The Beast Within -- A Guide To Blue Mage

You should be fine. You can make it easier on yourself with a few things. Prebuff verve or have A SIRD Dream Flower set. Hippomenes Socks for flee proc in idle set. Can diamondhide beforehand for extra defense. Cocoon+Ice Spikes or Reactor Cool. Occultation. Phalanx as mentioned. Pull two packs, sleep if you need to, or subduction to create space between you and the mob. Rebuff. Pull more. Scouring Spate if you need additional defense vs your targets. Then begin your rotation (Entomb, Spectral Floe, Tenebral Crush etc). Can add more packs as you get more comfortable.

thanks, yeah i need lucky range for Phallanx

rest i can defo do, awesome, ty

Is Adhemar (head, body and hands) still the best option for a standard TP set (where -DT is not heavily required, in which case I'll just aim for Malignance)?

So with af+4 how is this set looking for TP drain (feather tickle/reaving wind)


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With capped magic haste this hits 19sec I believe? 1sec below cap recast for a sizeable amount of macc gain? Light earring would be alabaster of course to cap gear haste/Macc with aug.

Also do we know if INT has anything to do with blue tp drain spell accuracy.

i went with aurist cape/af+4 legs/ and regal earring.

Feel like AF4 legs aren't the play due to lower base magic acc on top of the loss of the large 33 blue skill on emp legs.

Body is an obvious large gain due to set bonus and the added blue skill on top, likewise helm seems like a good option due to large macc paired with body to enable set bonus, alternative being carmine head for a magic acc hit but gets you that additional 1 sec off cd.

Feet idk, larger magic acc with the set bonus but they have zero INT on them, not sure if int matters.

Ambu cape is because this set isn't using carmine head or relic body so needs a fast cast piece to hit 19seconds, still able to get 30macc/20int on it as well so pretty nice.

Assume even +1 JSE earring with the blue skill and aug is more macc than regal earring with set bonus unless INT plays a big part in magic acc for blue spells. With r15 alabaster earring giving 15macc on top of capping gear haste.

i did it (legs/earring) purely for the set bonus from your 30 to my 60.

Assume you are saying you went af+4 legs/regal earring on top of head/body/feet for the total set bonus of 60 with regal earring?

So that would be:

Assim legs +4 + regal earring = INT53, Macc89 (30 from set bonus x2 added in)

vs

Emp+3 legs + JSE+1 earring = INT48, MACC75, Blue skill +44.

+5INT, +14Macc for a loss of 44 blue magic skill. Seems worse.

sigh. never said anything about jse+1 earring. if so i would have said jse+2. No, i dont have a fully cappped out alabaster, in fact, i dont know of anyone on my server is even close to one. Just trying to work with gear that I have.

i do like the fact that you posted a gear set for ft/rw most gearsets hadnt looked at the af+4 stuff, all of which have really high macc then the af+3.

Not attacking you or anything was merely looking to discuss options.

Should be noted that alabaster main purpose was for the 5% gear haste to cap you, as well as rank10-15 providing 10-15macc which seems reasonable at the moment, def wasn't considering a fully augmented earring (or anywhere close).

Was just saying it appears emp+3 legs are still the ideal leg piece over af+4, regardless of earring choices, as even with +15 from the set bonus they fall short of the added skill provided by emp+3 legs.

That's a good set.

Another thing to consider would be to upgrade your FC job trait to tier III (either through BLU spells or going /RDM). Creating a specific BLU spellset for fights like Mboze where TP draining is important wouldn't be a bad idea in general. If so, Sakpata's Sword, Hashishin Bazubands +3, and Kishar Ring would be enough to cap your recast at 18 seconds with capped gear/magic haste. That way you can swap in the Null Shawl for a bit of extra MAcc (also you wouldn't need to take up an inventory slot for a MAcc/FC ambu cape).

Unfortunately, I don't think anyone has done the testing to determine whether any of the base stats like INT have an effect on blue magic accuracy. I would love to be wrong on this, though, if I just haven't seen the testing yet.

In a similar vein, I'm not sure what impact blue skill has on TP draining aside from just the added magic accuracy. The Sakpata's Sword can be swapped to the Zomorrodnegar, the Kishar Ring can be swapped back to a Stikini Ring +1, and the Carmine Mask +1 can be used for FC. This would similarly cap your recast time assuming a FC III trait, with about the same amount of total MAcc, assuming that blue skill translates 1:1. However, there would be a decent shift towards blue skill over regular magic accuracy. This could potentially be better if blue skill is extra beneficial for some reason, but I don't think anyone knows for sure.

Not like /rdm is going to work in there but with Erratic Flutter set you get FCIII with 1200 gift anyway.

Sure, obviously I didn't mean /RDM for the Odyssey NM fights- maybe something like the Ultima/Omega MT or any other content where TP draining is important. I mentioned making a spellset for Mboze because /RDM wasn't an option.

As for the FC trait, BLU has that weird Tier 0 FC thing going for it (unless BG Wiki's wrong). So, Erratic Flutter would only get you FC II, you'd need a couple more spells set to hit FC III.

Ah yeah I see, never really looked at the FC trait tiers for a very long time. Had to do a little digging for the testing looks like it got nerfed in the may 2011 update. So it was 10% then got lowered to 5%.