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Which are your "Ugh!!!" Spells?
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By Asura.Thanquol 2011-06-27 12:04:25
Thanks everyone.
I was worried that I was too high in level to learn certain spells.
I will just spam spells to level up my blue magic skills, and little like leveling Summoning, Enhancing, and Healing.
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By Bismarck.Faelar 2011-06-27 12:32:15
Asura.Tamoa said: It's affected by your Blue Magic skill level, yes. To be able to learn a spell, your skill can be a maximum of 30 points below the cap for the level when you can use said spell. Here's a website I found (and still find) very useful: http://173.192.108.24/~tforum/blu/BLUMain.html You'll find a lot of information about all spells there, lowest level to learn them etc etc. Also, get your AF hands! Body might help aswell. I keyed blu from 42 to 78 myself, but running around learning spells after that quickly got my skill capped. Start with some lower level spells, spam low damage spells on the mob and you will skill up while learning new spells. That's what I did anyway. (Edited: typo)
That site is my Blue Mage bible. I really want to email whoever hosts it witha lot of updates for it! This site is fantastic for BLU's
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By Ragnarok.Marquiss 2011-06-28 06:41:34
magic fruit was terrible, at one point I was questioning whether opo's could use it or not.
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By Ramuh.Austar 2011-06-28 06:46:17
Any that takes more than one attempt, seriously.
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By Shiva.Superdan 2011-06-28 06:53:42
I remember the days when levelling blu was difficult D;
And I totally agree with poison breath. That pissed me off to no end. Frenetic rip was terrible too, I was solo'ing it on T imps in the mire at Lv60ish and I just couldn't break their damn horns.
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By Cerberus.Kvazz 2011-06-28 07:10:16
Asura.Thanquol said: Thanks everyone.
I was worried that I was too high in level to learn certain spells.
I will just spam spells to level up my blue magic skills, and little like leveling Summoning, Enhancing, and Healing.
It skills up alot faster if you use offensive spells, just fyi.
But yeah, good luck on your blue maging!
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By Asura.Calatilla 2011-06-28 07:17:41
Ragnarok.Marquiss said: magic fruit was terrible, at one point I was questioning whether opo's could use it or not.
I had that problem with Magic Barrier, the eyes just refused to use it. Must have taken me about a week of on/off attempts before I finally got it.
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By Bismarck.Faelar 2011-06-28 11:51:52
I can't find help to learn spells, so I look for alternatives in Abyssea. I spent last night soloing some spells in a few zones, and heres my records on them. Also, I am very weird. I screenshot my log everytime I learn a spell. I have all spells level 12 and up logged XD
(WARNING: large spoiler!!)
Abyssea-Konschtat
[Shadow Lizard] Infrasonics: 1/7
[Highland Rafflesia] Seedspray: 1/15
[Gunge Slug] Corrosive Ooze: 1/1 (Thank God)
[Mesa Wivre] Demoralizing Roar: 1/2
[Licorice] Amplification: 1/1 (Again, thank God lol)
[Highland Treant] Leafstorm: 1/1
[Tonberry Bedeviler] Light of Penance: 1/1

(After joining a group who killed the 2 Tonberry NMs and getting 1 shotted by Everyone's Grudge hehe)
Abyssea-Vunkerl
[Clammy Imp] Frenetic Rip: 1/1 (Woo!)

YAY JUNGLE COVER!
[Pneumaflayer] Mind Blast: 1/3
[Gruesome Gargouille] Triumphant Roar: 1/1
[Morose Marid] Voracious Trunk: 1/1
Abyssea-Tahrongi
[Bog Body] Animating Wail: 1/5

