Bubble Trouble: A Geomancer Guide

But it won't, unless you're holding TP until over 2k. Only at 2k TP does Stage 5 begin to break even with Aeonic R15.

What are people doing occult wise on Aminon if anything?

What nuke?
What set?

Recently taken over dual boxing geo on 9boss and trying to get a little more DPS out of GEO

I really only do Impact, my team's TP management can't really accomodate thundara III too, but that would be my second occult spell if I were to use it.

For Impact, since GEO is lower on the totem pole of damage needing to be done, I still have my pet DT stuff in casting set, so it looks like this for impact.

ItemSet 401372

Cape is a melee cape with STP

If you wanted to do full TP gain I'd swap to:
combatant's torque
Any of alabaster earring R30, telos earring, crepuscular earring
merlinic dastanas with Occult Acumen
merlinic crackows with Occult Acumen

For Thundara III
merlinic hood with Occult Acumen
merlinic jubbah with Occult Acumen

Impact, Blizzara & Thundara III (most expensive GEO spells). Impact only difference is swapping out the cloak for head/body slot.


I basically rotate 3-5 spells, depending on what is on cooldown: Absorb-TP, Impact, Aspir 2 or 3 (MP), Blizzara III and Thundara III. If I am fast, I throw up an Absorb-MND/STR before an Impact so I can gain extra stats. Consume Mana often requires me to refill MP, so the Aspirs are handy. Entrust STR/MND at start and after a RD reset.

I also don't wear any Pet -DT% gear for the bubble during Aminon (or really any of the bosses), neither do I use Idris for it either, because I've never had it die once. I use GEO-Fury behind the party, and Indi-Frailty on myself. Even when I do it in reverse (Indi-Fury and GEO-Frailty), between Dematerialize, Life Cycle, RD and WC resets, it's always alive and never been in any threat of danger (assuming you stand at max distance). But as Shadowmeld mentioned, GEO's damage is paltry in the grand scheme. I just personally like pushing myself to improve where I can since GEO can either be incredibly boring or very busy/engaging as a job, and I just prefer the latter.

Hi.. I'm sure this question may be answered somewhere in this thread, but I just dont have the time nor patience to look through 80 pages of text to find it. SOO.. I'm gonna ask here.. I JUST got Idris for my Geo (multiboxer) and I'm trying to figure out exactly which sets the idris goes into (using sel's gs). So far i just replaced my Solstice with Idris. But after looking at the gearswap itself.. There's several other places that it looks like it "could" be. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

As far as geomancy goes, and unsure of what you name your sets in your gearswap, In your geomancy and indi midcast set, as well as in your bubble out pet idle set.

If its r15 and you're using it for magic acc then it will go into some other midcast sets such as enfeebling and what not.

Awesome thanks!

I used to play with someone a few years ago, who was insistent that you don't need to Idle in Idris for the Geomancy+ effect ...is that true? >.>;;;

It's for cast only, once the bubble is set the only thing idris is adding is the DT-

You idle in it for the pet DT, not the geomancy (you don't have to idle in geomancy gear, it's potency is applied on cast with your midcast set)

Wasn't sure if you were joking so serious answer.

To provide a non-serious (but someone will argue a niche for it and I know what it is already) answer: obviously, you keep Idris on in case another GEO uses Entrust on you.

https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/Category:Geomancy#Spells