The Beast Within -- A Guide To Blue Mage

It's my Mind Blast and Magic Hammer set. Regurgitation spam for bind I use mostly magic accuracy.

I don't know how I misread that lol

I would try to mix in INT over straight macc on Regurgitation, though, although I would certainly use mostly macc on Blastbomb.


Really on anything that didn't resist it or took bonus damage from something else, Regurgitation was always the best nuke. Breath spells were largely inefficient with the exception of Poison Breath.

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I don't have Morrigan's Cuffs or I'd use those. I'm not sure if Blue Magic skill affects the additional effect accuracy.

It does. Damage wise, Yigit are actually better than Morrigan's anyways without the set bonus.

I would use them for the magic accuracy.

So *** if there aren't a ton of new things to do since quitting around Escha Zitah launch, what exactly should be the order of priority on grabbing things for BLU?

*** if a ton of events haven't dropped since then.

-Got all the dual ele spells.
-Got Mighty Guard
-Got Taeon

He's actually super easy on Normal, although I did go /RUN.

Are you absurdly rich? Find Amalric and Adhemar HQ pieces and HQ Carmine feet.
Are you decently rich? Find Amalric and Adhemar NQ pieces and NQ Carmine feet.
Spam the everliving crap out of Sinister Reign for dampening tam, samnuha tights, leyline gloves, medium's sabots and some vampirisms.
Pick up one or two (depending on if you have a good Claid or not) nibiru blade. Get all of the Psycloth/Rawhide gear from Zitah.
Pick up petrov ring and thereoid greaves from Ru'Aun. Grab cessance earring from the new O/U fight.

Probably going to sound like a dumb question, because I've never really played RUN or /RUN, but what exactly does it offer? I assume some sort of (magic) damage reduction, but I honestly don't know. I'm intrigued by it though, especially if it enhances BLU's utility and the things it can solo.

For instance, against Fenrir, a BLU/RUN would want to have the "light" rune active, to gain enlighten and resistance versus darkness? Could I have both Vallation and Pflug active at once?

How's this play out in Dawn - Normal?

He has some dark based attacks, and Lux+Vallation reduces that. He also goes Invincible during certain periods, so Lux lets you keep doing some damage. You can also MB your Lunges/Swipes.

You can stun him too with sudden lunge pretty easily (even on D) so use that to your advantage.

My last post was a bit rushed as I was heading out the door, but I just wanted to say welcome back, Sparthos.

I most likely forgot some important pieces, so feel free to ask anything you need in the thread.

That's a nice to do list.

Yeah, and one that would probably take me a year to complete. I've been spamming both Escha zone NM's for the past 2 months and have zero rawhide and only Psycloth body. But, I only play every night, so, yeah.

My biggest issue with it has been getting people willing to actually do anything. I've just transferred to Asura though so it should be a lot easier to find people.
Probably getting screwed by RNGesus. Seems like he's killing NMs no problem. Either that or his version of spamming is 1-2 NMs a night, which would understandably take longer.


Edit: Is the GS in the OP still pretty good to build off of? I think I'm going to dedicate some time to getting my GS together this weekend.

I'm 0/16 on Rawhide Vest and lost lots on all other gear that's open (based on locking 1 item with your KI). My LS typically runs Escha twice a week, 10-12 pops per run.

Again, I only play every night, not during the day (work, family), so getting the drops I need plus winning lots when it's a free lot makes it difficult.

Its a starting point. There may be some additions you'll want to make. Take a peek at some of the other leading Lua's out there and you'll probably find functionality you'll want to include~

We don't lock an item because of cost, but when you have 10-12 people using pops, it can get frustrating leaving with nothing when you hit that 4800 slit per pop after being there a couple hours. I don't have an issue with that at all (especially when you get to T2/T3/HELM), I've just had bad luck (Vest has been really elusive, probably around 2/35 from what I've seen).

just got Nibiru Blade and Rawhide Trousers, along with Theroid greaves this morning :P Guess I'll use Rawhide Feet as best acc feet now...

Went with PLD SCH RNG x3 COR for Nosoi, 1/1 on sword!

Since most (all?) strategies I see for Nosoi don't include BLU, despite it being the job that needs a thing from it, I feel obligated to state that BLU is more than viable for it. I did it with WHM GEO BLM BLU, with Amchuchu and Trion tanking and the BLU setting up and self bursting the Dark SCs.

Half my slashing damage is still twice as large as any other man's

Edit: did that line make it into the show? I'm not caught up on the show.

Previously on Animorphs:

I last left off doing Alluvion Skirms and Vagary, getting my upgrade pieces in Taeon and Helios. Most of my Taeon had the 2TA augs, leaving me somewhere between the mid and high tier on TP.

What I'm interested in is how hard the Escha NMs are. Nibiru Blade looks like it's off a tough mob so that might be a while and Claid augs seem just as fickle as pre-quitting so that's on ice. I'm stuck with Uson/Bura for the time being.

Thereoid and Cessance seem like upgrades I could solo w/trusts, lottery willing.

What's the current club hierarchy? Last I left I was 50 job points into what looks like an endless grind so unlocking the 100jp gift seems like priority 1. Managed to get a Facility ring dicking around Ru'Aun so that was nice for boost.

Soloing the gates portal areas still seems viable, I imagine the Woh Gates bats are still the place for capacity parties?

It looks harder than it is. Any 3 man magic setup will have no problem beating it with a trust tank. I did it Sch+Sch+Cor mule, a Blu setup might look like Sch Blu Geo or something.

Nibiru Clubs are best, with Gabaxorea still second best. However, Vampirism is about equivalent to Gabaxorea.

CP parties should consider the Apex monsters.

Most of my parties have been against those bats. I can solo them very quickly though, so I don't have much incentive to join those parties. My favorite solo place is leeches and efts past the morimar portal, now that they added lottery NMs to escha sky.

However, they added apex mobs which some parties are beginning to target. They give much more CP/kill, I'm sure it works out to more per hour with a good party, but I haven't personally been in one since I'm not confident my 1k accuracy with acc food will cap my hit rate on them.

Omega/Ultima is easy enough on Normal solo sub nin. Only way you really lose is if Omega catches you with Pile Pitch in ws gear.