They do not seem to use Spinal Cleave :/
[Wiederganger] Memento Mori: 1/2

Sleepga 2 fun.
[Nematocera] Cimicine Discharge: 1/3

Tide went off and soloed 2 Gnats, didnt realize til after I got the spell lol. Apparently got it off one of the ones he/she killed.
Abyssea-La Thiene
[Luison] Plenilune Embrace: 1/1
[Crepuscule Puk] Zephyr Mantle: 1/4
[Veld Clionid] Acrid Stream: 1/3
Still trying Maelstrom, my biggest headache of a spell to learn. 0/34 on it so far.
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By Asura.Calatilla 2011-06-28 11:59:03
I got Maelstrom 1/1 in Sea Serpent Grotto.
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By Bismarck.Faelar 2011-06-28 12:01:57
Asura.Calatilla said: I got Maelstrom 1/1 in Sea Serpent Grotto.
I've tried Purgonogo Isle, Onzozo, Sea Serpent Grotto, and Abyssea-Vunkerl. I don't seem to have any luck with it :/
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By Asura.Wordspoken 2011-06-28 12:17:33
I'll never forget the horror that was learning Self-Destruct. Occultation gave me trouble too, Frenetic Rip as well since tried to learn it 60ish.
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By Bismarck.Faelar 2011-06-28 12:22:53
Asura.Wordspoken said: I'll never forget the horror that was learning Self-Destruct. Occultation gave me trouble too, Frenetic Rip as well since tried to learn it 60ish.
I did Self-Destruct in Gusgen Mines, 1/15, 2 hours ><
Occultation took an an hour or so, 1/5.
By Eluveitie 2011-06-28 13:20:38
Metallic body, diamondhide, self destruct, magic fruit, vertical cleave(still don't have it btw) hysteric barrage
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By Shiva.Rownin 2011-06-28 18:16:47
Mind Blast took me several days to learn, Occultation took about an 1 for me, mob kept using it but, it took all my multi-hit spells to eat through the shadow to kill it >.<. Triuphant Roar took a few days...mob would start flying instead of using the spell.
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By Bismarck.Faelar 2011-06-28 18:18:52
FINALLY got Maelstrom! /happydance
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By Asura.Darkestdream 2011-06-28 18:33:02
Diamond Hide. Seriously, just doesn't want to be learned. Occultation was a huge pain too.
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By Asura.Eeek 2011-06-28 18:41:19
Leviathan.Alkalinejoe said: Quad. Continuum/Auroral Drape
Oh and Head Butt. Took me about 2 hours before realizing it came from Quadavs and not Mandies, then went to go learn it from the ones in konschtat and went like 1/3. >__>
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who did that. -.-;
I thought it'd be fun to level BLU without doing any spell research (leveled solo so that others would not be affected by my gimptastic fun). Yeah...still missing some spells, but I did luck into some of the better spells and hunted down the other good ones.
On topic: Metallic Body and Healing Breeze can kiss my ***!
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By Cerberus.Kaht 2011-06-29 10:14:25
Winds of Promyvion and Reaving Wind
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By Fenrir.Leoheart 2011-06-29 10:19:59
Asuran claws was annoying to get.
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By Odin.Blazza 2011-06-29 10:27:26
Asura.Darkestdream said: Diamond Hide. Seriously, just doesn't want to be learned. Occultation was a huge pain too. Make sure you're killing the right trolls. Lamia, Mamool Ja and Trolls all have two spells each, but they're split really weirdly. Even though all mobs in each family can use both spells, you can only learn each spell from certain members of that family. Like, Tail Slap is only from merrows and Hysteric Barrage is only from lamia, or maybe it's one from mage types one from melee types, something like that.
And to the guy that said bog bodies don't use spinal cleave, make sure you have the conditions right, because they're seriously *** stupid conditions. They have to have their main weapon broken, but NOT pulled out their second weapon that's holstered on their back yet. So HELP I AM TRAPPED IN 2006 PLEASE SEND A TIME MACHINE.
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By Quetzalcoatl.Kyrial 2011-06-29 11:28:14
I've heard tons of horror stories about people who tried BLU and just gave up because they just could not learn any spells to start off, but thankfully, that didn't happen to me. I remember Metallic Body seemed like it took awhile, but in lieu of later spells, it doesn't seem that bad at all. XD
-Healing Breeze: Soloed dhalmels trying to learn this from 14 (just about 15) all the way to almost 16 before learning it. This being long before FoV or the exp boosts or anything, of course (I leveled BLU shortly after it came out).
-Claw Cyclone: First of all, this spell irritates me because up until this points, there's always mobs around your level that you can learn it from BEFORE the level you can use it. I was the type of BLU who refused to get a level without already have the spells for that level learned, even if they were useless. I had to get someone to tank tigers for me, because at 19 or lower, there are no tigers that won't kick your ***. And then they just did NOT want to use it.
-Grand Slam: Repeat of Healing Breeze. Soloed EM-T giants in Qufim from barely 29 to almost 30 before I learned it.
-MP Drainkiss: Too damn many TP moves. Stupid leeches.
-Self-Destruct: Worst one ever for me. Went 1/51 on it, and that's only counting the bombs I managed to get to use it. x.x
