The Beast Within -- A Guide To Blue Mage

BLU can't use Patentia.

Blu isn't on Patentia, sadly.

Oh damn, never saw that!

Which is more reliable against debuffs, 2x rune (+ plfug) for the right element or healing waltz? I am using /dnc for salvage mostly for para against cerb and some emergency cures just in case (e.g. right after homing missile). Of course, I can carry remedies for paralyze but... yeah, I admit I am being cheap :p

With /run and barparalyze more often than not you will full on resist

Oops, yeah totally forgot to add barspells, thanks. Not only barparalyze but barblizzard helps too. They stick para on me almost all the time despite all the magic evasion vomit on the ilvl gears. I was wondering if /run would easily fix that.

It does and with anguine blade at your disposal chariot shouldnt be an issue

Sanguine*

Yeah, probably. I used to care about resists and evading magic damage from Cerberus (fire), but ever since I started learning the monster, this fight against cerbers and ocerberus became shockingly easy.

I actually do this as /war and finish the zone in about 30minutes, skipping single gears and just mass genocide all of the other monsters. Cerberus is a joke with Magic Barrier, Blank Gaze, Sudden Lunge, and an occasional Magic fruit (I save blood drake for when im really in a bind). Piece of cake. /dnc or /run not even necessary, and adds nothing to you that you will be able to use the prior 3 floors. Kind of a waste I think.

You can avoid most, if not all, of his attacks by just keeping him stunned. If you have a good Macc set and focus on killing the crap out of him, you can have either of them dead in maybe 6-8 stuns, before it gains a significant resistance.

I've found that just using requiescat is more than enough to keep him from gaining a significant damage resistance as well.

Both wikis don't seem to have this info so I figure I'd ask here. Can different Aftermaths stack? Like if I use Expiacion on a mainhanded Tizona and then used CDC on an offhand Almace, would I get the effects of both?

No the aftermath only applies from the main handed weapon.

I got some work to do...

The guide says, "All pieces of Hagondes gear should be augmented with at least some Magic Attack Bonus. It does not take much to make each piece superior."

Does any one have any idea how much is not much? At least +10 on all pieces?

I think OP used NQ stones, so you can start with those. Honestly you really don't have to +1 hagondes unless you have the gil to blow. You can augment an NQ set, get another NQ set and HQ those and slowly try to augment the HQ while you keep your NQ for use. That way you can spend gil on cheap v stone +2 (they are 200k each on my server atm) or +1 and augment a nice +20 something MAB.

Would a Subduction build work with Bolelabunga and Gabaxorea instead of 2x Gabaxorea? How much dmg difference between the 2 setups assuming same equipment?

I guess it comes down to being worth the gil and the risk factor of random augments or not. Since there is no mp cost and recast issues with Subduction, I wonder if there is a point where it is just overkill. Where people use this and wreak havoc, do they really ever "need" a few more +mab on a slot?

That said, what do most people dress up as a nuker for, where you can't already succeed just as well or even better with swords? Low tier solo Ra'kaznar? Is this mostly for fun or really worth it to pump gils on augments?

Dual wield new clubs, 6 hit (+ws) build = new best thing.

Elaborate ?

Blue mages will be capable of learning the following spells.
Restoral (Lv.99, Recast time: 10 sec.) Restores the caster’s HP.
Rail Cannon (Lv.99, Recast time: 180 sec.) Deals light damage to an enemy.
Diffusion Ray (Lv. 99, Recast time: 45 sec.)Deals light damage to enemies within a fan-shaped area originating from caster.
Sinker Drill (Lv.99 Recast time: 75 sec.)Delivers a fivefold attack. Damage varies with TP.

New spells only available under the effects of Unbridled Wisdom:
Uproot (Lv.99, Recast time: 30 sec.)Deals light damage to enemies within range. Also removes status ailments from caster.
Crashing Thunder (Lv.99, Recast time: 30 sec.)Deals lightning damage to enemies within range.
Polar Roar (Lv.99, Recast time: 30 sec.) Deals ice damage to enemies within range. Additional effect: Bind.

The job point category “Learning Chance” will be changed to “Physical Blue Magic Effect Accuracy.”
Increases the accuracy of the additional effects of physical blue magic.
* Any job points spent in Learning Chance will automatically be carried over into Physical Blue Magic Effect Accuracy.

It looks like even more aoe damage spells we will never use. Only Uproot sounds interesting to me but it is JA only. It is a different story if the normal ones will open up higher tiers of some useful traits, though.

*** holy ***i came

all of them except diffusion ray have the potential to be awesome, but with things like subduction existing it's very difficult to say that any of these will definitely be disappointing. excited about Uproot the most out of the UL spells, finally a way to remove status ailments.

3 minute recast on rail cannon, I'm guessing its strong but SE has fooled me before. Hopefully these new magic spells have an actual mod so BA has a function

I suspect that rail cannon will. the recast is too long for it to act like the other spells we've received recently

If the casting time is low, it will hopefully be fun to MB with it. 130 sec recast calls for some nice damage.

What's a good spell to use with to self-light with CDC?

I use spikes for darkness, but I know there's a spell to self-light with CDC.

squeeeeee



CDC--->Thrashing Assault (Fusion)
Savage Blade--->Thrashing Assault (Light)
CDC-->Tourbillion (Light)

or my favorite....

CDC--->CDC

CDC -> Thrashing -> Rail Cannon would be the ideal situation unless you have got the buffs to self SC with CDC. This is before knowing the properties for Sinker Drill though, I'm hoping for Fusion or Gravitation.