The Beast Within -- A Guide To Blue Mage

I use the head/body, other parts are - inventory for me at the moment.

It definitely helps, thank you for all the great advice. I was worried I'd join again and be like a chicken with its head cut off not knowing what to do. The only support job I currently have is scholar. Is it still at all desired after the huge Tabula Rasa nerfs? Again, thanks, and I'm going to have to seriously consider coming back and putting in a lot of work.

The feet are quite good- I don't understand how that could be overlooked.

The boots are best Requescat feet. Also best for different physical spells too. Legs are best for some physical spells (see below). Hands, as you said, for TP... also good for CDC.

Helm is good for monster correlation crap for physical uses.

Body, hands, and boots have multiple uses so good inventory savers while still being fairly optimal. Legs and Helm you can do without and it won't really gimp you much. That orb for helm is cheap though, so guess it depends what other jobs you want helm for.

As for legs, I guess it depends how often you use Glutinous Dart, Quad. Continuum, Delta Thrust, Empty Thrash, Quadrastrike, and Amorphic Spikes and how interested you are in maximizing their damage.

Scholar is still used for stuns mostly. Also a great job for doing Yorcia Skirmish. Both of these require a good ilvl staff though so that your magic accuracy/damage is sufficient. BG Wiki is definitely going to be your best source of info in getting what you need. Be sure to check out the quests required for Watercrafting, Climbing, etc so that you can gain access to all the different SoA areas.

Orbs are used for the head.

Woops. Thanks. Fixed

So dunno which tp set up I should be using atm I have:

Iuitl head, legs, feet, thaumas body, espial hands abd windbuffet.

Should I swap to thur+1 head and twilight belt? Also using brutal/suppa if that makes any difference.

Alright, I'll get to reading then. Again, thanks for all the help. Hopefully I'll be able to find an LS on Sylph that could help me get started back up, or try to PuG it.

Boots best for requiescat, second best for CDC, and best for physical spells (especially with chain affinity). Legs and Head aren't very useful.



Iuitl + Windbuffet should work fine if you're tight on inventory, however until you have assimilator +1 hands Thur+1 and Twilight would be best. Right now unaugmented Iuitl is riding the line of superior to whirlpool. Once it's upgraded it will replace it unless you need the acc (assuming they don't add loads of it to iuitl).

Thanks proth and I probably will be tight on invent once I get all my sets back up and running still missing cure pot, magical and af109/119 sets. Oh invent space on blu the bane of my existence.

Does anyone have an up to date BLU XML? I've been using Yugl's but it isn't swapping gear for any of the new spells.

Uh, add them to the rules?

1 - yes. a majority of, if not all of, the things you need PDT/hybrid for for any extended periods where the differences will matter, you'll need the accuracy on lithelimb. for everything else, the difference is so absolutely miniscule that it really doesn't matter and the extra inventory space wouldn't be worth spending. this is likely to change in the upcoming update, however.

2 - depends on inventory. if I need to wear jubbah I switch to thur + twilight because I have the space in my case to carry them, but it isn't required. situations where you'd be wearing a refresh body probably won't see much difference if you lose the <1% haste

3 - it doesn't. iuitl feet are only good if they have a perfect 2% DA, and even then the difference between them and manibozho is small. legs are best regardless of DA, it's just a bonus.

Did you ever figure out or post the modifiers for Paralyzing Triad, I can't seem to find them on either wiki and they are still ??? in your guide.

How do I unlock blu ! Tried the answer on bg wiki but didn't work for me are the answer random or something or am I supposed to do something else!

Blue Mage - BG Wiki

Blue Mage - FFXIclopedia

Both have links to the quest to unlock the job. Take your pick

Yeah used those answer didn't work but thx :D

BG page
FFXIclopedia page

text from this guide

the only notation I see about it is in a .lua, I do appreciate the sarcasm, though.

It's STR/DEX, but I never finished getting % because I forgot and it was giving me trouble. It was fairly high though; high enough to give Paralyzing Triad more damage potential than Delta Thrust even without considering the fact that Paralyzing Triad makes more use of iLvl mainhand than Delta Thrust can.

http://www.bluegartr.com/threads/37619-Blue-Mage-Best-thread-ever?p=5940670&viewfull=1#post5940670

Perfect, thank you.

Should add /run to the subjob choices

Isn't the head at least useful for magical accuracy for when you need to land stun on something that's high level?

yes, but such a situation is exceedingly rare.

I haven't looked at the skirmish 3 stuff yet, but for relic...

-Body best fast cast piece outside of blue magic, possibly good for WS

-Feet astounding for CDC and non-CA physical spells, also Requiescat

-Head astounding for physical spells, possibly weaponskills



Least it gives a reason to carry the feet for Diffusion now









Pending augments, Izaatsu +2 could outdo Anahera.

Feet also best for BLU+ skill, can toss my augmented w feet now. Also a forgettable stat now but lol at 72 evasion on em.

Already? And I didn't even get one yet :(

Well, if we can still augment these with base damage, it wouldn't take a lot to beat it.