay 12% movement)
Mirage Shalwar

Feet:
Denali gameashes
Homam gambieras

I realize I did leave certain pieces out. Any suggestions for left out pieces also appreciated. So..what pieces first? =(

[ubermonkey]

[QUOTE=Nishida;2337403]
Here is the list I came up with:

Weapons/Offhand:
Perdu Hangar
Beast/Demon Slayer
Genbu's Shield[quote]

Hofud? Whatever HQ staff cannonball uses for SATA cannonball.

Head:
Homam Zucchetto

Turban

Neck:
Fortitude Torque
Kubira Bead Necklace (Macro piece)

WS gorgets.

Ears:
Brutal Earring
Suppanomimi

Triumph earring(s)?

Body:
Morigan's Robe
Enkidu's Harness
Mirage Jubbah
Assault Jerkin (No, I don't have one, lol.)
Scorpion Harness (Been TPing in AF1..I know I'm stupid..)

Homam body

Hands:
Dusk Gloves (Sold em to afford my utsusemi ni..stupid i know)
Homam Manopolas
Enkidu's Mittens

You don't need dusk if you have homam. Morrigans.

Rings:
Rajas Ring (will have this soon)
Flame Ring

Snipers/+1

Back:
Cuchulain's Mantle

Foragers mantle

Waist:
Swift Belt

Warwolf.

Legs:
Homam cosciales
Crimson Cuisses (yay 12% movement)
Mirage Shalwar

Morrigans.

Feet:
Denali gameashes
Homam gambieras

Rutter Sabatons.


I'd concentrate on getting Homam, it works for so many jobs, anything you can buy, and start doing salvage asap on the basis that the drop rates are ass.

[Nishida]

I mostly listed stuff I didnt already have. I have acc rings I have warwolf, etc..but ya. Also I read that for instance the body pieces i listed are better than homam considering SH is basically the same thing and morrigans is much better for over all.

[Kaslo]

Don't forget Fragarach (sp? just call it Fragglerock ) it's probably the best sword to pair with Perdu for /nin right now. (other than Mythic)

[Yugl]

Item Sets - FFXIAH.com

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Item Sets - FFXIAH.com

Edit: Item Sets - FFXIAH.com

[Marcicus]

How are you going to make an ideal TP build but not have Dusk Gloves +1? >_>

[Suiram]

I just did the calculations quickly, so hopefully I didn't make a mistake, but I think in the gear-sets posted above a Tiphia Sting would be better than White Tathlum with Perdu/Frag. Store TP +6 (5.4% TP/hit) and +8 (5.5%) are both 19 hits to 100%, and if you set the Job trait, both +16 (5.9%) and +18 (6.0%) are 17 hits to 100%. I'm not counting the extra hits from Vorpal because of Chain Affinity.

More generally, the main Store TP issue I've encountered is using Store TP job trait and Brutal without Rajas (Store TP+11). If you're using Perdu/Frag there's no issue, but if you don't have frag so you're using 225/236 weapon, you'll land at 99% after each CA without another +1 Store TP. It's straightforward from there if you don't have HQ snipers or Toreadors, because you can just lose 1 Acc with Ecphoria ring, but if you do you have +7 rings you might be better off switching out Tiphia Sting for White Tathlum, although I could be wrong on that question (1 Acc vs. 2 Att), too, I haven't really considered the math both because I have frag and because I only have NQ snipers

[6souls]

a decent alternate head piece for the Big3 would be Gnadbhod's Helm. The bc isn't that tough neither are the NMs to get the pop items.

http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/ff...bhods_helm.jpg

[el_tio]

Hofud? Whatever HQ staff cannonball uses for SATA cannonball.

Staff for Cannonball is a bad idea IMO, unless you're getting minnes.