The Beast Within -- A Guide To Blue Mage

With the exception of spells that have an INT mod, you're right on this. Luh. Bazubands +1 only have 12 Int while Assim. Bazu. +1 have 22. Though Prothe's physical spells sets are only a general guide and he has said that optimizations for certain spells are necessary.

I honestly admit that I haven't really optimized spell sets or gone after gear specifically for them in a while now since I hardly cast for damage other than 2 spells.

Blue physical spells: Buremte gloves with +8 STR aug

Hmm, yeah I dismissed that since I use dex aug buremte for my high acc set.

Really hard to find another set of gloves where you can get that level of str and acc loving it.

Neither are BiS except for specific situations and spells. You can tailor the crap out of your sets if you feel like carrying a ton of situational gear for that one time you decide to cast that spell on that mob with those buffs I guess. You'd probably be carrying ejekamal only for a couple spells, though.

tbh, I am using ejekamal and buremte with tree augments for pdt tp set and I am happy with the result.......... because I refuse to deal with random augments on iutl orz. But the accuracy on them helps too so still not bad.

Does the mod augments really make any noticeable difference?

edit: I got another question. From a blu perspective, should I get 15 vit merits or mnd?

As things are now, I would recommend int.

Subduction?

That + whisker/pulse/etc and sanguine. Mnd doesn't seem that great currently now that requiescat has taken a back seat to cdc/sb.

Vit might actually be decent after the attack buff + physical blue magic update, but we'll have to see.

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They are the best for almost every spell in terms of damage and are on the high end for acc also. There is no other pieces that have as much STR to offer which is the most important stat for damage on BLU physical spells. Arguments could be made for BT wear you may want some more macc and certainly more AGI on hands. Other spells with high mods like Vanity Dive might be best suited for gear with higher DEX, but who seriously casts this spell any longer.

There are only a few physical spells worth casting:
1. BT = you cast this to land the additional effects, not really for damage, concentrate on acc and macc as the most important
2. Sudden Lunge = see BT
3. QC = (skillchain dark) STR and acc here with VIT being about half as important as STR (ie don't worry about VIT)
4. AS = (skillchain light) STR, yes it has other mods but they are small and don't add near as much as STR to overall damage
5. Thrashing Assualt = STR
6. Delta Thrust = (additional effect) STR and VIT should be given equal value for a damage component
7. Heavy Strike (skillchain light or vs blunt) = STR, acc

For buremte gloves in particular, it's mostly preference. MND and STR are both strong augments for BLU (can't speak on any others, I wouldn't really consider them myself). For the mask though there's no reason that you'd ever want to put anything other than STR on it

What is the best augment for ukuxkaj cap?

Just got thrashing assault and its clearly a lot better than AS/QC, does it chain off cdc or req? If new magic spells don't have wsc, do the physical spells have wsc? Wondering if its worth using CA with it when up to boost damage or if it simply just lets it skillchain with no added bonus to damage.

Also subduction is so f*cking good it makes my d*ck rock hard. Seriously, i'm blasting things for like 3500 and can prof grav on everything, gotta try soloing some AA's with it and Glutinous Dart. Seriously if you havent tried it, got get a pair of 119 delve clubs, MAB and mdmg up the wazoo, go solo into skirmish 3 with some healer trusts and solo everything in like 10 minutes with subduction including Dullahans etc

It would seem DEX since the adjustments to CDC.

with more critical hit rate?

Anyone mind posting a good Subduction set? I'd be interested in soloing skirmish if that's a real option, mainly for easy access to Job Points.

Which reminds me, where do you guys go to get 55k/h Capacity Points and what play style do use you for that? Pulling a bunch of mobs and AoEing or what's the way to go about it?

As far as I know, the highest WS we can SC with Thrashing Assault is Savage Blade. In my experience, it used be that it was never worth using Savage Blade over CDC or Requescat but now, with the recent WS changes, skillchain resistance adjustments and Thrashing Assault's 32% STR 32% DEX mod, it seems a lot more viable than it used to. Even more so once BLU magic starts getting boosts from Att+ songs, etc come the next update.

That's part of it, but more because Dex is the mod and there are better pieces fit casting and to.

CDC and trashing assault is fusion

Still getting used to new phone....

Subduction makes Dynamis farming for AF for other jobs a breeze, BLU/THF with Chaac Belt and Treasure Hound from Signet(TH4 combined), can 2shot most Dynamis mobs including most NMs and get decent drop rates on AF/Currency/100pieces. Also makes Salvage farming for Alex a breeze too, kill most gears in 2-3 casts. I want to marry this spell.

What kind of gear set would be ideal for something like Blood Saber, Magic Attack Bonus, Magic Accuracy or a mix of both?

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Hmmm, blood saber is a dark magical blu spell.

so i think try to use the magical set, not the macc one, its not a debuff, do MAB max i think

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Blood Saber is a drain spell so potewncy is based only on Skill and Drain/Aspir gear I believe, like Blood Drain, Digestion, MP Drainkiss etc..

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From wiki:

So something like this should work then?

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