The Beast Within -- A Guide To Blue Mage

Is there any value in setting up a gear swap so if you have tizona AM3 up it switches some of your gear off TA to STP? I imagine there is probably a slight decrease in overall DPS, but if I wanna push up above roughly 100~ TP a hit (for the overflow after WS use).

Right now I have about 101 TP a hit but would be interested in being able to push that higher, simply because for post WS TP (usually lands at like 187 or something) to help fill up the gap.


Edit:
A guy messaged me in game after and we talked about it and after doing some testing It's definitely not worth dropping out on TA for like, 4-6 more TP per hit.

Someone knows if Luhlaza charuqs +3 got a more powerfull benefit on Diffusion, or if it's the same as the +1?

same according to stamos, but pretty sure none of the augments have increased effects

Short answer is no.

I generally swap for more STP when I'm capped haste. Otherwise any notable changes would hurt your DPS considerably with our current gear options. Even with capped haste, I only roll the Belt, Cape and Earrings.

I am currently using 2 Nibiru cudgels for AOE, is there a better option?

Not really.

Unless it stops you from 1 or 2 shotting, I would rate capped Vampirism as much better. 14 additional Fast Cast for spell recast is nice.

With the newest armors around, I was wondering what BiS Requiescat, CDC and Savage Blade looked like.

Whats new?

The same gear that is sitting on the front page. The only things of note added in recent months have been Relic +2/3 Feet and +2 Ayanmo - neither of which shook anything up.

Thanks, I hadn't seen any changes, so I wasn't sure if that meant no changes were necessary; or just that no one could or had bothered to update.

feet:
jhak+2: STR+25 MND+21, dex+28 acc42 att42
AF+3: STR+22 MND+22, dex+34 acc+55 attack+38, SCbonus+10
Relic+3: STR+22 MND+22, dex+34 acc+36 attack+86

Technically feet are basically like a 50ish attack upgrade for your super sweet requiescat set.(and realm) great use of funds.

all the base stats str/mnd/ect same exact values as AF+3 feet so they're basically acc -19 attack+48 vs af+3 feet:
so these are prob best for physical spells if you're using them without Chain Affinity.

again, super good use of funds.

Ilabrat ring so far as my spreadsheet is telling me is better than Epona's for CDC so I use that. Dream set still shows epona's/Begrudging. Maybe depends on what is goin on in your tp set.

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I coded mine and it werks and I <3s it.

Silly question but,

How should I be equiping for Circle Blade

Mainly asking wsd vs multiattack

nvm just realized circle on spreadsheet:
ItemSet 355710



UNRELATED: further note on relic+3 feet:
they have INT+22 (unless it's a typo in NA version). INT kind of a rare state on feet. This actually makes the relic feet very strong for Expiacion (same reason jhakri+1/+2 feet help up better than other non-hands pieces for expi vs herc str/wsd aug)

vs base herc: str+6 dex+10 int+22 acc+26 attack+76 ta-2%

Hello everyone, Been away for a year from the game and have started to come back. Been looking at the guides and I need some help.

What would be best upgrades for my current gear to help me deal with the content for hrec gear and other pieces.

TP
ItemSet 355843
Rawhide vest is on path D and he Qaaxo are rank 1 path A
CDC SC
ItemSet 355844


THx for the help ahead of time.

If you're relying on soloing with trusts and the occasional shout group for items, you're gonna need to go a lot slower than if you had a geared group of people ready to help.

First things first will be your weapons. 2x nibiru blades on Path A from Nosoi (Zitah T2) will hold you over for quite some time. Your eventual goal, barring RMEA, will be a tanmogayi +1 (Sarama, Unity) and a Colada (Ironside, Reisen T2). Weapons are top priority, and Nibiru Blades will give you a large bump in accuracy compared to your current combination, which should help ease you into higher content.

Second major priority is working on your Ambuscade capes. You should be able to do Volume two fights rather simply with shout groups, and these capes are completely irreplaceable for so many uses. First choice should be DEX/acc/atk/Crit for CDC and TP. There's a ton more you can build, but that should be your first.

I wrote a long post about gearing up about a year ago over here http://www.ffxiah.com/forum/topic/49539/new-blu-needing-advice-on-equip-sets#3202527. Your best bet would be to tackle the content you're capable of doing now and focus on the DD items so that you can come back and get your utility/magic items once you're geared up.

