The Beast Within -- A Guide To Blue Mage

You might not need healer at all as BLU. Between Dream Flower and Entomb for link/crowd control, sudden lunge, occultation, and white Wind/Waltzes of /DNC, Or magic Fruit, BLU is self sustaining. Sylvie is usually enough healing support when I solo Temenos, the third trust is usually Koru merely for Dia3. I prefer seeing white Wind to handle occasional sleepgas or mass cures, but you could get away with just divine waltz for that and use the low cost Magic Fruit.

Erratic flutter comes with 15% Fast Cast, IMO invaluable and worth it even if you never use it for your own haste

BLU can also set stuff like Voracious Trunk/Osmosis to steal buffs from enemies. For example, Orc's or Yagudo (I forget which one I stole, was on DRK) Warcry is something like 8 minutes or crazy high duration and should stack with Nature's Meditation since it's Warcry and not attack bonus buff.

BLU super fun, my biggest gripe is can only multistep SC with CA when it's available (don't have prime sword). Savage > Expiacion is fine

I only switched to Sylvie a week ago and she isn't very eager to cure. You might also be talking from a tizona perspective, which I don't have and hence don't have as much mp.

The most fun I've had so far was going BRD/DNC and RDM/DNC but there's times I can't be bothered to 2box so I'm thinking about blu, but then it might not even be that much better than RDM?

That is true, Tizona is mostly necessary for self sustaining healer, unless you set Magic Hammer like the old days and steal mana. You could drop Koru for Monberaux, he uses Ethers and will heal you faster than Sylvie. I'm not sure what's up with her AI; She won't immediately cure you when you enter yellow unless she literally has nothing else to do. Once you get to like 50-60%, she will use cure 4, but her real issue is she will never use a lower tier cure if she has the MP to cover c4, even if c4 is on timer. So she will cure you once, then have a very long recast timer on her next cure 4, basically sitting there doing nothing. The only time she'll use cure 3, 2, 1, is if her MP can only support those tiers. I've found that if I'm depending on her for cures exclusively, I'm dead. But between her and Koru, they usually can handle that, so long as I'm not getting wailed on by multiple enemies.

I don't have Monberaux either, or Ygnas, really lazy/refuse to be forced to jump through the hoops with the time constraints. Using Cherukiki to heal mostly now and even she's reluctant to heal unless you go under 60%.

Do you think BLU would be stronger/faster than RDM? Both equally top geared except no REMA swords.

BLU definitely stronger/faster/safer. Just by virtue of not needing to call Ulmia or Joachim for Marches, BLU is better. Self-capping haste is huge, leaves room for Qultada, Koru (Dia3) and Sylvie for fury/frailty. You throw up Nature's Meditation, one Box Step, and Tenebral Crush, and you're going to hit a lot harder than RDM can. RDM can't use Sylvie for Fury/frailty, so the extra trust slot they gain from having their own Haste2/Dia 3 is irrelevant since you still need a second buffer. RDM also won't be able to control crowds like BLU can. They can use Excenmille {S} for his Stag's Call, but that's still not close to the attack advantage BLU would have.

Temper II is good, especially if the BLU doesn't have AM3 to compete, but you're in the same dps situation as BLU with not being able to self SC unless you use Mpu and Ruthless x3? I think running into a pack of mobs, hitting them with Tenebral Crush > Entomb > Stunlock and then spamming Savage Blade is the simplest way to solo farm with Occultation up. Whereas RDM can only single bind/sleep and it would take longer to kill, and would probably need to heal in between attacks or use a healer trust to not get wrecked.

BLU all day IMO.

Completely forgot that Sylvie won't even do frailty with RDM.

I'm not even sure you can Tenebral Crush every mob without tizona either though, maybe if you can do it to all mobs at once then sleep them each floor.

The 130 mobs have very low magic evasion, so it should be able to land. I just pull a group to a "safe" spot, then Dream Flower them. Then reapply Occultation > Tenebra Crush > Dream Flower, or something similar. I may later break sleep with an Entomb so I can fully neutralize the adds the entire time I'm fighting something. Tenebral Crush may need to be reapplied. If you don't think that is safe to do, downgrade to Sweeping Gouge or Frightful Roar (aoe non-waking defense down).

I think he's saying you won't have enough MP to cast such an expensive spell every floor.


I can post my sets but they won't be in azure sets format.

CleavingMelee with some supportCruel JokeHard/supported DDFeather TickleBumba V25Ongo KI#1Mboze Melee
They may not be 100% optimized, but at least a jumping-off point you can adjust to your liking.

I misunderstood then. Anyways, Magic Hammer solves that problem for the most part. Nearly every monster type in Temenos has native MP, or a caster in the group. Pots, Aerns, Beastmen, Arcana etc. You'd cast Tenebral Crush on the group though, not individual monsters, but like I said, there's a couple other lower potency defense down options that can be used instead that are far less MP if that's an issue.