The Beast Within -- A Guide To Blue Mage

No, BLU doesn't get Fast Cast I from having one tier. The Gift brings it to normal FC1.




Bonus maths, here's some numbers for various DW stuff with DW5:

Capped Gear Haste + Haste II + DW5
256/1024 + 300/1024 + 35% DW

1 - .35 = .65
1024 - 256 - 300 = 468
468 * .65 = 304
304/1024 = 29.7% Delay Remaining, 70.3% Delay Reduction


Capped Gear Haste + Haste II + DW5 + Suppa
256/1024 + 300/1024 + 40% DW

1 - .4 = .6
1024 - 256 - 300 = 468
468 * .6 = 280
280/1024 = 27.3% Delay Remaining, 72.7% Delay Reduction


Capped Gear Haste + Haste II + DW5 + Suppa + Taeon Boots
256/1024 + 300/1024 + 44% DW

1 - .44 = .56
1024 - 256 - 300 = 468
468 * .56 = 262
262/1024 = 25.6% Delay Remaining, 74.4% Delay Reduction


Capped Gear Haste + Haste II + DW5 + DWEarSet + Taeon Boots
256/1024 + 300/1024 + 46% DW

1 - .46 = .54
1024 - 256 - 300 = 468
468 * .54 = 252
252/1024 = 24.6% Delay Remaining, 75.4% Delay Reduction


Capped Gear Haste + Haste II + DW5 + DWEarSet + Taeon Boots + Shetal Stone
256/1024 + 300/1024 + 52% DW

1 - .52 = .48
1024 - 256 - 300 = 468
468 * .48 = 224
224/1024 = 21.9% Delay Remaining, 78.1% Delay Reduction


Capped Gear Haste + Haste II + DW5 + DWEarSet + Taeon Boots + Shetal Stone + Thurandaut Head or Haverton Ring
256/1024 + 300/1024 + 57% DW

1 - .57 = .43
1024 - 256 - 300 = 468
468 * .43 = 201
201/1024 = 19.6% Delay Remaining, 80.4% Delay Reduction






Capped Gear Haste + Haste II + March + DW5
256/1024 + 448/1024 + 35% DW

1 - .35 = .65
1024 - 256 - 448 = 320
320 * .65 = 208
208/1024 = 20.3% Delay Remaining, 79.7% Delay Reduction

theyre awful


aside: taeon tights confirmed with +2% Triple Attack augment, rip Iuitl. Qaaxo hands and feet can also be replaced by Taeon if augments carry to other pieces, the DW on the feet make them problematic however. Hard to fit 4% DW in, but could just drop DW5 and take the small (less than 10 delay) loss in attack speed, very likely still comes out better in the long run and gives extra set points.

Alluvion armor augments look ridicilous compared to the original skirmish sets. Not just taeon, apparently all of them. This must be SE's new way to vaporize gil <.< Delve v2, can I have it? This random crap is killing me.

Edit: It seems much easier to get good stats with these as well. Right after the update ended, people started posting "too good to be true" results.

I know DA/TA/QA devalue aftermath 3 so should tiz owners bother with them for melee or would they be a WS piece only?

I know information is still getting sorted out, but what kind of augments would it take for Taeon Head to RIP Iuitl +1 as well for TP? Given I think Iuitl +1 now has +2 augment slots on top of PDT, and Taeon is augmentable with some crazy combination of TA, Attack/Accuracy, and more stat vomit or Crit Hit Damage+

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Figured as much, but damn, that sure would have been nice. Could have possibly reduced downtime on diffusion flutter to minuscule levels.


I haven't plugged it into the spreadsheet, so don't quote me here, but I'm not altogether sure Taeon head can beat 2DA Iuitl. I know that with just 15 accuracy and 2 TA it demolishes whirlpool for an accuracy swap, but Iuitl, at least to my eyeball math, still seems to be king for headpieces.

I was definitely looking at it for a CDC piece, but I haven't seen anything above 9 dex on armor augments, and I'm not sure how 9 dex would hold up against the 1 bonus crit on Uk as well as more dex and str. Did you see that 17 on armor? If so, that would constitute an enormous shift in gear. Every single Taeon piece could be used for CDC if the augments ended up that high and you had TA + acc/atk. I've already ditched my HQ Nomkahpa for Taeon with 3 STR/DEX, 18 acc/atk, 2 TA. Imagine every piece with massive DEX augs.

I got really excited when I saw the fast cast on the body, but was then like oh yeah, Luhlaza. Now I'm sad.

Be nice if we could get a body with 10 fc. I mean we are a mage and all the mage sets that happen to have blu on them have avoided fc like the plague...

At least we still have Mavi body for blu magic.

I also see a ton of BLU's casting BLU magic in Dread or Luhlaza and missing out on the extra 5% from Mavi +2.

BLU gets a lot of generic fastcast as well that people seem to forget...


ItemSet 333475

57% in this set and 8% quick magic. I also see a ton of BLU's casting BLU magic in Dread or Luhlaza and missing out on the extra 5% from Mavi +2.