There's some stuff missing that might help you out, such as Taeon Tights and Boots from Yorcia Alluvion, but those require you to put in time and money on augments to make them great. They're decent stopgaps to better options, but don't bankrupt yourself on augments. If you have any other questions on pieces not mentioned or anything else, feel free to ask in the thread.

I can solo Sarama for you to help you along faster.

Mortlock, Asura

hmm might have to change to Asura.
Thx a lot, many of my old time friends don't log in anymore.

I do have the boots with +11 ACC and +2 WS acc
Don't have the hands or legs, do have the others.

I thought my Qaaxo Legs on path A were good they are lvl 1 and have a +1 attack and evasion aug on them.

My Qaaxo hands are max rank with +15 attack +2 DBL atk and evasion +15.

also have the Iuitl hands, head, Feet and had wanted to +1 them. can these help?

Don't worry about Taeon hands, just move straight to Adhemar from Ru'Aun, as they'll hold you until Herculean and there's no random augments.

Qaaxo Tights are okay but you want to replace them soon as they have zero accuracy and BLU has moved on from Double Attack to Triple Attack as the primary MA stat.

Qaaxo hands are okay for now, just get to Adhemar ASAP.

Iuitl are 100% not worth it anymore. If you have the capability of getting a Rawhide Vest, you should be able to handle Ru'Aun T1s and pick up a lot of neat toys there.

rawhide b and d in the case of body/feet are decent pickups. you can get a pair of legs and do b, then swap the augment to d later down the line too.

nq windbuffet should be a better tp belt than twilight.

for cdc itself:
The biggest upgrade would be getting fotia belt and moonshade earring (tpbonus +250). both pre-ilvl content.
For the neck also you can get fotia.

Otherwise generally yea go for rawhide stuff then move to herc.
Adhemar hands, herc feet are 2 of the more useful pieces.
Petrov Ring can go on to replace Raja.

You could do some merit fights for:
Ginsen (tp ammmo upgrade)
Cessance (solid tp ear, you don't wanna be using the red pair anymore)

Note:
When people mention -any- armor they're pretty much assuming going to rank15 fully auged is no big deal when they mention the piece.

Taeon is not worth your time and money to upgrade at the moment. When people mention it they mean near max augs (acc20/att20/strdex7/ta2%). ---although the legs actually hold up very well to modern day ***.

Is Almace AG worth it or it is absoluty blown away by mythic AG?

Wondering which weapon to upgrate. They both would Cost about the same here. +/- some millions. While one is just Trading things.
My Almace is already LV 90 so it would be "Just" getting the items while Mythic still have alot of Work where I am not sure I want to do it. Nyzul and Einherjar Points i have,but half the assaults and then all those trials. Ugh.
I will probably just slowly do one of them atm, then we do another AG for my husband. Currently i use 2 Colada.

Most people I see (myself included) are using Almace/Sequence combo (Almace/Good Colada works well also). Tizona shines when you need mp but for a straight up zerg it's probably comparable to ALmace, just different. Tizona's claim to fame is the multi attack, but it's just not as impressive now with all the multi attack we have on our gear, so ALmace may actually be a better DD option in many situations and not have to worry about using a ws other than cdc to keep up aftermath.

Now if you happened to have TIzona and Almace that's a win, but since you already have almace at 90, may as well finish it and maybe think about Tizona later. ALthough, you're just now getting into the money stage, so there's that...

I'd check into the Raetic thread. Have no information on it personally, but two LS members headed up the testing on the sword and are under the impression that coupled with Tizona it's about as good as BLU gets for shorter duration fights

Tizona's usefulness can also depend on if you will be able to maintain AM3 (fights like Onychophora are not really conducive to dropping an Expiacion in the middle of a bunch of Savage Blades). when you CAN use it, Expiacion with the buff from Tizona is (or was) about on par with Savage Blade, so we are also not talking about a "wasted" weaponskill to maintain AM3. I love mine to death, but there are times where it is just not the best weapon. I would say that for MOST situations out there, maintaining AM3 is a non-issue with how quickly you gain TP, and it completely changes the way you manage MP if you need to be casting a fair bit while you fight. if you can only do one, I would personally say go Almace, +50 DEX for both TP and WS is nice, CDC is strong and you'll likely see a more pronounced effect wielding that with a Sequence or Raetic offhand. the big thing with BLU is versatility, and we need a bit of that even down to weapon choice depending on the fights we are going into.

Personally, Tizona can be pretty OP if you gear it well.

Expiacion can out DD CDC (Issue is that it doesn't skillchain with itself, but other than that, its better DMG output than CDC).