The Beast Within -- A Guide To Blue Mage

if you use blu where it's practical and job change where it's not, the vast majority of those sets do nothing for you

Lol'd so hard at those sets.

"less dependent on the support jobs than other DDs"

BLU/DNC? OK, take a subjob that's going to gimp your DD output and show a parse where somebody beat you to prove BLU isn't the best DD! Yup, totally scientific!

Ugh, some really bad use of parsing above...

Bandwagon blu or career blu, both will/should get value out of this thread. Arguing over it is pissing in the wind.

And this is what bandwagon blu's do. You will never know the troubles of building physical casting sets tailored to the spell.

I have quite a few sets and I'm pretty sure I'm missing some.

Physical casting max potency
Physical casting acc
physical casting Macc
Magical casting macc
magical casting MAB macc
MAB max casting
magical casting earth MAB
magical casting light MAB
magical casting dark MAB
blue skill max
fast cast
TP melee max haste
TP melee acc
tp melee DW
PDT/DT
MDT/DT
healing self
healing others
Conserve MP
CDC
Requiscat
Expansion
Savage
CA
BA
enhancing magic skill for that /rdm
idle
idle w/ movement speed
PDT w movement speed
TH
about 5 lockstyles LOL.

Now if this was before ilvls you would also have.

Physical casting STR
Physical casting DEX
Physical casting AGI
Physical casting STR/DEX
Physical casting STR/INT
Physical Casting STR/VIT
Physical casting STR/VIT/Defense

So before you go around calling other people bad/no idea how to play blu look at your own blu and ask yourself do I have sets other than CDC/TP/MAB and if you dont STFU. We are playing blu to the maximum of its abilities and have sets to aid in that, are they needed for a lolbandwagonblu? no, do they make soloing/low manning things you cant easier? yes they do.

How does one fit all those sets on one set of 20 macros?

One fits them all in a single text file.

Interesting in one case you say less dependent on support jobs yet criticize so hard for /dnc. And if blu is as good as you're saying I shouldn't need /war to win should I?

Well, feel free to show some testing of your own if you have an AG Tizona/Almace blu and don't like the way I went about it. It's easy to sit back and simply make claims.

That is very true.

Why would you post a parse of an Ambuscade fight? They take less than 2 minutes total to clear, and 30 seconds is spent not even engaging the mob while buffs are being applied at the start. By all means, I get your point that other jobs like AG SAM and AG THF can compete in damage with an AG BLU, but a 1 min 30 sec Ambuscade isnt very accurate considering the parse shifts drastically depending on who gets in that last WS.

Not all of us, use gearswap or whatever it's called.

How does one fit all those sets on one set of 20 macros?

That was exactly my point <.<

I honestly don't know how blu's can't use all those sets most are pretty much needed.

Don't need gearswap to use more than 20 sets.....just flip the page and group them together.

I honestly don't know how blu's can't use all those sets most are pretty much needed.

Damn, i really need to make a conserve mp set, for when i haste myself as /rdm while doing nothing.

Not to mention those physical sets 3k spell is so much better than a 30k cdc.

How we flip books without going to the menu?

Don't need gearswap to use more than 20 sets.....just flip the page and group them together.

No.... each "book" has space for more than 20 macros.

I am aware of that, but the question was for 20 macros. Anyway, do you realize how detrimental that would be to your overall performance? Unless you are crazy fast with your fingers and have near perfect eye-hand coordination, you would keep wasting WS damage for flipping through the macro sets considering how fast you get TP.

I would rather make specific sets of 20 macros for different events rather than 6 lines of macros to cover every possible situation and honestly, even the former sounds pretty overwhelming to me, let alone the latter...

I mean how we flip to the next set of 20 macros without going to the menu?

I mean how we flip to the next set of 20 macros without going to the menu?

I mean how we flip to the next set of 20 macros without going to the menu?

You just push up or down when you turn on the macro interface. Every book has 10 lines of 10 macros.

So I just got samnuha tights with 1 ta away from being perfect, twice.. Is it still worth using them or should I stick with 4 ta herc/taeon

Shameless bump on my Q as it got buried in the previous arguments

Talked with Draylo for a minute (you know because he is always AFK) about phalanx and barrier tusk. Decided to make a chart to compare the values of the two.
Highest obtainable enhancing is 190 with phalanx taeon for BLU/RDM. Every +10 skill is +1 phalanx damage reduction.


Feel free to double check my math.
190 enh with +15 augments should come out to -32 unless I am an idiot.


Oh, and stop with the last couple pages "OP BLU", "Bandwagon BLU", "Look at my ambuscade parses with mspaint I uploaded twice over...BLU isn't OP", etc.

Look like a buncha dopes. :P