-I seem to remember one of the Troll spells taking a long time too... forget if it was Enervation or Diamondhide, but I think it was Diamondhide.
-Winds of Promyvion: was 1/7 on it (which is my worst record of any of the post-75 spells, to be honest), but it took like 1.5-2 hours for those 7 mobs, because they refused to friggin use it. >_>
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By Ramuh.Austar 2011-06-29 11:30:08
Odin.Blazza said: Asura.Darkestdream said: Diamond Hide. Seriously, just doesn't want to be learned. Occultation was a huge pain too. Make sure you're killing the right trolls. Lamia, Mamool Ja and Trolls all have two spells each, but they're split really weirdly. Even though all mobs in each family can use both spells, you can only learn each spell from certain members of that family. Like, Tail Slap is only from merrows and Hysteric Barrage is only from lamia, or maybe it's one from mage types one from melee types, something like that.
And to the guy that said bog bodies don't use spinal cleave, make sure you have the conditions right, because they're seriously *** stupid conditions. They have to have their main weapon broken, but NOT pulled out their second weapon that's holstered on their back yet. So HELP I AM TRAPPED IN 2006 PLEASE SEND A TIME MACHINE. Bog body don't get their weapons broke. None of the abyssea mobs change form or weapon break, etc.
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By Valefor.Houppelande 2011-06-29 11:47:29
Sub-Zero Smash took me probably 10 game hours. But for the most part they were all not too bad.
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By Bismarck.Faelar 2011-06-29 21:39:31
Warm-up is currently giving me hell >.> 0/22, almost getting up to my Maelstrom record.
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By Valefor.Prothescar 2011-06-30 01:08:44
Ramuh.Austar said: Odin.Blazza said: Asura.Darkestdream said: Diamond Hide. Seriously, just doesn't want to be learned. Occultation was a huge pain too. Make sure you're killing the right trolls. Lamia, Mamool Ja and Trolls all have two spells each, but they're split really weirdly. Even though all mobs in each family can use both spells, you can only learn each spell from certain members of that family. Like, Tail Slap is only from merrows and Hysteric Barrage is only from lamia, or maybe it's one from mage types one from melee types, something like that.
And to the guy that said bog bodies don't use spinal cleave, make sure you have the conditions right, because they're seriously *** stupid conditions. They have to have their main weapon broken, but NOT pulled out their second weapon that's holstered on their back yet. So HELP I AM TRAPPED IN 2006 PLEASE SEND A TIME MACHINE. Bog body don't get their weapons broke. None of the abyssea mobs change form or weapon break, etc.
I'm pretty sure I've broken imps horns before, causing them to use Frenetic Rip. Could be wrong.
By Artemicion 2011-06-30 01:13:09
You BLUs should make a thread on the official forums to call for an animation or at least color change for chat log for when spells are learned. I can't recall how many times I've farmed spells for hours on end, and probably spent 30-60+ minutes farming a spell I had already learned because of battle spam going through my log and sometimes simple oversight.
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By Ramuh.Laffter 2011-06-30 02:35:48
Artemicion said: You BLUs should make a thread on the official forums to call for an animation or at least color change for chat log for when spells are learned. I can't recall how many times I've farmed spells for hours on end, and probably spent 30-60+ minutes farming a spell I had already learned because of battle spam going through my log and sometimes simple oversight. Most BLUs pay extremely close attention to the log while farming spells. :P
By Artemicion 2011-06-30 02:42:10
Ramuh.Laffter said: Artemicion said: You BLUs should make a thread on the official forums to call for an animation or at least color change for chat log for when spells are learned. I can't recall how many times I've farmed spells for hours on end, and probably spent 30-60+ minutes farming a spell I had already learned because of battle spam going through my log and sometimes simple oversight. Most BLUs pay extremely close attention to the log while farming spells. :P
Guess I'm not a career BLU then.
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By Ramuh.Laffter 2011-06-30 02:53:16
It should be instinctive as soon as you know you can see it in the chatlog. :3
After something uses its move, I kill and then my eyes shift instantly to the log.
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By Odin.Blazza 2011-06-30 03:55:39
Nah, I've missed learning spells too, it often appears several lines before player killed X mob line and you only realise after hitting ctrl M that it's there at the bottom. I simply got into the habit of hitting ctrl M fairly often to double check instead.
Every Blue Mage has a small handful of spells that are/were a bit*h to learn. Post which you had the biggest headache obtaining or are still trying to get.
Mine so far are:
Maelstrom (just cant learn it! ugh!)
Auroral Drape (took 40 mobs to learn)
Heat Breath (they have way too many TP moves)
Metallic Body (took a week to get)
Wild Carrot(they didnt want to use it)
Feather Barrier (see above)
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