The Beast Within -- A Guide To Blue Mage

Meh for Assim.Shalwar. Stick to Hagondes since it can have like 50+ total MAB on it and 10M.dmg. Those stats also help for Sanguine Blade as well.

Isn't the Hagondes body going to be better for requiescat than Iuitl? Even with 2% DA aug on iuitl it looks to me like it is still better. Also for requiescat, is cheruski needle the best option? Isn't anything with mnd going to outperform that?

Technically Aqua Sachet should beat Cheruski needle for Requiescat, but 3 STR/2 DEX is so close it's not really worth carrying specifically for that. Also, anytime attack is low enough or accuracy is uncapped, needle wins anyway.

After thinking about working on Tizona, I've come to the realization that I don't give it as much credit as it really deserves; it's one of the better, possible one of the best, mythics if you really think about it.

BLU's got several advantages over other jobs when it comes to AM management. Not on the level of DRG or something, mind you, but advantages over something like PUP or the like...

-Excellent TP gain due to high multiattack and store TP; the second hand having lots of multiattack along with the AM-enhanced mainhand is great.

-When other jobs hit 300TP too early, all they can really do is sit there and wait for AM to wear off or risk being too late to reapply. If BLU hits 300TP too early, we've got a few more options; physical spells, buffs, debuffs are all better when you're sitting around without gaining TP. The MP restoration from Tizona will help offset the costs.

-Significant effect on offhand attack and accuracy, although that's just a passive effect that any weapon would grant; being able to offhand Buramenk'ah is quite nice.


It doesn't entirely change my outlook or objective ranking of the sword, however it is quite underrated.

I've been enjoying it for delve related content. I build TP on fodder on the way to an NM and when we reach the NM I have aftermath that should last the full duration of the fight. Don't have to set battery charge or auto-refresh for any spells that I cast and have additional macc for stun.

getting access to CDC and Requiescat opens up a lot of possibilities for Tizona that it didn't have before. How does a 300TP expacion stand up damage wise?

Well if figures on Tizona's proc rate are correct, you're looking at about 270mp/minute for every 100DPS that you do, equivalent to around 13.5MP/tic. Pretty ridiculous. Even at the lowest end you'd be looking at at least 7MP/tic.


Expiacion is ***. That's the only downside to the whole sword.

I'm guessing the MP conversion doesn't work in the offhand.

No, only the tizona's normal melee hits can do it afaik. if it proc'd on main hand WS hits and physical spells... oh man.

MP seemed to be a passing thought the last time I played BLU, unless you're spamming physical spells for some reason, I never noticed hurting for MP.

Looking at my logs for the new BCNM(Hardest difficulty) and delve boss from last night, it does around 2,000 ~ 4,00 on avg with full buffs at 300tp. Had some high spikes of 5k on twitherym boss and low end 800 on Shark (although did 3.4k to him that same fight.)

well like I said, you'd want to use physical spells until AM wears if you reach 300TP too early, so MP would be useful at that point. also things like chapuli would benefit from it.

You do have a point on the building 300TP too early thing, it's the most frustrating thing having to sit there and just swing for 10+ seconds when you get a good round of multihit.

also they should totally make AM3 work on blue magic. triple attack heavy strike would be stupid

then you could miss 3 instead of just 1

Nature's Meditation doesn't follow the same enmity pattern as other more "recent" buff spells; 0CE 320VE.

Maybe it would actually land for once.
/badumtish

What's this building to AM3? Applicable to Tizona wielders only or am I missing something? Sorry I'm kinda behind on the times and just getting back since Februrary (still QQing that my Almace is the sux now). Before, I thought it was always more beneficial to just spam WS and keep up the AM1 except in VW where you could keep up AM3 easily enough via temps.

They're talking about Tizona only, yes.

Thanks

Rending Deluge and Tempestuous Upheaval appear to share the same benefit as Regurgitation and Corrosive Ooze, however I need to finish testing to be able to say 100%.

What's a good spell set for Delve?

I've never gone to delve so I'm wondering if there are any certain spells I should take or drop from the normal all out DD set posted on the front. Doing Ceizak if that impacts the spell selection.

Yes.

Erm, Assim. Charuqs don't somehow make Kavuk any better.

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Assim feet have reasonable stats, and my testing is showing +20 DMG, Doctorugh also posted some data on BG wiki that shows as +20 Damage.

Mavi has NOTHING other than the Base D, these have Base D and STR+8 DEX +15

Next best option is either Iuitl or Manibozho which are again similar, STR +10 dex+19 (Iuitl) or STR+10 Dex+8 (Mani)

The only major factor would be Accuracy from manibozho would factor in more heavily with Spells with low Accuracy like Heavy Strike, or sinlge hit spells. Or if you were fighting High end content.

But yes, Assim. Charuqs are the best piece 95% of the time.

With reference to the Mavi Hat, its 20D vs the bonuses of Whirlpool, which beat the base 20 D by a considerably margin and would still continue to do so with Assim. Charuqs.

EDIT**

This is because they stack but do not Augment each other (so its not +20D x 1.2 or w.e it would just be +40 D vs +20 D and STR+24 DEX +20 Agi+20 VIT+22 etc). Whirlpool still wins.

We will need to see how the 115 versions work on CA though for a conclusive account. I would assume it would still be exactly the same.

ilvl 119 Feet will be epic.

Aqua Sachet is useful for more than just Requiescat. But I guess an 80-slot inventory isn't getting any bigger =/

commonly the reason gear sets for blu are slightly less than optimal.